“The Immortal Archives: Nineteenth-Century Science Imagines the Future”
Lorraine Daston (MPI-WG, Berlin). European History Colloquium, cosponsored by History of Science.
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History of Science Colloquium
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History of Science Colloquium
5288 Bunche HallMatthew Sargent, Digital Humanities, University of Southern California: “Marriage institutions and the formation of cross-cultural knowledge networks in early modern Southeast Asia”
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History of Science Colloquium
5288 Bunche HallJean Pierre Beaud (CIRST, Université de Québec à Montréal) “What is a population? Reflections on two Statistical Descriptions of Canada”
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James Secord – “Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire”
5288 Bunche HallJames Secord is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. His research interests include social history of science since 1750, life and earth sciences, and the history of science communication.
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Caroline Ford – “Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France”
5288 Bunche HallCaroline Ford is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include modern France, environmental history, and urban and architectural history. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department.
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Mary Terrall – “Michel Adanson’s Imagined Plantations: Secrecy, Botanical Knowledge, and French Colonial Policy after the Seven Years’ War”
5288 Bunche HallMary Terrall is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Ted Porter and Norton Wise – “Positivism and Revolutions: First-Generation Historiographies of Science”
5288 Bunche HallPlease note: This meeting is designed especially for graduate students, and will be organized as a discussion of short essays about Kuhn and Gillispie. Essays will be circulated to history of science grad students; anyone else who would like to participate can get the papers from Iris (irisclever@ucla.edu)
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Kathleen Murphy – “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
5288 Bunche HallKathleen Murphy (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
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Adam Mosley & Dibner Fellow – “Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
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Adam Lawrence – “The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany’s Imaginary Empire”
Adam Lawrence (UCLA)“The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany's Imaginary Empire”
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Rob Schraff – “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
Rob Schraff (UCLA) “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
