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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Fall 2023
September 15, 2023, 3:35PM
What Makes Scientific Models Informative?
Dana Matthiessen, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
September 22, 2023, 3:35PM
Eye on the Needle: Acupuncture and 'Alternative' Medicine in 1970s America
Emily Baum, School of Humanities, University of California-Irvine
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
September 29, 2023, 3:35PM
Technologies of Extraction in a World that Carbon Made
Victor Seow, History, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Monday, October 2, 2023, 2:00 PM
Hybrid 737 Heller Hall and Zoom
Emotionless animals?
Jonathan Birch, London School of Economics
October 6, 2023, 3:35PM
Lack of Focus Section: Acknowledging One Hundred Years of Uncomfortable Growth in
the History of Science
Matthew Lavine, History, Mississippi State University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 13, 2023, 3:35PM
Epistemic progress in science
Peter J. Lewis, Philosophy, Dartmouth College
October 20, 2023, 3:35PM
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Emily Stanback, University. of Southern Mississippi
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 27, 2023, 3:35PM
A Dam Smeared in Blood: Ottoman Expertise and Projecting along the Euphrates River
Faisal Husain, History, Penn State University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 3, 2023, 3:35PM
The Peasant as Philosopher: Jacob Guyer and the Status of Rural Knowledge-Makers in Eighteenth-Century Central Europe
Denise Phillips, History, University of Tennessee
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 10, 2023, 3:35PM
Who Needs Magnitudes?
Eran Tal, Philosophy, McGill University
November 17, 2023, 3:35PM
Psychic Income: Irving Fisher’s Pop Psychology and the Economics of Time in the Early Twentieth Century
William Deringer, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
December 1, 2023, 3:35PM
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Talia Schaffer, English, Queens College, CUNY
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
December 8, 2023, 3:35PM
Translating and Scrutinizing the Science of Sociogenomics: A Focus on Polygenic Scores
Callie H. Burt, Criminal Justice & Criminology; Center for Research on Interpersonal Violence (CRIV), Georgia State University