Colloquia and Brownbags: 2006-2007
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 8
Introductions and planning
September 11
Colloquium: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University
"The Life of Money and the Afflictions of the Body." 3:45 p.m., 8417 Social
Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
September 15
Linda Hogle, UW-Madison
"Everything you always wanted to know about STS at the UW, but
were afraid to ask."
September 22
Rosalind Hearder, UW-Madison
"This war never ends: medical and psychological legacies
of Japanese captivity for Allied POWs after 1945."
September 30
Daniel O'Connor, UW-Madison
"Are transsexuals magic? Transsexuality and the technology
of history."
October 6
Gail Schmitt, Princeton
"Modeling Cytoplasmic Inheritance: The Debate between Ruth Sager
and Nicholas Gillham."
October 11
Colloquium: Jim Jones, Author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee
Syphilis Experiment
"The Agony of Hope: The Decision to Put David in the Bubble."
3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
October 13
Ronald Numbers, UW-Madison
"The Twenty-Five Greatest Myths in the History of Science and Religion."
October 20
Judith Helfand, NYU
"When Toxic Comedy becomes a necessary genre you know you're in trouble:
Translating the gruesome realities and un-BELIEVABILITIES of our time into subversive cinema and
laugh out loud activist propaganda (with foot notes)."
Meeting in conjunction with the Environmental History Colloquium.
Meeting in conjunction with the Environmental History Colloquium.
October 25
Colloquium: Amy Bix, Iowa State
"Technical Knockout: America's 'Engineering, Science,
and Management War Training Program' of the 1940s."
3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
October 27
Peter Susalla, UW-Madison
"Conflict or Consensus? The Neglected Middle Ground
Between 'Old' and 'New' Astronomy, 1890-1910."
November 3
Jon Roberts, Boston University
"The Long War between Theologians and Psychologists
in America, 1830-1940."
November 10
Steve Paulson, Wisconsin Public Radio
"Science vs. Religion: What's Really at Stake in this Debate."
November 15
Colloquium: Jesus Alvarado, UW-Madison
"Weaving Mexican History: Cotton Textile Artisans
and Political Economy."
3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
November 17
Gregg Mitman, UW-Madison
"Great White Hunting: Confronting Issues of Race, Science, and Conservation on Film."
November 24
Thanksgiving break-no meeting
November 29
Medical History and Bioethics Brown Bag
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
"Cochlear Implants and College Protests: How History Illuminates
Current Struggles in the Deaf Community." 3:30, 1490 Medical Sciences Center
November 30
Mellon Seminar
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
"The Death of Deaf Culture or a Biomedical Miracle?
Coclear Implants in Historical Perspective." 4 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White Hall
December 1
Kellen Backer, Fred Gibbs, Andrew Ruis, and Amrys Williams, UW-Madison
"Food Forum"
December 8
Gabriela Soto-Laveaga, UCSB; Ford Foundation Fellow, UW
"Hunting for Molecules, Finding Rebellion: Mexican Peasants and Global Quest
for Steroid Hormones, 1949-1989."
December 13
Colloquium: Jeff Jentzen, UW-Madison
"The American Death Investigation System: Coroners, Medical
Examiners, and the Search for Medical Certainty."
3:45 p.m., 6102 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
December 15
Town meeting
January 26
Christina Matta and Richard Staley, UW-Madison
"A Graduate Student's Guide to Publishing."
February 2
Kellen Backer, UW-Madison
"World War II and the Creation of American Food."
February 8
Colloquium: Naomi Oreskes, University of CA-San Diego
"Opportunities and Opportunism: How Cold War Military Oceanographers
Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists Who Would Resolve the Question of
Global Warming."
3:45 p.m., 8417 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
February 9
Leah DeVun, UW-Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
"Cures and Creations: Surgery and Intersex Bodies in the Middle Ages."
February 16
Warwick Anderson, UW-Madison
"Racial Laboratories and Reproductive Frontiers: The
Twentieth-Century Sciences of Race-Mixing in the Pacific."
February 19
Colloquium: Susan Reverby, Wellesley College
"Testifying on Tuskegee: Telling the Tuskegee Syphilis
Study Stories."
3:45 p.m., 6240 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
February 23
Bridget Collins, UW-Madison
"The Sleeping Porch: From the Sanatorium to Better Homes and
Gardens."
February 28
Colloquium: Matthew Lavine, UW-Madison
"That Healthy Glow: Patient Perspectives on Early Medical
Applications of Radium and X-rays."
3:45 p.m., 6240 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
March 2
Rick Keyser, UW-Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
"Sustainable Woodland Management in Medieval France."
March 21
Colloquium: Blair Nelson, UW-Madison
"Religious Writers, Scientific Reputations, and the Race
Debate: Religious Assessments of American Polygenists, 1849-1874."
3:45 p.m., 6240 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
March 2
Rick Keyser, UW-Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
"Sustainable Woodland Management in Medieval France."
March 9
Jane Camerini, UW-Madison
"Tent Colony Chronicle."
March 16
Amrys Williams, Christina Matta, Mitch Aso, UW-Madison
"Cultures and Cultivation."
March 21
Colloquium: Blair Nelson, UW-Madison
"Religious Writers, Scientific Reputations, and the Race
Debate: Religious Assessments of American Polygenists, 1849-1874."
3:45 p.m., 6240 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
March 23
Abby Kinchy, UW-Madison PhD candidate-Sociology
"African Americans in the Atomic Age: Perspectives
on the Bomb, 1945-1955."
March 30
Lynn Nyhart, UW-Madison
"What Could Anyone Possibly Say About Darwin That's New."
April 11
Colloquium: Karen Walloch, UW-Madison
"'A Trying Ordeal at Best': Anxiety About Vaccination During
the 1901-1902 Smallpox Epidemic."
3:45 p.m., 6240 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
May 2
Colloquium: Robert A. Nye, Oergon State University
"Why Sex is Gender (Again)."
3:45 p.m., 6240 Social Science, Refreshments 3:30 p.m., 7130 Social Science
May 4
Bridget Collins, Mitch Aso, Kellen Backer, UW-Madison
"Minors, Joint Majors, and Courses Taken Outside the Department."
May 11
town meeting