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 in Room 155 Nicholson Hall. Subscribe to our mailing list for colloquium updates
Spring 2019
January 25, 2019, 4 pm (note change of time)
Science Studies Symposium
Optimizing the Human-Machine Partnership with Zooniverse
Lucy Fortson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
February 1, 2019 Cancelled
The weather has made travel ipossible for the speaker.
Science, religion and the New Atheism: the view from the history and philosophy of science
Stephen Snobelen, Humanitites, King's College, Halifax
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 8, 2019
Re-evaluating SARS: health campaigns as a lens into Chinese science, administration, and state control
Miriam Gross, History and International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 15, 2019
Mechanisms, Multiple Realizability, and Medium Independence
Gualtiero Piccinini, Philosophy, and Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
February 22, 2019
Einstein in Bohemia: Science and Prague before and after the Habsburgs
Michael Gordin, History, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 1, 2019
Five-Hundred Years of Plague in Ottoman History: Re-thinking the Second Pandemic
Nükhet Varlık, History, Rutgers University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 8, 2019
Theaters of Machines: Breakage, Social Order, and the Lost Histories of the Technological Self
Edward Jones-Imhotep, History, York University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 15, 2019
No colloquium
March 22, 2019
No colloquium Spring break
March 29, 2019
The Politics of Popular Physiology in Germany in the 1840s and 50s
Lynn Nyhart, History, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 5, 2019
Author Meets Readers
Varieties of Continua: From Regions to Points and Back
Authors: Geoffrey Hellman Philosophy, University of Minnesota and Stewart Shapiro Philosophy, The Ohio State University.
Readers: Øystein Linnebo Philosophy, University of Oslo and Gabriel Uzquiano Philosophy, University of Southern California
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
April 12, 2019
Being "One of the Boys": Manliness and Experimental Zoology in Boston
Jenna Tonn, History, Boston College
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 19, 2019
Republic of Venus: Shopping for Venereal Cures in Early Modern London
Olivia Weisser, History, University of Massachusetts
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 26, 2019
Idealization and Many Aims
Angela Potochnik, Philosophy, University of Cincinnati
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
May 3, 2019
Pests, Parasites, Partners & Poisons: The metaphors and molecules that frame interspecies interactions
Rachel Mason Dentinger, Undergraduate Studies, University of Utah
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine