September 2 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag
Introductions and Planning
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 9 (Friday) at Noon
Victoria Nourse, UW-Madison Law School
“Progressive Science: The Eugenic Revival of the 1930s.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 16 (Friday) at Noon
Rick Keller, UW-Madison
“Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present” – An Introduction to the 2011-12 Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar at the Center for the Humanities.
September 23 (Friday) at Noon
Judy Houck, UW-Madison, and Troy Reeves, Archives, Library, UW-Madison
“On Oral History.”
September 30 (Friday) at Noon
Adam Shapiro, UW-Madison
“Nebraska, 1924: America’s First Anti-Evolution Trial.”
October 7 (Friday) at Noon
Andrew Stuhl, UW-Madison
“Reindeer for the Inuit: Science and Politics in the Arctic’s First Development Project.”
October 14 (Friday) at Noon
James Moore, Open University
“On Alfred Russel Wallace.”
October 14 (Friday) at 2:00 pm
Colloquium: James Moore, Open University
Title: “Darwin and the ‘Sin’ of Slavery.”
Location: Gale Vandenberg Auditorium, Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin.
Co-sponsored with the Isthmus Society and Departments of Philosophy Zoology. One of “Science and the Citizen” Colloquium Series talks.
October 21 (Friday) at Noon
Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Ebling Library, UW-Madison
“On the Seaworthy Exhibit.”
Location: Meeting and exhibit at Ebling Library 3rd Floor Historical Reading Room.
October 28 (Friday) at Noon
Tom Broman, Florence Hsia, Helen Tilley, Dayle Delancey, and Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, (all) UW-Madison
“How to Have a Successful Research Trip.”
October 28 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Peter Dear, Cornell University
Title: “Motives, Reasons, and Passions in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy.”
November 4 (Friday) at Noon
No Brown Bag – 2011 HSS/SHOT Meeting in Cleveland
November 11 (Friday) at Noon
J. Michelle Molina, Northwestern University
Title: “Circulations: Jesuit Heart and Science in the Eighteenth-Century Catholic Atlantic World.”
Location: Memorial Library 126. Co-sponsored with the Mellon Workshop on Science and Print Culture.
November 11 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Kristin Ruggiero, UW-Milwaukee
Title: “Neurasthenia, Modernity, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Argentina.”
One of “Science and the Citizen” Colloquium Series talks.
November 18 (Friday) at Noon
Robin Rider, Florence Hsia, and Meridith Beck Sayre, UW-Madison
“Jesuits and the Construction of Knowledge, 1540–1773” – An Exhibit in Special Collections, Memorial Library.
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial.
November 25 (Friday) at Noon
No Brown Bag – Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2 (Friday) at Noon
Denise Phillips, University of Tennessee
“Koselleck’s History of Concepts and the History of Science.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
December 2 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Denise Phillips, University of Tennessee
Title: “Serving the State, Recasting Nature: Agricultural Expertise, Citizenship, and Political Power in Germany, 1750-1850.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 2:45 pm.
Co-sponsored by CGES. One of “Science and the Citizen” Colloquium Series talks.
December 9 (Friday) at Noon
Town hall meeting
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
December 9 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Frank Uekötter (Deutsches Museum and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich)
Title: “Cultivating the One and Only Plant: Perspectives of a Global History of Monoculture.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 2:45 pm.
Co-sponsored by Medical History & Bioethics, Center for German and European Studies, Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History and Environment, and the Holtz Center. One of “Science and the Citizen” Colloquium Series talks.