January 26 (Friday) at Noon
Christina Matta and Richard Staley, UW–Madison
“A Graduate Student’s Guide to Publishing.”
February 2 (Friday) at Noon
Kellen Backer, UW–Madison
February 8 (Thursday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
“Opportunities and Opportunism: How Cold War Military Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists Who Would Resolve the Question of Global Warming.”
Location: 8417 Social Science
February 9 (Friday) at Noon
Leah DeVun, UW–Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
“Cures and Creations: Surgery and Intersex Bodies in the Middle Ages.”
February 16 (Friday) at Noon
Warwick Anderson, UW–Madison
“Racial Laboratories and Reproductive Frontiers: The Twentieth-Century Sciences of Race-Mixing in the Pacific.”
February 19 (Monday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Susan Reverby, Wellesley College
“Testifying on Tuskegee: Telling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Stories.”
Location: 6240 Social Science
February 23 (Friday) at Noon
Bridget Collins, UW–Madison
“The Sleeping Porch: From the Sanatorium to
Better Homes and Gardens.”
February 28 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Matthew Lavine, UW–Madison
“That Healthy Glow: Patient Perspectives on Early Medical Applications of Radium and X-rays.”
Location: 6240 Social Science
March 2 (Friday) at Noon
Rick Keyser, UW–Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
“Sustainable Woodland Management in Medieval France.”
March 9 (Friday) at Noon
Jane Camerini, UW–Madison
“Tent Colony Chronicle.”
March 16 (Friday) at Noon
Amrys Williams, Christina Matta, Mitch Aso, UW–Madison
“Cultures and Cultivation.”
March 21 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Blair Nelson, UW–Madison
“Religious Writers, Scientific Reputations, and the Race Debate: Religious Assessments of American Polygenists, 1849-1874.”
Location: 6240 Social Science
March 23 (Friday) at Noon
Abby Kinchy, PhD candidate, Sociology, UW–Madison
“African Americans in the Atomic Age: Perspectives on the Bomb, 1945-1955.”
March 30 (Friday) at Noon
Lynn Nyhart, UW–Madison
“What Could Anyone Possibly Say About Darwin That’s New.”
April 11 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Karen Walloch, UW–Madison
“‘A Trying Ordeal at Best’: Anxiety About Vaccination During the 1901-1902 Smallpox Epidemic.”
Location: 6240 Social Science
May 2 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm
Colloquium: Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University
“Why Sex is Gender (Again).”
Location: 6240 Social Science
May 4 (Friday) at Noon
Bridget Collins, Mitch Aso, Kellen Backer, UW–Madison
“Minors, Joint Majors, and Courses Taken Outside the Department.”
May 11 (Friday) at Noon
Town Meeting