Colloquia and Brownbags: 2004-2005
Sept. 3
Introductions and Kick-off (Memorial Union)
Sept. 10
Rennie Schoepflin (La Sierra University): "'The Priest Treats the Soul, the Philosopher Studies the Mind, but the Physician Treats Man': Science, Religion, and Insanity in Progressive America." (Memorial Union)
Wednesday Sept. 15
Colloquium: Susan Lederer (Yale),"Following Frankenstein: Medical Science and the Monster in the 20th Century." 4:00 p.m., 126 Memorial Library
Sept. 17
Thomas Broman (UW-Madison): "Knowledge in Circulation: The Thurn und Taxis Post and the Emergence of the Public in 17th -& 18th-Century Europe." (Memorial Union)
Sept. 24
Andrew Ruis (UW-Madison): "Bringing the Laboratory to the Street: The Bacteriological Diagnosis of Diphtheria in Late Nineteenth-Century New York City." (Memorial Union)
Wednesday September 29
Colloquium: Thomas Soderqvist (University of Copenhagen), "Is Biography Entertainment, Commemoration, History, or Moral Tale? Lessons from Writing the Life and Work of Niels Jerne." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science
Oct. 1
Thomas Soderqvist (University of Copenhagen): "Representing Recent Biomedicine-A Museological Challenge." (Memorial Union)
Oct. 8
(SHOT meeting, Amsterdam)-Erika Milam (UW-Madison): "The Experimental Animal from the Natularist's Point of View'-Behavior and Evolution at the AMNH, 1928-1954."
Wednesday October 13
CANCELLED
Colloquium: Michael Adas (Rutgers University), "Engineers' Imperialism: Progressivism and America's Civilizing Mission in the Phillipines." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science
Oct. 15
Ron Rainger (NSF): "Science, Skill or Service: American Oceanography in the Mid Twentieth Century." Union South
Oct. 22
Ronald Numbers (UW-Madison):"What Hath Science Wrought? Secularization and Science Revisited." Memorial Union
Oct. 29
Robin Rider and Micaela Sullivan-Fowler (UW-Libraries): New Search Tools (Memorial Union)
Wednesday Nov. 3
Colloquium: Richard Staley (UW-Madison), "On the Co-Creation of Classical and Modern Physics." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science
Nov. 5
Jonathan Seitz (UW-Madison): "Science in the Holy Office: The Inquisition and Views of Nature in Early Modern Venice." (Memorial Union)
Nov. 12
Dan O'Connor (Warwick): "Wife a Man": The April Ashley Divorce Trial and the Legal Definition of Sex in Postwear England. (Union South)
Nov. 19
(HSS meeting, Austin);
Daniel Siegel and Richard Staley (UW-Madison): Discussion of Peter Galison's book, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time(New York and London: Norton, 2003). (Memorial Union)
Nov. 26
Thanksgiving holiday: no brown bag
Dec. 3
Libbie Freed (UW-Madison): "Thinking outside 'the West': Globalizing the History of Science Curriculum." (Union South)
Dec. 10
Town meeting (Memorial Union)
Dec. 17
(Exam week)
Jan. 21
Ray Harris, (UW-Madison), "Spanish Medical Terminology and Lexicography in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Science and Society in Spain and Spanish America." (Memorial Union)
Jan. 28
Dana Freiburger, (UW-Madison), "Traces of Gold: Science and Scientific Instruments at Santa Clara College, California, 1851-1878." (Memorial Union)
Wednesday Feb. 2
Colloquium: Lynn K. Nyhart (UW-Madison), "Caring for Nature: Practical zoology and nature protection in nineteenth-century Germany." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science.
Feb. 4
Judith Leavitt (UW Madison), on Typhoid Mary, history, and film (Memorial Union)
Feb. 11
Brent Ruswick (UW Madison), "The Paupers and the Poor: Finding a Worthy Man in 1880s America." (Memorial Union)
Feb. 18
Chucho Alvarado (UW Madison), "From Colonial Comercio Libre to Independent Free Trade in Mexico, 1750-1829." (Union South)
Wednesday Feb. 23
Dorothy Porter (Univ of CA-San Francisco), William Snow Miller Lecture: "The Changing Social Contract of Health from the French Revolution to the Obesity Wars." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science.
Feb. 25
Workshop: Imagining the Body in Early Modern Europe. Prof. Lee Wandel (UW-History); Jonathan Seitz (graduate student, UW-History of Science); and Ralph Drayton (Ph.D., UW-History of Science), Judith Houck (UW-Madison-Medical History), comments. 2:00-4:00 p.m., 7191 Helen C. White Hall.
Mar. 4
Mats Fridlund (Visiting Asst. Professor of History and International Studies, Northwestern University), "The Tools of Terror: Towards a History of the Science and Technology of Terrorism." (Memorial Union)
Wednesday Mar. 9
William Coleman Lecture: David Cahan (University of Nebraska, Dibner Inst.), "Helmholtz as American Idol: The Ideals of Science and Culture in the Gilded Age." 3:30 p.m., 6102 Social Science.
Mar. 11
Eric Schatzberg (UW-Madison), "Hidden Meanings in a Keyword: The Unknown History of 'Technology'". (Memorial Union)
Mar. 18
Dan O?Connor (UW-Madison), "Like no Women I've ever Seen": Soviets, Sports and Sex Anxiety in the Cold War." (Memorial Union)
Mar. 25
No meeting: Spring Break
Wednesday Mar. 30
University Lecture: Michael Adas (Rutgers University), "Engineers' Imperialism: Progressivism and America's Civilizing Mission in the Philippines." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science.
Apr. 1
Jeffrey Resnick, "Researching the Great War: Process, Product, and Purpose." (Union South)
Wednesday Apr. 6
University Lecture: Peter Harrison (University of Queensland, Australia), "The Origins of Modern Science: Was Religion a Factor?" Note time and place: 4 p.m., 2650 Mosse Humanities Building.
Apr. 8
Rebecca Kinraide (UW-Madison), "Useful Knowledge Then and Now: The SDUK and its intellectual offspring." (Memorial Union)
Apr. 15
Steve Wald (UW-Madison), "Making Room for Mentalism: Limits of the Neo-Behaviorist Regime." (Memorial Union)
Apr. 22
Matthew Lavine (UW-Madison), "'Trashy' Histories of Science: The View from Barnes and Noble." (Memorial Union)
Apr. 29
Adam Shapiro (University of Chicago), "The 'Evolution' of an Emerging Literalism." (Memorial Union)
Wednesday May 4
Colloquium: David Edgerton (Imperial College, London), "The Uses of Things: Technology and the History of the Twentieth Century." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science.
May 6
Giovanni Zanalda (Johns Hopkins University), "From Obsisional Currency to Credit Money Schemes: The Rise and Fall of Paper Money in the Writings of Eighteenth-Century Italian Authors." (Union South)