Stefano Gattei – “Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables: The Hidden Message of the Engraved Frontispiece”
5288 Bunche HallThe speaker for this colloquium is Stefano Gattei from the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at CalTech University.
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History of Science Colloquium
Robin Scheffler – “A Contagious Cause: The Search for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of American Biomedicine”
5288 Bunche HallThe speaker for this colloquium is Robin Scheffler from MIT.
Dora Vargha – “Hungary, the Cold War and the making of socialist international health”
5288 Bunche HallThe speaker for this colloquium is Dora Vargha from Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter.
Antoine Lentacker – “Ontology of the Side Effect: Anecdote and Evidence in the Digital Age”
5288 Bunche HallThe speaker for this colloquium is Antoine Lentacker from the History Department at UC Riverside.
Jemma Lorenat – “Certain Modern Ideas: the History, Mathematics, and Philosophy of Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931)”
5288 Bunche HallThe speaker for this colloquium is Jemma Lorenat from the Mathematics Department at Pitzer College.
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley – “From Kenyan Particulars to Global Universals: Making Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets into a Biomedical Technology”
5288 Bunche HallMonday Colloquium October 8 4 pm, Bunche 5288 Kirsten Moore-Sheeley will give the first talk in the colloquium series this year. Kirsten has a postdoctoral position in the new Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine, and she will be teaching a course on the history of global health (Hist 179A) in Winter 2019. The […]
New Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Norton Wise, Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society
6275 Bunche HallDiscussants for this event will be Kevin Lambert (Cal State Fullerton) and David Sabean (UCLA).
Claire Edington – “How to Write a Social History of Psychiatry: Lessons from the Archives of Colonial Vietnam”
5288 Bunche HallClaire Edington is an Assistant Professor of History at UC San Diego.
Special Reception and Presentation of Biomedical Rare Book Collections by Russell Johnson
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Biomedical Library, Rare Book Room
Sabine Arnaud – “The Specter of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century”
6275 Bunche HallHistory of Science and Medicine Colloquium November 13, 2018 12 - 1:30 6275 Bunche (History Department Conference Room) Sabine Arnaud, CNRS and Centre Koyré, Paris “The Specter of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century” Abstract: While tracing the scope of the French Republican project promoting speech in […]
Martha Lampland – “ ‘From Each according to their Ability, to Each according to their Need’: Calorie Money and Technical Norms in Mid-20th-century Hungary”
5288 Bunche HallMartha Lampland is a Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.
Etienne Benson – “Data-Intensive Ecology and the New Biopolitics of Animal Conservation”
6265 Bunche HallEtienne Benson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a historian of the environmental sciences, environmentalism, and human-animal relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries.
