History of Science Colloquium
Robin D.G. Kelley – “Contexts of Crisists: Danger, Opportunity, and the Unknown”
Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room
Eric Scerri – “A Tale of Seven Scientists”
5288 Bunche Hall“Baking Powder Ward: The Cutthroat Fight that Revolutionized Cooking”
The speaker for this colloquium is Linda Civitello, a recent PhD candidate in the UCLA Department of History.
Workshop: Bureaucratic Data: Knowledge Production across Science, Commerce, and the State.
Speakers for this History of Science Workshop include: Maura Dykstra (Caltech), "The legal, the illegal, and the un-legal archive in late imperial China." Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard), "The Creation of the Qing 'Open Archive." Renee Raphael (UC Irvine), "Purposeful bureaucratic disorder in Philip II’s Empire?: Why Juan de Hinestrosa thought his Relation of the discovery of New Potosi would […]
“Teaching the Teacher about Science: The California State Normal School”
Speaker for this colloquium is Michael Weismeyer, a graduate student in the UCLA Department of History.
“Tuning the world. A global history of acoustics at the crossroads of aesthetics, politics, science and industry (1834-1939)”
The speaker for this colloquium is Fanny Gribenski, a Huntington Library Fellow from the Université d'Évry Val d'Essonne.
“Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origin of the British Museum”
The speaker for this colloquium is James Delbourgo from Rutgers University.
