History of Science Colloquium

May 2016
May 23, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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"
October 2016
October 10, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Courtenay Raia-“William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”

Courtenay Raia (Colson School of Music) “William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
October 17, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Miriam Posner-“Making Sense of the Digital Humanities for Historians of Medicine & Science”
October 24, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

B. Harun Küçük -“The Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Prayer Compass”
October 31, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Ted Porter -“Turning the Tables on Degeneration”
November 2016
November 18, 2016 @ 8:30 am - November 19, 2016 @ 5:00 pm

Histories of Data and the Database
November 21, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Andrew Mendelsohn-“Criticism and the Growth of Method: Autopsy, 1650-1850″
November 28, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Hippolyte Goux- “Class and Calculation: Liberalism and Market Technologies in 19th century France”
January 2017
January 23, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Amir Alexander – “A Space for Free Men: The Cartesian Landscape of America.”
February 2017
February 6, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Elena Aranova, “Bridging Biology and Geophysics in 1970s California: Using Animal as Sensors in the US Geological Survey’s Earthquake Prediction Study”

5288 Bunche Hall
February 13, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Matthew Hunter – “Space, Time, and Chemistry: Making and Defacing Enlightenment Photography” Perloff Hall, “Decafé”

Architecture and Urban Planning
February 27, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Dana Simmons – “Impostor Syndrome, a Reparative History”

5288 Bunche Hall