January 22 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, UW–Madison “Blood Testing and Fear of the False in British India.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 29 (Friday) at 3:45 pm Colloquium: Scott Gerard Prinster …
January 2017 Andrew Stuhl, a History of Science department alumni who earned his Ph.D. in 2013 and is now Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, has been awarded a 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars for his dissertation Empires on Ice: Science, Nature, and the Making of the Modern Arctic. This …
January 2017 Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s forthcoming book, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, will come out in April from University of North Carolina Press. As described by the publisher, “Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body …
January 20 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Rachel Gross, History “Wear a hat to keep your feet warm, and other lessons from the Science of Dressing during World War II.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 27 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Judy Houck & Nicole Nelson, History of Science “Getting your first article published.” Location: …
September 9 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome, introductions, and planning for the semester. For the remainder of the hour, we’ll have an informal discussion about current problems with academic publishing, which seems increasingly dysfunctional. Check out this recent Atlantic article for a quick overview of some of the key issues. Location: 204 Bradley Memorial …
November 2016 History of Science alumna Megan Raby has received the 2016 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize presented at the recent History of Science Society (HSS) annual meeting in Atlanta. Awarded for the best article in the HSS journal Isis published in issues three years prior to the year in which the award is given, Megan …
October 2016 Catherine Jackson, Assistant Professor in the History of Science department, gave the keynote talk at the recent meeting of the Midwest Section of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society (ASGS) held on September 24th at the UW–Madison campus. She spoke about the kaliapparat – a new kind of glass apparatus developed in 1830 by …
September 2016 Melissa Charenko, a dissertator in the History of Science dept., will be presenting details on her research work at the upcoming 2016 Introductory Symposium put on by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine based in Philadelphia. This event will be streamed ‘live’ starting at 9:50 AM (EDT) on September 28, …
July 2016 Having defended his dissertation “From Samarqand to Istanbul: Astronomy and Scientific Education in the commentaries of Fatḥallāh al-Shirwānī,” Scott Trigg will take up in August a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program at the University of Notre Dame. Scott will continue pursuing his research in history of …
July 2016 Daniel Liu, who recently completed his Ph.D. degree with a dissertation titled “Visions of Life and Matter: Protoplasm, Scientific Microscopy, and the Origins of Molecular Biology, 1839-1941,” will become one of the two inaugural 2016–18 IPRH-Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in Bio-Humanities at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) starting …