Colloquia and Brownbags: 2005-2006
Brown Bag talks are usually held in Memorial Union;
consult
Today in the Union on Friday morning for the room
assignment, or check the list posted in the Union. Some Brown
Bags are held in Union South or the Red Gym; see the specific
entry for details.
September 7
Colloquium: Brent Ruswick, Dissertator, UW-Madison
"From 'Pauper Menace' to the Poor: Scientific Charity and the
Origins of Modern American Analysis of Poverty." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social
Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
September 9
Introductions and planning
September 16
Richard Keller, UW-Madison
"Histories of Heat and Death in France:
Aging, Insecurity, and the Social Ecology of Catastrophe."
September 23
Edward Larson, University of Georgia
"Science in the Heroic Age of Antarctic
Exploration."
September 28
Colloquium: Suzanne Marchand (Department of History, Louisiana State University)
"Sven Hedin, 'Scientific' Traveler in a Post-Imperialist
Age." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m.,
7130 Social Science
September 30
Shannon Withycombe, UW-Madison
"The Perils of Patient Records:
Interpreting Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin."
October 7
Fran Bernstein, Drew University
"Raw Nerves: Doctors, Impotence, and
the Crisis of Virility in Revolutionary Russia."
October 12
Colloquium: Helen Rozwadowski (Department of History,
University of Connecticut-Avery Point)
"Scripps Island and the 1960s Ocean:
An Episode in Marine Environmental History." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social
Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
October 14
Helen Rozwadowski (Department of History, University of Connecticut-Avery Point)
"What I learned from Public History."
October 21
Rebecca Messbarger, (Washington
University in St. Louis)
"As Who Dare Gaze the Sun: Anna Morandi
Manzolini’s Wax Anatomies of the Male Reproductive System and
Genitalia."
October 26
Colloquium: Libbie Freed (Dissertator, UW-Madison)
"Negotiating Order and Space: The
Technological and Ideological Construction of Roads in
Colonial French Central Africa." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science,
Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
October 28
Dana Freiburger (UW-Madison)
"The Influence of Hilger Spectroscopes
in Japan."
November 4
HSS/SHOT meeting, Minneapolis-no brown bag
November 11
Kevin Chang, (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
"From Aspirant to Critic: Georg Ernst Stahl's Views
of Alchemy in Transition and the Context of their Publications."
November 16
Chauncey Leake Lecture: Rebecca Skloot
(Popular Science and Nova ScienceNOW)
"Hela: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Slacks."
3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science,
Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
November 18
Robin Rider, Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, and friends
(UW-Madison Libraries)
"Stem Cells and U(W)."
November 25
Thanksgiving-No Brown Bag
November 30
Colloquium: Erika Lorraine Milam (Dissertator, UW-Madison)
"Vindication of 'the field': Evolution,
behavior, and sex in the 1970s." 3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science,
Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
December 2
Mark Lattery, (Physicist, UW-Oshkosh)
"Impetus, Psychogenesis, and the History of Science"
December 9
Town meeting
Jan. 20
Judith Houck, UW-Madison
Course Evaluations
Jan. 27
Thomas Broman, UW-Madison
"Medical Advice and the Enlightened Reader:
'Anonymous Expertise' in the Hamburg weekly, Der Arzt."
Wednesday Feb. 1
Colloquium: Frances Bernstein
"Marriages from Red to White: Hygiene,
Eugenics, and the Sexless Socialist Family." 3:30 p.m., 1490 Medical
Sciences Center
Feb. 3
Richard Keller, UW-Madison
"Polio is Everywhere."
Feb. 10
Adam Nelson, UW-Madison
"Nationalist Science and International Academic Travel
in the Early Nineteenth Century: Geological Surveys and Global Economics, 1800-1840."
Wednesday Feb. 15
Colloquium: Isabelle Baszanger(Centre National de la Researche
Scientifique, Paris)
"Tensions at the Threshold Between Life and Death."
3:45 p.m., 6203 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
Feb. 17
Victor Hilts, UW-Madison
"Looking Backward in the New Deal: The Image of Pioneer Self-sufficiency."
Feb. 24
History of Science Symposium
Global Networks in the History of Science
Global Networks in the History of Science
Alison Sandman (James Madison University), Florence Hsia (UW-History of Science),
Camilo Quintero (Dissertator, UW-History of Science), comments. 2:00-4:15 p.m., 8417 Social Science (Sewell Room)
Mar. 3
David Lindberg, Thomas Broman and Michael Shank, UW-Madison
"Was There a Scientific Revolution?"
Wednesday Mar. 8
Colloquium, William Coleman Lecture:
John Harley Warner (Yale University)
"The Aesthetic Grounding of
Modern Medicine." 3:50 p.m., 6104 Social Science,
Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
Mar. 10
Matthew Lavine and Andrew Ruis, UW-Madison
"The Dissertation"
Mar. 17
Spring Break
Wednesday Mar. 22
Colloquium: Alice Domurat Dreger
(Northwestern University)
"One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future
of Normal." 3:45 p.m., 6203 Social Science,
Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
Mar. 24
Shawn Peters, UW-Madison
"Like Jonestown in Slow Motion: Religion-Based
Medical Neglect of Children and the Law."
Wednesday Mar. 29
Colloquium: Stephen Wald, dissertator,
UW-Madison
"Minds Divided: Science, Religion and
Contested Meanings of the Split-Brain." 3:50 p.m., 6104 Social Science,
Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
Mar. 31
Paul Erickson, UW-Madison
"Game Theory and the New Left."
Apr. 7
Jane Camerini, UW-Madison
"Maps, Again."
Apr. 14
Deborah Blum, UW-Madison
"Ghost Hunters: William James and the Scientific Search
for Life after Death."
Apr. 21
Lynn Nyhart, UW-Madison and John Carson, Univ of Michigan
"Doonesbury and the History of Science."
Apr. 28
no brown bag lunch
Wednesday May 3
Colloquium: Giora Hon (University
of Haifa)
"From Summetria to Symmetry: The Introduction
of Symmetry into Science." 3:50 p.m., 6104 Social Science,
Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
May 5
town meeting