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.
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History of Science Colloquium
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.
Amy Woodson-Boulton – “Totemism, ‘Invertebrate Creeds,’ and History as Cultural Evolution: Anthropology and the Victorian Search for a Grand Narrative”
5288 Bunche HallAmy Woodson-Boulton is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.
Michael Osman – “Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America”
5288 Bunche HallMichael Osman is an Associate Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.
Seth LeJacq – “Venereal Disease and Sexual Forensics in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
5288 Bunche HallSeth LeJacq is a historian of medicine, gender, and sexuality at the Huntington Library and Duke University.
Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Theodore Porter, Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity (Princeton Univ. Press, 2018)
6265 Bunche HallDiscussants: 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 an associate professor at UCLA.
