January 18 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Kellen Backer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Feeding the Army: The Quartermaster Corps and the Creation of a Global Food System in World War II.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
January 21 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag
A discussion on department colloquia
January 28 (Friday) at Noon
Jennifer Kaiser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Germs, Hospitals, and One Crusading Obstetrician: How to Prevent Cross-Infection and Reduce Maternal Mortality, 1890-1940.”
February 4 (Friday) at Noon
Nick Jacobson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Tools of Missionary Cartography: Establishing Spiritual Law over the Material World.”
February 8 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Mitch Aso, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “The ‘Vietnamization’ of Agriculture: Appropriating French Colonial Science in Postcolonial Vietnam.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
One of “Appropriations: Collecting for Science” Colloquium Series talks – see History of Science department news for the schedule of all talks in this series.
February 11 (Friday) at Noon
Alan Love, University of Minnesota
“Asa Gray’s Evolving Perspective on Teleology, Variation, and Natural Theology.”
February 22 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
RESCHEDULED TO NEW DATE: TUESDAY MARCH 22, 2011
Colloquium: Pilar Ossorio, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: “Appropriating Research Data and Medical Information.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
One of “Appropriations: Collecting for Science” Colloquium Series talks – see History of Science department news for the schedule of all talks in this series.
February 25 (Friday) at Noon
Daniel Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Shoggoth of Science: Protoplasm and Biological Disciplines, 1900-1940.”
March 4 (Friday) at Noon
Bennet Goldstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The medical characterizations of and responses to the uncertainties of HIV-positive pregnancies during the American AIDS epidemic, 1984-1996.”
March 11 (Friday) at Noon
Neil Whitehead, Anthropology Dept., UW-Madison
“Materializing the Past: Archeology and the Colonial Legacies of Science.”
March 18 (Friday) at Noon
No Brown Bag – Spring Break
March 22 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Pilar Ossorio, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Appropriating Research Data and Medical Information.”
Note new location: Room 126, Memorial Library.
Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
One of “Appropriations: Collecting for Science” Colloquium Series talks – see History of Science department news for the schedule of all talks in this series.
March 25 (Friday) at Noon
Alexey V. Postnikov, Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
“George Bogle, the first British envoy to Bhutan and Tibet (1774-1775): The importance of his mission for his contemporaries and subsequent participants of the Great Game in Asia.”
March 29 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Bruno Strasser, Yale University
Title: “Collecting Experiments: The New Production of Biomedical Knowledge.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
One of “Appropriations: Collecting for Science” Colloquium Series talks – see History of Science department news for the schedule of all talks in this series.
April 1 (Friday) at Noon
David Kaiser, MIT
“Booms, Busts, and the World of Ideas: Teaching Quantum Mechanics after World War II.”
April 1 (Friday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: David Kaiser, MIT
Title: “How the Hippies Saved Physics.”
Location: 2241 Chamberlin Hall. Coffee at 3:30 pm.
Co-hosted by the UW Physics Department.
April 8 (Friday) at Noon
Brad Moore, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“For the People’s Health: Medical Authority and Marxist-Leninism in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1956.”
April 15 (Friday) at Noon
Judy Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Passport to Mecca: H. L. Fleischer and the Leipzig School of Oriental Philology.”
April 19 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Nicholas Dew, McGill University
Title: “Weight in the Tropics: French Expeditions and the Globalization of Science, c. 1670-c. 1740.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
One of “Appropriations: Collecting for Science” Colloquium Series talks – see History of Science department news for the schedule of all talks in this series.
April 22 (Friday) at Noon
Lynnette Regouby, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Sensitive Plant: 18th Century Physiology Remakes the Vegetable Soul.”
April 29 (Friday) at Noon
Wenjing Li, Peking University and UW-Madison
“Enlightenment Fire”
May 6 (Friday) at Noon
Professor Guosheng Wu, Peking University
“Chinese Research on History of Western Science.”
June 3 (Friday) at Noon
Karen Darling, University of Chicago Press (science studies book acquisitions)
“On publishing academic books: addressing the perspectives of the press and authors.”