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 101 Tate Hall. Subscribe to our mailing list for colloquium updates
Spring 2020
January 24, 2020
Annual Science Symposium
Evolving Plant Populations and the Contingency of Genetic Effects
Ruth Shaw, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
January 31, 2020
Enslaved Histories: Value, Risk, and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic
Pablo Gomez, Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 7, 2020
The Age of Nitrogen: the Colonial Green Revolution and Postcolonial Fertilizer
Hiromi Mizuno, History, University of Minnesota
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 14, 2020
The People's War against Earthquakes: Science, Disasters, and Politics in Communist China
Fa-ti Fan, History, Binghampton University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 21, 2020
Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
Kylie Smith, School of Nursing, Emory University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
February 28, 2020
Epistemic Integration and Cross-Disciplinary Science
Michael O'Rourke, Philosophy & AgBioResearch, Michigan State University
March 6, 2020
No colloquium
March 13, 2020
No colloquium, Spring Break
March 20, 2020 - CANCELLED
‘So few see the importance of antepartum care’: Early efforts to encourage low income women to engage with prenatal care
Janet Greenlees, Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 27, 2020 - CANCELLED
Cryptic Effects at a Distance: Constructing Causal Claims in Fetal Epigenetic Programming Research
Sarah Richardson, History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
April 3, 2020 - CANCELLED
Holy Modern: Cold War Fascism and the Technoaesthetics of Imperial Imagination
Maria Gonzalez Pendas, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 10, 2020 - CANCELLED
Typhoid Cultures: Disease, Medical Science, and Popular Politics in Victorian Britain
Jacob Steere-Williams, Department of History, College of Charleston
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 17, 2020 - CANCELLED
Erle Stanley Gardner’s ‘Court of Last Resort’ and the Pursuit of Wrongful Conviction in Cold War America (forensic science)
Ian Burney, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
April 24, 2020 - CANCELLED
Connecting the Dots: A History of Systems Thinking in Chinese Agricultural Science and Politics
Sigrid Schmalzer, History, UMass-Amherst
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
May 1, 2020 - CANCELLED
What’s a Replication?
Edouard Machery, History and Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh
Fall 2019
September 6, 2019
The Health of the People: A New History of Latin American Social Medicine
Eric Carter, Geography, Macalester College
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
September 13, 2019
The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism
Meghan Page, Philosophy, Loyola University
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
September 20, 2019
Reimagining the History of Climate Science
Debbie Coen, History, Yale University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
September 27, 2019
New Deal Medicine and the Birth of Socialized Health Care in Canada: Fred Mott in Saskatchewan, 1946–1951
Esyllt Jones, History, University of Manitoba
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 4, 2019
The Dynamics of Epistemic Ecology: Learning from Scientific Theory Change
Lydia Patton, Philosophy, Virginia Tech
Link to presentation slides
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
October 11, 2019
Underground Evangelizing: Theodicy and Orthodoxy in Lomonosov’s Theory of Earth.
Anna Graber, Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
October 18, 2019
No colloquium
October 25, 2019
Indigo Trials and Tribulations: Michel Adanson’s African Laboratory
Mary Terrall, History, UCLA
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 1, 2019
Dispensing with Explanatory Inference
Kareem Khalifa, Philosophy, Middlebury College
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
November 8, 2019
How to Train a Mouse - Methodological Challenges to Pre-clinical Exercise Oncology
Amit Hagar, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 15, 2019
The methodologists: following the scientists who make tools, not facts
Nicole Nelson, Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 22, 2019
A new way of seeing: Medical Humanities and the moral imperative of social justice
Brandy Shillace, Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 29, 2019
No colloquium Thanksgiving
December 6, 2019
The Structure of Best Explanations
Jonah N. Schupbach, Philosophy, University of Utah
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science