Lectures, Podcasts, & Recent Talks
Recent Lectures & Talks
2024
April 2024, Rachel Carson Center Lunchtime Colloquium Series, Munich, Germany,“Meerkats, Long-term Research, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology.”
February 2024, Abendkolloquium, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, “Scientists, Readers, and Other Primates: Contesting Evolution in Public.”
February 2024, The Apes & Us Workshop, organized by Jessica Riskin, Caroline Winterer, and Max Fennel-Chametzky, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, “The Hydrogen Man and The Monkey.”
2023
November 2023, Dienstagskolloquium, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, “The Hyena & the Jay: Long-Term Research and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology.”
October 2023, Spaces in Between in the History of (Scientific) Knowledge, Working Group in General History of Science of the Commission for History & Philosophy of Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, “Between Places: Cultures of Fieldwork in Animal Behavior.”
May 2023, William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lecture in Science and Civilization, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, CA, “On Meerkats and Marmots: Long-term Research and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology.”
Podcasts
“Illuminations Episode 7: Mirrors of Morality”
Illuminations, Produced by Simon Brown and Maria Devlin McNair, Ministry of Ideas (19 April 2023): link.
“Erika Milam on Human Nature in Cold War America”
In Theory: The Journal of the History of Ideas Podcast, with Disha Karnad Jani (9 September 2020): link.
“Planet of the Killer Apes”
Science Friday’s Undiscovered with Annie Minoff and Elah Feder (27 November 2019): link.