Discussants: Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA) and Chris Kelty (UCLA, ISG) Soraya de Chadarevian is a Professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics. Chris Kelty is […]
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. October 21: Sari Siegel, Cedars Sinai Program in History […]
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. October 28: Vivien Hamilton, Harvey Mudd College “Competing Virtues […]
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology and Caltech “Some […]
Graduate students from the southern UC campuses in the history of science and allied fields will present papers over the course of the day. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. […]
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. November 18: Scottie Buehler, UCLA “Religion and Ecclesiastical Practices […]
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. November 25: Vivien Hamilton, UCLA “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, […]
Lukas Rieppel, Brown University “Assembling the Dinosaur” Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of late-nineteenth-century discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a […]
Aro Velmet, University of Southern California “Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World” March 2, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288
Otniel Dror, Hebrew University and UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics “Supra-Maximal Super-Pleasure” This talk presents the discovery of a new post-World War II “supramaximal” “super-pleasure” region in the brain (of […]
Deborah Coen, Yale University “Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge” One of the most pressing challenges for historians of science today is to explain the failure of scientific […]
Nov. 2, 2020, 4:00pm, PST Theodore Porter (UCLA), "Democracy Counts: Sacred and Debased numbers" Commentary by Amir Alexander (UCLA) The Trump Administration's systematic rejection of accurate numbers in such domains […]