All History of Science Department Events for Fall 2010
September 3 (Friday) at Noon
Brown Bag IntroductionsSeptember 10 (Friday) at Noon
Kellen Backer, Bridget Collins, Brad Moore, and Scott Trigg, UW–Madison “The TAA, and the place of teaching in a graduate career.”September 17 (Friday) at Noon
Sarah Hodges, University of Warwick “Global Histories of Medicine.”September 24 (Friday) at Noon
Rana Hogarth, Yale University “Cachexia Africana: Slave Resistance and Medical Authority in the Americas.”September 28 (Tuesday) at 12:30 pm
Colloquium: Ruth Richardson, Hong Kong University and University of Cambridge Title: “Human Bodies & Their Parts: Appropriations & Donations from Bodysnatching to Transplants.” Note time and location change for this colloquium due to the Presidential visit to the UW campus. Colloquium begins at 12:30pm in Bradley Hall Room 204. One of “Appropriations: Collecting for Science” Colloquium Series talks – see History of Science department news for the schedule of all talks in this series.October 1 (Friday) at Noon
Charlotte Borst, Whittier College (History of Science, UW Madison, 1989) “A Conversation with Charlotte Borst,” currently Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Whittier College, Whittier, California.October 5 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
Colloquium: Dominique Tobell, University of Minnesota Title: “Circulating Knowledge, Appropriating Capital: Building the Pharma-Medical Complex in Post-War America” Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm. One of “Appropriations: Collecting for Science” Colloquium Series talks – see History of Science department news for the schedule of all talks in this series.October 8 (Friday) at Noon
Katie Robinson, UW–Madison “The ‘Vicious Circle’: Obesity in Adolescent Girls as Physiological and Social Pathology, 1956-1972.”October 15 (Friday) at Noon
Christy Clark-Pujara, UW–Madison
“The Hazard Brothers of Rhode Island and the Textile Industry (Negro Cloth) in Antebellum America.”
October 22 (Friday) at Noon
Megan Raby, UW–Madison “Sixty-one Years of Soledad: University and Corporate Science at Harvard’s Research Station in Soledad, Cuba, 1898-1959.”October 22 (Friday) at 3:30 pm
Co-sponsored Lecture: Professor Frederick E. Nelson, University of Delaware “The World’s Most Enterprising Woman Explorer: The Louise Arner Boyd Arctic Expeditions of the American Geographical Society.” Location: Science Hall, Room 180. Co-sponsored with Geography / Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series.October 26 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm
Mellon Science & Print Culture Workshop
Topic: Alternative science & the occult in print culture: From the holdings of Special Collections. Introduction by Ronald Numbers, University of Wisconsin.
Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections).
An A.W. Mellon/Helen C. White Interdisciplinary Workshop in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison with support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the College of Letters and Science.