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 Central Time (UTC-6). For Fall 2020, the colloquia will be online via Zoom.
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You also may be interested in related events, such as our International Postdoc Forum or the symposia and public events hosted by our Many Faces of Reproducibility project.
Spring 2021
January 22, 2021, 3:35PM CST
The Program in History of Medicine will host two panels for the American Association of the History of Medicine
1:30 pm CST Cultured Knowledge: Biohistorical Approaches to Microbial Culture Collections
3:30 pm CST The Medical Management of Bodes: Intersex, Inmates, and Aids to Hearing
More details on the Panel.
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
January 29, 2021, 3:35PM CST
Predictively Equivalent Theories: What’s the Problem?
Pablo Acuña, Philosophy Institute, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Abstract for Predictively Equivalent Theories: What's the Problem
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February 12, 2021, 3:35PM CST
Annual Science Studies Symposium
Evidence-Based Medicine is stuck: Suggestions to unclog it
Steven Stovitz, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota
Abstract for the Annual Science Studies Symposium
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February 19, 2021, 3:35PM CST
Plucking Flowers, Despoiling Islands: Settler Colonial Botany in Interwar Hawai‘i
Ashanti Shih, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of Southern California
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
March 12, 2021, 3:35PM CST
Minding the Nose: More than meets the AI?
Ann-Sophie Barwich, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, and Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University Bloomington
Abstract for Minding the Nose: More than meets the AI?
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April 16, 2021, 3:35PM CDT
Connecting the Dots: A History of Systems Thinking in Chinese Agricultural Science and Politics
Sigrid Schmalzer, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Fall 2020
October 2, 2020
Cryptic Effects at a Distance: Constructing Causal Claims in Fetal Epigenetic Programming Research
Sarah Richardson, History of Science and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard
Abstract for Cryptic Effects at a Distance: Constructing Claims in Fetal Epigenetic Programming Research
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
October 16, 2020
Health Care Ideas, Activism, and Politics in Cold War America: Establishing Outpatient Mental Health Care for Veterans of the War in Vietnam
Jessica Adler, Department of History, Florida International University
Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
November 13, 2020
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