University of Wisconsin–Madison

All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2013

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