In Conversation with Dr. Surekha Davies, author of "Humans: A Monstrous History" (UC Press, 2025)

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In Conversation with Dr. Surekha Davies, author of "Humans: A Monstrous History" (UC Press, 2025)

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Surekha Davies, author of Humans: A Monstrous History (UC Press, 2025). From the UC Press website: "With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making is about control: It defines who gets to count as normal." Dr. Davies is a historian of science, art, and ideas. Her first book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human, won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history from the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History and Theology.

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