September 7 (Friday) at Noon
Introductions and Planning
September 12 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Ann Blair, Harvard University
“Managing Information in Big Books, 1500-1700.”
Location: 6104 Social Science
September 14 (Friday) at Noon
Claire Wendland, UW-Madison
“Politics, history and medicine in post-Banda Malawi.”
September 21 (Friday) at Noon
Daniel Siegel, UW-Madison
“Isaacson on Einstein: The Annus Mirabilis and All That.”
September 26 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Jonathan Sadowsky, Case Western Reserve University
“The History of a Side Effect: Electroconvulsive Therapy and Memory Loss, 1938 to the Present.”
Location: 6104 Social Science
September 28 (Friday) at Noon
Amrys Williams, UW-Madison
“Head, Heart, Hands and Health: 4H Ecology and Conservation in Wisconsin, 1930-1950.”
October 5 (Friday) at Noon
Ted Davis, Messiah College
“Robert Andrews Millikan (1863-1953): His Religious Life and Thought.”
October 10 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Alison Winter, University of Chicago
“Movies in the Brain: Wilder Penfield ane the Sciences of Remembering in the Mid-Twentieth Century.”
Location: 6104 Social Science
October 12 (Friday) at Noon
Faculty/Graduate Panel
“NSF Funding: Experiences and Perspecives.”
October 19 (Friday) at Noon
Jocelyn Bosley and David Meshoulam, UW-Madison
“All I Really Need to Know About the History of Science I Learned in Middle School.”
October 26 (Friday) at Noon
Gregg Mitman, UW-Madison
“Introduction to the Tales from Planet Earth Film Festival.”
October 31 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Efthymios Nicolaidis, Director of Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation; Secretary General of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science and Technology
“Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: Some Historical Perspectives.”
Location: 6104 Social Science
November 2 (Friday) at Noon
HSS meeting, Arlington, VA
No Brown Bag
November 9 (Friday) at Noon
Matthew Smith, University of Exeter
“Witchcraft, Fad or Racket: A Pre-peanut History of Food Allergy.”
November 16 (Friday) at Noon
Eric Boyle, University of Exeter
“Promising Cures and Conjuring Science: The Direct Marketing of Drugs to American Doctors in the Early Twentieth Century.”
November 23 (Friday) at Noon
Thanksgiving
No Brown Bag
November 30 (Friday) at Noon
Lynn Nyhart and Peter Susalla, UW-Madison
“Kids these days: teaching the ‘millenial generation’.”
December 5 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Frederick Gibbs, UW-Madison
“The venomes doo preserve from diseases’: Concepts and Categories of Poison in the Late Middle Ages.”
Location: 6104 Social Science
December 7 (Friday) at Noon
Sejal Patel, Robert Wood Johnson Fellow, Population Health Sciences
“The Community and the Individual in American Medical Research: The Roseto Study in Historical Perspective.”
December 14 (Friday) at Noon
Town Meeting