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 Spring 2022, the colloquia will be in person in 125 Nicholson Hall.
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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 online
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
The Science of Imprecision: Neoclassical Economics, the Problem of Induction, and the Limits of Calculation
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
States of Bodies and the State's Bodies: A Citizenship Narrative for a Comparative History of Forensic Medicine (and Forensic Science)
Chris Hamlin, University of Notre Dame, ret.
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 15, 2022, 3:35PM online
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
The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
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 Cancelled
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