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Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar

Denouncing Fascism to Save Eugenics: Apes, Men, and Earnest A. Hooton

November 19, 2024
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
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Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar

Denouncing Fascism to Save Eugenics: Apes, Men, and Earnest A. Hooton

November 19, 2024
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
Quinn Slobodian
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Quinn Slobodian
Professor of International History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Nikolas Weyland
Nikolas Weyland
Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Lauren Bohm
Lauren Bohm
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Ailish Lalor
Ailish Lalor
Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
 
November 19, 2024
3:00pm - 4:30pm
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Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions

Join Quinn Slobodian to discuss the work of Earnest A. Hooton, America’s leading physical anthropologist who discredited Nazi ideas of racial hierarchy in the 1930s to defend even more robustly his own high-profile calls for eugenics. Slobodian will analyze how Hooton countered Hitler by declaring that we were all apes—but continued to insist that some apes were more equal than others.

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