History of Science Colloquium
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.
“Filming and Writing Science”
Royce Hall Member LoungeThe speaker for this colloquium is Peter Galison from Harvard University. Please note that this event will be held in the Royce Hall Member Lounge. Access is at the back, north side of Royce Hall on the upper loading dock, facing parking structure 5 and Rolfe Hall. Enter through the door with the awning that says Artist Entrance.
“Care in the Impossible Science of Gene x Environment Interactions: Penrose to Postgenomics”
The speaker for this colloquium is Michael Fortun from the University of California, Irvine.
“Blood Purity and Scientific Independence in South Korea, 1926-1975”
The speaker for this colloquium is Jaehwan Hyun from the University of California, Los Angeles and Seoul National University.
Peter Dear – “Who Cares about the Scientific Revolution?”
The speaker for this colloquium is Peter Dear from Cornell University.