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.