January 23 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag
Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Special Guest: Jay Malone, History of Science Society
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
January 30 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Dana Freiburger, UW–Madison
Developing new courses in history of science
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
February 6 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Elaine Stroud, Assistant Director, AIHP, UW–Madison
“Unexpected treasures you can’t get online: Art and history of the pharmaceutical sciences found in the Kremers Reference Files.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
February 13 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Nick Jacobson and Zheran Wang, UW–Madison
“Transmission from Samarqand: East and West.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
February 13 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Robin Rider, Curator and Department Head, Special Collections, UW Memorial Library
“Using the Page in Eighteenth-century Mathematics.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).
February 20 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Sam Schweber, Prof. Emeritus, Brandeis University
“Reassessing the quantum revolution.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
February 27 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Jamie Brannon, UW–Madison
“HSS@Work – opportunities for the 99%?”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
March 6 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Luping Wang, Forestry and Wildlife Ecology, UW–Madison
“The history of Chinese biological research, 1920-1949.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
March 12 (Thursday) at 11:00 am
Organic Chemistry Seminar: Catherine Jackson, History of Science Department, UW–Madison
“The ‘Methodical Production of Genius’: Collective Practice and Chemical Theory in Emil Fischer’ Laboratory.” (
Event Poster)
Location: Chemistry, Room 1315
March 13 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Molly Laas, UW–Madison
“The Chemistry of Morality: Designing Nineteenth-Century Prison and Asylum Dietaries in the United States.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
March 13 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Scott Trigg, UW Madison
“Dynamism or Decline in Post-classical Islamic Science? The Case of Fathallah al-Shirwani.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (
Special Collections).
March 20 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Projit Mukharji, Asst. Prof., History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
“Sero-Tropicality: Blood and the Reinvention of Tropical Medicine, 1930-50.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
March 27 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Travis Weisse, UW–Madison
“‘A Farewell to Chitterlings’: Alvenia Fulton, Natural Health Foods, and the Civil Rights Movement.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
April 3 (Friday) at Noon
No Meeting – Spring Break
April 10 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Alan Rocke, Prof. of History, Case Western
“Seeing with the Mind’s Eye: Visual Imagination, Creativity, and the History of Science.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
April 10 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Alan Rocke, Prof. of History, Case Western
“‘Science vs. Practice’: The German Chemist ca. 1860.”
(
Event Poster)
Location: 976 Memorial Library (
Special Collections)
April 16 (Thursday) at 4:00 pm
Symposium: The Life of the Mind: Literature, Aesthetics, and the “sciences de l’homme,” 1700-1900.
Taking place April 16-18, 2015, the purpose of this international and interdisciplinary symposium is to bring together literary scholars and historians of science, medicine, religion and art in order to examine how, in the pre-Freudian age represented by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French and French-speaking writers and thinkers accounted for the idiosyncrasies, alterations, and pathologies of the mind. (
Program) (
Symposium Poster)
Co-sponsored by the Department of History of Science.
Location: Pyle Center (
Map)
April 17 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Gregg Mitman, UW–Madison
“In the Shadow of Ebola: The Public Humanities in Action.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
April 24 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Zheran Wang, UW–Madison and Peking University
“Practical Geometry and Theory of Perspective in the Renaissance.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
April 24 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Colloquium: Guosheng Wu, UW Madison
“The Dissemination of Copernican Astronomy in China.”
Location: 976 Memorial Library (
Special Collections).
May 1 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag: Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental History, UW–Madison Dept. of History
“Baselines for the Anthropocene: Ideas of environmental change in historical perspective.”
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial
May 8 (Friday) at Noon
Town Hall Meeting
Location: 204 Bradley Memorial