History of Science Colloquium

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 of Medicine and UCLA “The Recruitment and Activities of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust”

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 of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy” For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here. 

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 Challenges of Writing Transnational History of Science and Technology” For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here.

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. If you would like lunch, kindly RSVP to ucsocalhistsci@gmail.com.

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 of Midwifery Education in Eighteenth-century France” For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here. 

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, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy” Abstract Very soon after the discovery of x-rays in 1895, enthusiastic doctors began to use the new radiation […]

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 world center for vertebrate paleontology. Around the same time, the United States also emerged as an economic powerhouse of global proportions, and large, fierce, and […]

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 laboratory rats). This discovery of an instantaneously-produced insatiable self-perpetuating super-pleasure captured the imagination of contemporaries and of generations to come. It inaugurated a major transformation […]

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 knowledge of anthropogenic climate change to motivate timely action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To date explanations have focused on such factors as the role […]