Colloquia
Unless otherwise indicated, the lectures are held on Fridays, in conjunction with the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program and Colloquium in Studies of Science and Technology, at 3:35 PM US Central Time. For Fall 2021, the colloquia will be in person in 125 Nichoolson Hall.
Subscribe to our mailing list for colloquium updates and links to the events.
Visit our Youtube channel to see recorded presentations.
You also may be interested in related events, such as our International Postdoc Forum or the symposia and public events hosted by our Many Faces of Reproducibility project.
Spring 2022
January 21, 2022, 3:35PM online
Annual Science Studies Symposium
Far from the Tree? Evolving Perspectives on the Nature of Parent to Offspring Transmission
Matt McGue, Psychology, University of Minnesota
January 28, 2022, 3:35PM online
Philosopher Kings of the Rocky Mountains: Marmots, Time, and Animal Behavior
Erika Milam, History, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 4, 2022, 3:35PM
No colloquium
February 11, 2022, 3:35PM
Vital Connections: A Global Perspective on the History of Disease and Medicine in the Greater Caribbean
Mariola Espinosa, History; Biomedical Ethics, University of Iowa
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 18, 2022, 3:35PM
Brothel of the Pacific: Syphilis and the Urban Regulation of Laikini Wahine in Honolulu, 1855-1875.
Christopher Kindell
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 25, 2022, 3:35PM
The Philosophical Aftermath of Newton’s Physics: The Case of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics
Andrew Janiak, Philosophy, Duke University
March 4, 2022, 3:35PM
No colloquium
March 11, 2022, 3:35PM
No colloquium: Spring Break
March 18, 2022, 3:35PM
Title tba
Joel Isaac, Social Thought, University of Chicago
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 25, 2022, 3:35PM
Concepts as Scaffolds in Investigative Practice
Corinne Bloch-Mullins, Philosophy, Marquette University
April 1, 2022, 3:35PM
The Artisanal Heart: Craft and Experimentalism in Early Modern Korea
Hyeok Hweon Kang, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University – St Louis
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 8, 2022, 3:35PM
Title tba
Chris Hamlin, University of Notre Dame, ret.
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 15, 2022, 3:35PM
Natural Monopoly: Colonial Science, Orders of Access, and the East India Company in London, 1757-1858
Jessica Ratcliff, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 22, 2022, 3:35PM
Title tba
Sarah Richardson, History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 29, 2022, 3:35PM
Interdisciplinary Integration as “Coordinated and Unified Action”
Evelyn Brister, Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Fall 2021
September 10, 2021, 3:35PM
Punch Drunk Slugnuts: Violence and the Vernacular History of Disease
Stephen Casper, Humanities and Social Sciences, Clarkson University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
September 17, 2021, 3:35PM
Microaggressions in Social Explanation and Individual Phenomenology
Mikio Akagi, History and Philosophy of Science, Texas Christian University
September 24, 2021, 3:35PM
Normal and Abnormal Rhythms in the Search for Biological Clocks: An Epistemological Gap Between Early Twentieth-Century Biology and Experimental Psychology
Jole Shackelford, History of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 1, 2021, 3:35PM
No colloquium
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 8, 2021, 3:35PM
Toxic Anachronism in the History of Science and Technology: The Case of Liebniz
Andre Wakefield, History, Pitzer College
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 15, 2021, 3:35PM
Carbolic Colonialism: Race, Labor, and Plague in South Africa
Jacob Steere-Williams, History, College of Charleston
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 22, 2021, 3:35PM
Why care about quantization?
Benjamin Feintzeig, Philosophy, University of Washington
October 29, 2021, 3:35PM online
The Do-It-Herself Smear: Prevention Technology, Medical Practice, and Cervical Cancer Screening in 1960s Britain
Elizabeth Toon, History and Sociology of Science, University of Manchester
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 5, 2021, 3:35PM online
Vaccination and its Historical Documents
Elena Conis Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 12, 2021, 3:35PM
Making Razze: Knowing and Controlling Animal Generation, 1500-1600
Mackenzie Cooley, History, Hamilton College
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 19, 2021, 3:35PM
What’s to be Gained from an Evolutionary Approach to Behavior?
Subrena Smith, Philosophy, University of New Hampshire
December 3, 2021, 3:35PM
Genesis, Creation, and Generation in Robert Boyle's Natural Philosophy
Ashley Inglehart, College of Medicine, Florida State University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
December 10, 2021, 3:35PM
No colloquium