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 2022, the colloquia will be in person in 125 Nicholson Hall.

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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 2023

January 20, 2023, 3:35PM

Annual Science Studies Symposium
The New Science of Morality
David Redish, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

January 27, 2023, 3:35PM

Local Politics and Health Reform, Then and Now
Merlin Chowkwanyun, School of Public Health, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

February 10, 2023, 3:35PM

On Mathematical Measurement and Representative Politics: Rethinking the 1960s Apportionment Revolution
Alma Steingart, History, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

February 17, 2023, 3:35PM

Organizational Perspectives on Values in Artificial Intelligence
Justin Biddle, School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology

February 24, 2023, 3:35PM

Reformulating and Rebranding a Universal Remedy: Local Theriacs in Early Modern Europe
Erik Heinrichs, History, Winona State University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

March 17, 2023, 3:35PM

Collaboration Across and Beyond “Two Cultures”
Elena Aronova, History, University of California Santa Barbara
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

March 24, 2023, 3:35PM

Our Genes
Rasmus Winther, Humanities, UC, Santa Cruz

March 31, 2023, 3:35PM

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Graham Mooney, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

April 14, 2023, 3:35PM

Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution
Nathan Crowe, History, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

April 21, 2023, 3:35PM

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Stephen Snobelen, History of Science and Technology, Univeristy of King's College, Halifax
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

 

Fall 2022

September 16, 2022, 3:35PM

Narrative Interventions: Reckoning with Opioids in the Land of 10,000 Rehabs
Amy Sullivan, History, Macalester College
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

September 23, 2022, 3:35PM

Interdisciplinary Integration as “Coordinated and Unified Action”
Evelyn Brister, Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology

September 30, 2022, 3:35PM

Demographic Data and Global Population Control
Emily Merchant, Science and Technology Studies, University of California–Davis
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

October 7, 2022, 3:35PM

Choose your own apocalypse: nuclear war, asteroids, and predicting the end of the world
Matthew Stanley, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

October 21, 2022, 3:35PM

Markets and Demarcation
Jennifer Jhun, Philosophy, Duke University

October 28, 2022, 3:35PM

Hazardous Nature: Coalmining Engineers, Discounting Calculations, and the Price of Risk, c. 1800
William Deringer, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

November 4, 2022, 3:35PM

Problems in the Pluriverse: Postcolonial and Indigenous Science and Technology Studies
Suman Seth, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 

December 2, 2022, 3:35PM 

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Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 

December 9, 2022, 3:35PM 

Calibrating Cosmic Dawn Instruments
Nora Boyd, Philosophy, Siena College