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Descartes thinking |
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Herder aging |
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Dr. Meijer’s Conference Papers: |
2012 |
“Drawings Petrus Camper Made of Specimens from his Famous Museum” | East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (E-C/ASECS) | Baltimore, MD |
2012 | invited paper “Cranial Varieties in the Human and Orang Species” | Invention of Race international conference | Lausanne, Switzerland |
2011 |
“Medical Environmentalism in Buffon’s Anthropology” | Bloodwork: The Politics of the Body 1500-1900 conference | College Park, MD |
2010 | invited paper “Bones, Law and Order in Amsterdam” | The Groninger Meteor: Petrus Camper 1722-1789 conference | Groningen, Netherlands |
2008 | “Deciphering the Politics of Petrus Camper” |
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (E-C/ASECS) | Washington, DC |
2007 | “The Collaboration Manqué: Petrus Camper’s Son at Montbard, 1785-1787” |
The Buffon Legacy international conference | Dijon, France |
2006 | invited paper “The Intersection of Race and Aesthetics in 18th-Century Anthropology” | USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI)
The Sciences of Race in the Long Eighteenth Century conference
| Los Angeles, CA |
2006 | “The Novel Aspects of Buffon’s Otherwise Classical Environmentalism” |
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) | Montreal, Canada |
2004 | “The Skin Color Debate About Adam and Eve” |
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) | Boston, MA |
2004 | “Animating Eighteenth-Century Metamorphoses” |
American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) | Washington, DC |
2003 | “Petrus Camper on Shoe Morphology” | East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS) |
Greensburg, PA |
2003 | Panel Chair of The Impact of Petrus Camper on the Republic of Letters | International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) | Los Angeles, CA |
2003 | “Paradise Moved: Science Affects Religion” |
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) |
Los Angeles, CA |
2003 | “The Sinfulness of Foreign Features: Ugliness = Unnatural” | Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) | Columbia, SC |
2003 | “The Dialectic of the Occipital Foramen” | Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) | Durham, NC |
2002 | “Petrus Camper’s Protean Performances: The Metamorphoses” | East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS) | Rosemont, PA |
2002 | “The Century of the Orangutan” | Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) | Chapel Hill, NC |
2001 | “An Ethical Heroine: Nancy Jenison, M.D.” | Ethical Society of St. Louis | St. Louis, MO |
2001 | “Petrus Camper’s Anatomy of the Passions: The Revolt against Descartes” | East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS) | Cape May, NJ |
2001 | “Up from the Cosmic Fall: Buffon’s Human Prototype” | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) | New Orleans, LA |
2000 | “Classical Statuary in the Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789)” | East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS) | Norfolk, VA |
2000 | “Anatomy and Physiology in Herder’s Ideen” | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) | Philadelphia, PA |
2000 | “Early 20th-Century Ethics in Practice: The Case of Nancy B. Jenison, M.D.” | Seminar in the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine (at NIH) | Bethesda, MD |
1999 | “The Fifth Ascent of the Mont Blanc: Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759-1820)” |
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS) | Columbia, MO |
1998 | “Biological Rhetoric in J. G. Herder” | European History Section of the Southern Historical Association (SHA) | Birmingham, AL |
1998 | “Classical Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Anthropology” | Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS) | Mackinaw City, MI |
1998 | “Biological Rhetoric in Herder’s Ideen” | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) | South Bend, IN |
1997 | “Buffon on Rhetoric and Race Formation” | CHEIRON: International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences | Richmond, VA |
1997 | “Pre-Professional Anthropology” | Capital Area Independent Scholars (CAIS), American University | Washington, DC |
1997 | “Eighteenth-Century Anthropology: Linnaeus, Buffon, Camper, and Blumenbach” | Scholars’ Colloquium Series, Library of Congress | Washington, DC |
1997 | “Buffon and Eighteenth-Century Theories of Race” | Seminar in the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine (at NIH) | Bethesda, MD |
1996 | “Buffon’s Natural Law of Race Formation” | European History Section of the Southern Historical Association (SHA) | Little Rock, AR |
1995 | “Race and Aesthetics in the Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789)” | Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) | Mobile, AL |
1994 | “Reexamining the Facial Angle Theory of Petrus Camper” | Arkansas Sociological and Anthropological Association (ASAA), Hendrix College | Conway, AR |
1994 | Panel Chair of Constructing Primates: Science, Literature, and the Boundaries of the Human | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) | Charleston, SC |
1994 | “Facial Angle Theory of Petrus Camper (1722-1789)” | History Department Faculty and Graduate Seminar, University of Central Arkansas | Conway, AR |
1992 | Participated in Travellours’ Histories: European Representations of New World Cultures seminar | Dr. Steven Mullaney (Michigan), Folger Shakespeare Library | Washington, DC |
1991 | “Petrus Camper and Eighteenth-Century Physical Anthropology” | Staff Seminar in the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine (at NIH) | Bethesda, MD |
1991 | “The Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789)” | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) | Pittsburgh, PA |
1989 | Attended Bicentennial of Petrus Camper, Museum Opening | Royal University of Groningen | Groningen, The Netherlands |
1986 | “Wij zijn alle zwarten, Petrus Camper (1722-1789) and Pre-paradigm Germanic Anthropology” | History of Science Colloquium, Royal University of Utrecht | Utrecht, The Netherlands
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