September 7 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag
Introductions and Planning
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 7 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Megan Raby, UW-Madison
Title: “Taming ‘Jungle Island:’ The transformation of Barro Colorado Island into a field station for tropical biology.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (
Special Collections).
September 14 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Rick Keller and Sue Lederer, UW-Madison
Title: “Notes on the Search Experience: Perspectives from the Committee.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 21 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Jim Lattis, et. al., UW-Madison
Title: “Non-Tenure-Track Options for History of SMT Grads.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 28 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Toshihiro Higuchi, UW-Madison
Title: “Radioactive Fallout, the Grammar of Externalities, and the Making of a Global Pollution Crisis, 1945-1963.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 5 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Carrie Roy, UW-Madison
Title: “Digital Humanities: Creativity, Collaboration, and You.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 5 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Anna Zeide, UW-Madison
Title: “Growing a Better Pea: Canners, Farmers, and Agricultural Scientists in the 1910s and 1920s.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (
Special Collections).
October 12 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Dayle DeLancey and Katie Robinson, UW-Madison
Title: “Doing History, Protecting Privacy: IRBs, HIPAA, and Historical Research.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 19 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, UW-Madison
Title: All A Glow: A Discussion of Go Big Read’s
Radioactive.
(The UW 2012
Go Big Read book by Lauren Redniss)
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 26 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Molly Laas, UW-Madison
Title: “Smelling Newtown Creek: Lay Ways of Knowing and Urban Environmental Pollution in Nineteenth-Century New York City.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
November 2 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Meridith Beck-Sayre and Nicholas Jacobson, UW-Madison
Title: “A Place Where No Men Dwell, Nor Souls Pass Away: Defining Spiritual Landscapes in Giambattista Riccioli’s Selenography.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
November 2 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Wendy Kline, University of Cincinnati
Title: “Birth in Transition: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (
Special Collections).
November 9 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Terry Kelley, UW-Madison, English
“Clandestine Marriages: Working Figures on a Scientific Ground.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
November 16 (Friday) at Noon
No Brown Bag – 2012 HSS/PSA Meeting in San Diego
November 23 (Friday) at Noon
No Brown Bag – Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Robert-Jan Wille, Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
““The European empires as living laboratories? The imperial turn in the Dutch and Belgian history of science.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
December 7 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag
Town Meeting
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
December 7 (Friday) at 3:00 pm
Colloquium: Peter Susalla, UW-Madison
Title: “‘A Major Place of Weakness in the Creationist Armor:’ Young-earth Creationism and the Challenge of Modern Cosmology, 1961-1999.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (
Special Collections).
December 14 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Sam Schweber, History of Science, Brandeis University
Title: “The Transformation of Physics from 1945 to the mid-70s.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial