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 […]
Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule November 16, 2020 | 4:00pm Book Event: Presentation and celebration of Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (University of […]
Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule We will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. Nov 23 Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdeGurzIqGtxldiJYGsO0ROwIFjd72WeD Taylor Moore (UCSB): […]
Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule We will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. Nov 30 Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldumtpz0sEtPww5ISb-MGdBajvEwO8SZP Claire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai […]
