Colloquia and Brownbags: 2007-2008
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
Introductions and Planning
September 12
Colloquium: Ann Blair, Harvard University
"Managing Information in Big Books, 1500-1700." 4:00 p.m.,
6104 Social Science, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., 7130 Social Science
September 14
Claire Wendland, UW-Madison
"Politics, history and medicine
in post-Banda Malawi."
September 21
Daniel Siegel, UW-Madison
"Isaacson on Einstein: The Annus Mirabilis and All That."
September 26
Colloquium: Jonathan Sadowsky, Case Western Reserve University
"The History of a Side Effect: Electroconvulsive Therapy and Memory Loss, 1938 to the Present." 4:00 p.m., 6104 Social Science, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., 7130 Social Science
September 28
Amrys Williams, UW-Madison
"Head, Heart, Hands and Health: 4H Ecology and Conservation in Wisconsin, 1930-1950."
October 5
Ted Davis, Messiah College
"Robert Andrews Millikan (1863-1953): His Religious Life and Thought."
October 10
Colloquium: Alison Winter, University of Chicago
"Movies in the Brain: Wilder Penfield ane the Sciences of Remembering in
the Mid Twentieth Century." 4:00 p.m., 6104 Social Science, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., 7130 Social Science
October 12
Faculty/Graduate Panel
"NSF Funding: Experiences and Perspecives."
October 19
Jocelyn Bosley and David Meshoulam, UW-Madison
"All I Really Need to Know About the History of
Science I Learned in Middle School."
October 26
Gregg Mitman, UW-Madison
"Introduction to the Tales from Planet Earth
Film Festival."
October 31
Colloquium: Efthymios Nicolaidis, Director of
Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation; Secretary General of the
International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/
Division of History of Science and Technology
"Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: Some Historical
Perspectives." 4:00 p.m., 6104 Social Science, Refreshments 3:45 p.m.,
7130 Social Science
November 2
HSS meeting, Arlington, VA
no brown bag lunch
November 9
Matthew Smith, University of Exeter
"Witchcraft, Fad or Racket: A Pre-peanut History
of Food Allergy."
November 16
Eric Boyle, University of Exeter
"Promising Cures and Conjuring Science: The Direct
Marketing of Drugs to American Doctors in the Early Twentieth Century."
November 23
Thanksgiving
no brown bag lunch
November 30
Lynn Nyhart and Peter Susalla, UW-Madison
"Kids these days: teaching the 'millenial generation'."
December 5
Colloquium: Frederick Gibbs, UW-Madison
'"The venomes doo preserve from diseases': Concepts
and Categories of Poison in the Late Middle Ages." 4:00 p.m., 6104 Social
Science, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., 7130 Social Science
December 7
Sejal Patel, Robert Wood Johnson Fellow,
Population Health Sciences
"The Community and the Individual in American
Medical Research: The Roseto Study in Historical Perspective."
December 14
Town meeting
January 25
Walton Schalick, UW-Madison
"Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disability
and Children, 1000-1400."
February 1
Scott Prinster, UW-Madison
"Who's Watching the Watchers? Why
Some Historians Call Institutional Review Boards a Threat
to Academic Freedom."
February 8
No Meeting
Visual Culture Symposium
February 13
Colloquium: David Rosner, Columbia University
"Trials and Tribulations of a Historian in the
Courtroom: The Case(s) of Lead Poisoned Children in Wisconsin and the
Country." 4:00 p.m., 6102 Social Science, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., 7130
Social Science
February 15
Walton Schalick and Ellen Samuels, UW-Madison
"Enabling Disability Studies at UW."
February 22
Thomas Broman, UW-Madison
"Field Notes from an Awards Committee."
February 29
Richard Keller, UW-Madison
"Chasing Ghosts: Social Ecology, Marginalization,
and the Paris Heat Wave."
March 7
Meridith Beck Sayre, Megan Raby, and Lynnette Regouby,
UW-Madison
"The Natural History of Nearly Everything."
March 12
Colloquium: Joshua Kundert, UW-Madison
"Fluid Technologies of World War II: Fuels, Oil and
Everything in Between." 4:15 p.m., Refreshments 4:00 p.m.,
8417 Social Science
March 14
Amrys Williams, UW-Madison
"A Place for Movies: Thinking about History and Film."
March 21
No Meeting
Spring Break
March 28
BYOI (Bring Your Own Idea) Potluck
April 2
Colloquium: Robert E. Kohler, University of
Pennsylvania
"A Science of the Whole Environment:
Wildlife Ecology." 4:15 p.m., Refreshments 4:00 p.m.,
8417 Social Science
April 4
Judith Holst-Kaplan, UW-Madison
'The "Oriental Science" of James Henry Breasted.'
April 9
Colloquium: Angela N.H. Creager,
Princeton University
"Tracing Radioisotopes Through the Biomedical
Complex, 1935-1955: From Gift Exchange to Commodification in the Atomic
Age." 4:15 p.m., Refreshments 4:00 p.m., 8417 Social Science
cosponsored by the Holtz Center for Science and Technologies Studies
cosponsored by the Holtz Center for Science and Technologies Studies
April 11
Michael Shank and David Lindberg, UW-Madison
"Defining the Scientific Revolution:
the Controversy Over 'Natural Philosophy' and 'Mathematics' From
Aristotle to the 17th Century."
April 18
Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
"Indigenous Health in a Global Frame:
From Community Development to Human Rights."
April 25
Shannon Withycombe, UW-Madison
"Doctors Defining Miscarriage: Meaning-Making
in Pregnancy Loss in Nineteenth-Century America."