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 2024, the colloquia will be in person in 125 Nicholson Hall except for April 12, 2024.
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Spring 2024
January 19, 2024, 3:35pm
Annual Science Studies Symposium
Varieties of Expertise and the Research University
Elaine Auyoung, English, GWSS, CCS, University of Minnesota
January 26, 2024, 3:35pm
Cancelled
Lydia Barnett, History, Northwestern University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 2, 2024, 3:35pm
Cadavers, Jews, and the Politics of Medical Discourse in East Central Europe
Natalia Aleksiun, Holocaust Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 9, 2024, 3:35pm
Infrastructures of Space in Africa: The French in Postcolonial Algeria
Asif Siddiqi, History, Fordham University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 16, 2024, 3:35pm
What Kind of Thing is a Potato? Agriculture and the Aims of Science
Julia Bursten, Philosophy, University of Kentucky
February 23, 2024, 3:35pm
Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and the Future of Agriculture, 1919-1935
Maria Fedorova, History, Macalester College
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 1, 2024, No meeting
March 8, 2024 No meeting - Spring Break
March 15, 2024, 3:35pm
Scientists Are Worse than Other Professors’: Science, Morality, and Industry at Robert Maynard Hutchins’s University of Chicago
Joseph Martin, History of Science and Technology, Durham University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 22, 2024, 3:35pm
Social Scientific Tools for Identifying Democratic Values
Karen Kovaka, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
March 29, 2024, 3:35pm
Prescribing Reproductive Rights: Pills and the Politics of Patient Autonomy, 1969-2024
Kelly O'Donnell, Bryn Mawr
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 5, 2024, 3:35pm
How Physical Anthropologists Constructed Knowledge of Racial Qualities through Inter-Imperial Networks:
A Medical History in the Eyes of Scientists and Botan's Skulls
Harry Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 12, 2024, 3:45pm University Hall, McNamara Center
Giere Memorial Lecture
Epistemic communities and their situated knowledges. An Introduction to perspectival realism
Michela Massimi, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
April 19, 2024, 3:35pm
Tales From the Crypt: Craniometry, Computers and Mass Culture in 1960s Cambridge
Joanna Radin, History, Yale University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 26, 2024, 3:35pm
Nacreous Histories of Science: Pearling Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World
Tamara Fernando, History, Stony Brook University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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
Rereading Disability with Race in the Long Eighteenth Century
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
Ordinary Bodies: Care, Disability, and Cultural Representation
Talia Schaffer, English, Queens College, CUNY
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
December 8, 2023, 3:35PM CANCELLED
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