“The Immortal Archives: Nineteenth-Century Science Imagines the Future”
Lorraine Daston (MPI-WG, Berlin). European History Colloquium, cosponsored by History of Science.
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History of Science Colloquium
History of Science Colloquium
5288 Bunche HallMatthew Sargent, Digital Humanities, University of Southern California: “Marriage institutions and the formation of cross-cultural knowledge networks in early modern Southeast Asia”
History of Science Colloquium
5288 Bunche HallJean Pierre Beaud (CIRST, Université de Québec à Montréal) “What is a population? Reflections on two Statistical Descriptions of Canada”
James Secord – “Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire”
5288 Bunche HallJames Secord is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. His research interests include social history of science since 1750, life and earth sciences, and the history of science communication.
Caroline Ford – “Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France”
5288 Bunche HallCaroline Ford is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include modern France, environmental history, and urban and architectural history. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department.
Mary Terrall – “Michel Adanson’s Imagined Plantations: Secrecy, Botanical Knowledge, and French Colonial Policy after the Seven Years’ War”
5288 Bunche HallMary Terrall is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ted Porter and Norton Wise – “Positivism and Revolutions: First-Generation Historiographies of Science”
5288 Bunche HallPlease note: This meeting is designed especially for graduate students, and will be organized as a discussion of short essays about Kuhn and Gillispie. Essays will be circulated to history of science grad students; anyone else who would like to participate can get the papers from Iris (irisclever@ucla.edu)
Kathleen Murphy – “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
5288 Bunche HallKathleen Murphy (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
Adam Mosley & Dibner Fellow – “Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Adam Lawrence – “The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany’s Imaginary Empire”
Adam Lawrence (UCLA)“The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany's Imaginary Empire”
Rob Schraff – “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
Rob Schraff (UCLA) “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
William Deringer – “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776″
William Deringer (MIT) “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776"
