All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2014


January 24 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Dana Freiburger, UW-Madison
“Cattell’s Catholics: Who were these American Men of Science?”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


January 31 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Michael D. Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Director, Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University
“Lysenko Unemployed, 1965-1976.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


January 31 (Friday) at 3:30 pm

Colloquium: Michael D. Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Director, Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University
“Speaking Utopian: Science in an Artificial Language.” (Abstract)

Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).

This lecture is jointly sponsored by History of Science, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Center for the Humanities Mellon Workshop Translation and Transformation: Transfer Processes across Languages, Media, and Culture.


February 7 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Tom Broman (History of Science), Sergio Gonzales (History), Sara Thal (History)
“The History of Wisconsin in 100 Objects.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


February 14 (Friday) at Noon

“Teaching the history of the physical sciences.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


February 21 (Friday) at Noon

“Teaching the history of the physical sciences.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


February 28 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Amelia Reesor, UW-Madison
“‘Hardest on the Survivors’: Constructing SIDS as a Family Affliction.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


March 7 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Irene Toro Martinez, UW-Madison
“‘In Compliance with Applicable Standards’?: Wisconsin’s Short-Lived Experiment with Private Prisons.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


March 14 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Emer Lucey, UW-Madison
“‘He’s beautiful! What’s wrong with him?’: Expectations of Beauty in Autistic Children, 1943-1990.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


March 21 (Friday) at Noon

No Meeting – Spring Break


March 28 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Nick Jacobson, UW-Madison
“Chains of Transmission and the Question of Independent Discovery in 13th-century Mathematical Texts.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


April 4 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Jenell Johnson, Communication Arts, UW-Madison
“Rhetorical Histories of Science and Medicine.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


April 11 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Sha Yang, UW-Madison
“In and out: the PhD program in history of science in China.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


April 11 (Friday) at 3:30 pm

Colloquium: Arleen Tuchman, Professor of History, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
“Diabetics as ‘Better Citizens’: Disease and the Politics of Citizenship in the 20th-century United States.”

Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).

Co-sponsored with the Department of Medical History and Bioethics.


April 18 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Dan Thurs, Epic Systems and UW-Madison History of Science Department Honorary Fellow
Title: “Science and Fear.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


April 25 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: Group Discussion
“How does academic publishing work? (And how do I start?)”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


May 2 (Friday) at Noon

Brown Bag: James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University; Co-Director, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
“Universal Museums in Local Places.”

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial


May 2 (Friday) at 3:30 pm

Colloquium: James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University; Co-Director, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
“Empire of Curiosities: Hans Sloane, the British Museum and the Collection of the World.” (Abstract) (Poster)

Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).

History of Science graduate student choice lecturer; University Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, the Center for Early Modern Studies, and the Program in Material Culture.


May 5 (Monday) at 4:00 pm

Public Talk: Peter Harrison, Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland
“The Territories of Science and Religion.”

Location: Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., Madison

Presented by The Isthmus Society. Cosponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, the UW Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, and the UW Department of the History of Science


May 9 (Friday) at Noon

No Meeting (AAMH conference in Chicago)


May 16 (Friday) at Noon

Town Hall Meeting.

Location: 204 Bradley Memorial