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SUMMARY:Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to 
 digital storytelling - Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan)
DTSTART:20161124T153000Z
DTEND:20161124T170000Z
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CONTACT:Nick Hopwood
DESCRIPTION:From 1909 to 1979\, California sterilized more than 20\,000 pa
 tients in state homes and hospitals. This lecture draws from new interdisc
 iplinary research into the history of sterilization\, presenting both over
 arching demographic trends that illustrate the intersectional racial\, gen
 der\, and diagnostic biases of compulsory reproductive surgery\, and the e
 xperiences of people whose lives were irrevocably changed by this medical 
 intervention. These new findings are drawn from a dataset that I and my te
 am created after digitizing more than 50\,000 microfilm documents that had
  been long forgotten in the file cabinets of state agencies in Sacramento\
 , California. This lecture asks how an in-depth interdisciplinary study of
  patterns and experiences of sterilization confirms and challenges histori
 cal understandings of eugenics\, and highlights the value of epidemiologic
 al and demographic methods in historical analysis. The presentation also p
 rovides an overview of the digital archive we are creating that will featu
 re data visualization and digital storytelling.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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