September 6 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag
Introductions and Planning
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 13 (Friday) at Noon
Richard Hirsh, Virginia Tech
“History of Science & Technology and Public Policy: Reflections on an Academic’s Attempt to Influence the Real World.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 20 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Mike Shank, UW-Madison
“The Furore about Greenblatt’s *The Swerve*: Why Historians (of Science) Should Care.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
September 20 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Toshihiro Higuchi, UW-Madison
“Birth of the ’Atomic Tuna’: Radioactive Fallout and the Trans-Pacific Politics of Radiological Standards, 1954-1956.” (Abstract)
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).
September 27 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Lynn Nyhart, UW-Madison
Discussion of Thomas Frank’s recently published article, “Course Corrections.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 4 (Friday) at Noon
David Jones, Harvard University
“Heart Disease and Health Policy in post-Independence India.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 4 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: David Jones, Harvard University
“On the Origins of Therapies: Cardiac Revascularization and the Surgical Imagination, 1910-1970.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).
October 11 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Florence Hsia, UW-Madison
“History of science: one of history’s others?”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 18 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Lynn Nyhart, UW-Madison
“Careers beyond the professoriat: How can professors help?”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
October 25 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Elham Mireshghi, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology, University of California at Irvine
“Sacred Knowledges and Expert Opinions – The Making of Fatwas on Kidney Sales in Iran.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
November 1 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Lynnette Regouby, UW-Madison
“Saffron Fields and Naval Hospitals: Tending Bodies from the Outside In.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
November 8 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Molly Laas, UW-Madison
“The Manual For the Animal Machine: An Intellectual and Social History of Bodily Energetics, 1840-1930.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
November 8 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Ronald Numbers, UW-Madison
“The Truth about Darwinism in America.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).
November 15 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Dayle DeLancey, UW-Madison, and Jeff Kollath, Public Humanities Program Manager at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities
“Public Humanities Training Resources for Graduate Students at UW-Madison.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
November 22 (Friday) at Noon
No Brown Bag – HSS meeting in Boston (November 21-24)
November 29 (Friday) at Noon
No Brown Bag – Thanksgiving Holiday
December 6 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Tom Misa, University of Minnesota
“Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History: What is Gained and What is Lost with ’Big History’ Projects?”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
December 6 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Meridith Beck Sayre, UW-Madison
“The Index, the Indian, and the young ladies: How a seventeenth-century missionary text became anthropological data and legal evidence.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).
December 13 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Dan Liu, UW-Madison
“From protoplasm to whales.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial