Will Abraham Tarpeh
Speaker
Stanford University
WATER FUTURES SERIES: Water, Health and Law
Date and Time
December 9, 2026
12:00PM - 01:30PM EST
Location
Virtual
Interpretation to Spanish available.
This session will focus on the convergence of health and law in relation to water. Question to address include:
What does polluted water mean to you that might not have meaning for others? Who is most at risk or affected by the waters that you study What is the key water problem from your research vantage point? What are the leading findings? Solutions? What are the major obstacles to finding a solution? Who has access to these solutions? What are the legal obstacles (both locally and on an international scale) to the proposed solutions? What do we need to understand to frame this as a human rights issue OR as a critical engineering solution?
This event is presented in collaboration with: The Department of History of Science at Harvard University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Thalia Viveros Uehara
Speaker
Harvard Law School
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Moderator
Professor of the History of Science; Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Harvard University.
Bios
Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include modern Latin America, the intersection of science and culture, public health, and scientific and medical exchange in the Global South. Her first book, Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill, won the Robert K. Merton Best Book Prize in Science, Knowledge, and Technology Studies from the American Sociological Association. She is completing two book manuscripts Sanitizing Rebellion: Physician Strikes, Public Health and Repression in Twentieth Century Mexico, which examines the role of healthcare providers as both critical actors in the formation of modern states and as social agitators and her latest project which seeks to re-narrate histories of twentieth century agriculture development aid from the point of view of India and Mexico. She has held numerous grants, including those from the Ford, Mellon, Fulbright, DAAD, and Gerda Henkel Foundations. She was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 2019-2020, and will hold the Dibner Distinguished Fellowship in History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library, 2023-24.