Past Event Category: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
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Oct 2HSMT Colloquium: “Making History and Telling Stories: Bernard de Colmont and the Lost Maya”
Richard Jobs (Pacific University)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N Park St.
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Coloquium Series Richard Ivan Jobs (Rick) is Professor of Modern European History at Pacific University in Oregon, USA. His books include In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism with Steven Van Wolputte (MQUP, 2025), Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago, 2017), …
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Apr 10“Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Re-thinking Abortion in Early America”
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
History of Science Medicine and Technology Colloquium Series Co-sponsored by History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Program and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics
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Mar 20“The Dubious Scientific Foundations of 21st Century Eugenics”
Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series
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Jan 23History of Science Medicine and Technology Colloquium with Honghong Tinn
Honghong Tinn (University of Minnesota)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
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Apr 25“From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961”
Sara B. Pritchard
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“From Blue to Black Marble: Satellites and the Making of the Nocturnal Planetary Since 1961” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sara B. Pritchard (Cornell University) Historians, environmental humanists, and others have explored how the global Cold War, space race, International Geophysical Year, remote sensing, and their associated technologies enabled new conceptualizations of …
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Apr 4“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing”
Sarah Richardson
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Baselines, Thresholds, Mechanisms, and Magnitudes: Riddles of Sex in Drug Safety Testing” W.S. Miller Memorial Lectureship History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Sarah S. Richardson (Harvard University) Sarah Richardson is Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, where she has taught …
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Mar 19“Ryan White, HIV/AIDS, and the Politics of Innocence” – Paul Renfro
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“Ryan White, HIV/AIDS, and the Politics of Innocence” Paul Renfro (Florida State University) In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through …
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Mar 7“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” – Ayo Adegbite
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Ayo Adegbite (UW–Madison) Sponsored by Department of History
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Feb 7“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” – Taylor M. Moore
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Taylor M. Moore (UC Santa Barbara) Taylor M. Moore is a historian of science, medicine, and race in the Modern Middle East, specializing in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Egypt. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections …
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Oct 18HSMT Colloquium: Travis Weisse, “The Atomic Balm: Diet, Radiation, Cancer, and the Cold War”
Curti Lounge (Mosse Humanities, Room 5233)
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series “The Atomic Balm: Diet, Radiation, Cancer, and the Cold War” Travis Weisse (New Mexico State University) Travis Weisse is a Visiting College Assistant Professor in Sociology and in Public Health at New Mexico State University. His research examines the social and cultural history of dieting, longevity, wellness, …