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Undergraduate Research Conference on Science, Technology, Medicine and Society: Featured Speaker 2020: Pablo F. Gomez

Keynote Speaker

Pablo F. Gomez, Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, will give the conference keynote address, titled, "Violence and Resilience: The African Diaspora and the History of Medicine and Science in the Early Modern Atlantic."   This event is free and open to the public, please contact Nahyan Fancy for online connection information; nahyanfancy@depauw.edu

More information on Gomez

https://history.wisc.edu/people/gomez-pablo-f/

Education

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, History of Medicine, Latin American History, 2010

M.A., Vanderbilt University, History, 2007

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Surgery, 2002

M.D., CES University, Medellín, Colombia, Medicine, 1994

Books

Pablo F. Gómez, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

 

Selected Articles

Pablo F. Gómez, "Caribbean Stones and the Creation of Early Modern Worlds," History and Technology 34 (2018), 11-20. Special Issue: “Thinking with the World”

Pablo F. Gómez, "Incommensurable Epistemologies? The Atlantic Geography of Healing in the Early Modern Black Spanish Caribbean," Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 44 (2014), 95-107.

Pablo F. Gómez, "The Circulation of Bodily Knowledge in the Seventeenth-century Black Spanish Caribbean," Social History of Medicine 26:3 (2013), 383-402. Awarded the 2014 Andres Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Biannual Best Article Prize by the Association of Caribbean Historians and an Honorable Mention for the Vanderwood Prize from the Conference in Latin American History (CLAH), 2014-2015.

Gomez Book Talk (2018), Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & History, UNC-Chapel Hill.