All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2008
January 25 (Friday) at Noon
Walton Schalick, UW–Madison
“Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disability and Children, 1000-1400.”
February 1 (Friday) at Noon
Scott Prinster, UW–Madison
“Who’s Watching the Watchers? Why Some Historians Call Institutional Review Boards a Threat to Academic Freedom.”
February 8 (Friday) at Noon
Visual Culture Symposium
No Brown Bag
February 13 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: David Rosner, Columbia University
“Trials and Tribulations of a Historian in the Courtroom: The Case(s) of Lead Poisoned Children in Wisconsin and the Country.”
Location: 6102 Social Science
February 15 (Friday) at Noon
Walton Schalick and Ellen Samuels, UW–Madison
“Enabling Disability Studies at UW.”
February 22 (Friday) at Noon
Thomas Broman, UW–Madison
“Field Notes from an Awards Committee.”
February 29 (Friday) at Noon
Richard Keller, UW–Madison
“Chasing Ghosts: Social Ecology, Marginalization, and the Paris Heat Wave.”
March 7 (Friday) at Noon
Meridith Beck Sayre, Megan Raby, and Lynnette Regouby, UW–Madison
“The Natural History of Nearly Everything.”
March 12 (Wednesday) at 4:15 pm
Colloquium: Joshua Kundert, UW–Madison
“Fluid Technologies of World War II: Fuels, Oil and Everything in Between.”
Location: 8417 Social Science
March 14 (Friday) at Noon
Amrys Williams, UW–Madison
“A Place for Movies: Thinking about History and Film.”
March 21 (Friday) at Noon
Spring Break
No Brown Bag
March 28 (Friday) at Noon
BYOI (Bring Your Own Idea) Potluck
April 2 (Wednesday) at 4:15 pm
Colloquium: Robert E. Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
“A Science of the Whole Environment: Wildlife Ecology.”
Location: 8417 Social Science
April 4 (Friday) at Noon
Judith Holst-Kaplan, UW–Madison
“The ‘Oriental Science’ of James Henry Breasted.”
April 9 (Wednesday) at 4:15 pm
Colloquium: Angela N.H. Creager, Princeton University
“Tracing Radioisotopes Through the Biomedical Complex, 1935-1955: From Gift Exchange to Commodification in the Atomic Age.”
Location: 8417 Social Science. Co-sponsored by the Holtz Center for Science and Technologies Studies.
April 11 (Friday) at Noon
Michael Shank and David Lindberg, UW–Madison
“Defining the Scientific Revolution: the Controversy Over ‘Natural Philosophy’ and ‘Mathematics’ From Aristotle to the 17th Century.”
April 18 (Friday) at Noon
Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
“Indigenous Health in a Global Frame: From Community Development to Human Rights.”
April 25 (Friday) at Noon
Shannon Withycombe, UW–Madison
“Doctors Defining Miscarriage: Meaning-Making in Pregnancy Loss in Nineteenth-Century America.”
May 2 (Friday) at Noon
Hans Hjermitslev, University of Aarhus
“Danes Celebrating Darwin – Tribute and Ambivalence at the 1909 Anniversary.”
May 7 (Wednesday) at 4:15 pm
Colloquium: Eric Schatzberg, UW–Madison
“How Technology Lost its Logos.”
Location: 8417 Social Science