All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2006
September 8 (Friday) at Noon
Introductions and Planning
September 11 (Monday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University
“The Life of Money and the Afflictions of the Body.”
Location: 8417 Social Science
September 15 (Friday) at Noon
Linda Hogle, UW–Madison
“Everything you always wanted to know about STS at the UW, but were afraid to ask.”
September 22 (Friday) at Noon
Rosalind Hearder, UW–Madison
“This war never ends: medical and psychological legacies of Japanese captivity for Allied POWs after 1945.”
September 30 (Saturday) at Noon
Daniel O’Connor, UW–Madison
“Are transsexuals magic? Transsexuality and the technology of history.”
October 6 (Friday) at Noon
Gail Schmitt, Princeton University
“Modeling Cytoplasmic Inheritance: The Debate between Ruth Sager and Nicholas Gillham.”
October 11 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Jim Jones, Author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
“The Agony of Hope: The Decision to Put David in the Bubble.”
Location: 6102 Social Science
October 13 (Friday) at Noon
Ronald Numbers, UW–Madison
“The Twenty-Five Greatest Myths in the History of Science and Religion.”
October 20 (Friday) at Noon
Judith Helfand, New York University (NYU)
“When Toxic Comedy becomes a necessary genre you know you’re in trouble: Translating the gruesome realities and un-BELIEVABILITIES of our time into subversive cinema and laugh out loud activist propaganda (with foot notes).”
Meeting in conjunction with the Environmental History Colloquium.
October 25 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Amy Bix, Iowa State
“Technical Knockout: America’s ‘Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program’ of the 1940s.”
Location: 6102 Social Science
October 27 (Friday) at Noon
Peter Susalla, UW–Madison
“Conflict or Consensus? The Neglected Middle Ground Between ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Astronomy, 1890-1910.”
November 3 (Friday) at Noon
Jon Roberts, Boston University
“The Long War between Theologians and Psychologists in America, 1830-1940.”
November 10 (Friday) at Noon
Steve Paulson, Wisconsin Public Radio
“Science vs. Religion: What’s Really at Stake in this Debate.”
November 15 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Jesus Alvarado, UW–Madison
“Weaving Mexican History: Cotton Textile Artisans and Political Economy.”
Location: 6102 Social Science
November 17 (Friday) at Noon
Gregg Mitman, UW–Madison
“Great White Hunting: Confronting Issues of Race, Science, and Conservation on Film.”
November 24 (Friday) at Noon
Thanksgiving
No Brown Bag
November 29 (Wednesday) at 3:30 pm
Medical History and Bioethics Brown Bag: Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology<
“Cochlear Implants and College Protests: How History Illuminates Current Struggles in the Deaf Community.”
Location: 1490 Medical Sciences Center
November 30 (Thursday) at 4:00 pm
Mellon Seminar: Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
“The Death of Deaf Culture or a Biomedical Miracle? Cochlear Implants in Historical Perspective.”
Location: 6191 Helen C. White Hall
December 1 (Friday) at Noon
Kellen Backer, Fred Gibbs, Andrew Ruis, and Amrys Williams, UW–Madison
“Food Forum.”
December 8 (Friday) at Noon
Gabriela Soto-Laveaga, UCSB; Ford Foundation Fellow, UW–Madison
“Hunting for Molecules, Finding Rebellion: Mexican Peasants and Global Quest for Steroid Hormones, 1949-1989.”
December 13 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Jeff Jentzen, UW–Madison
“The American Death Investigation System: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Search for Medical Certainty.”
Location: 6102 Social Science