HSTM at the University of Minnesota: November 2008

Check out this audio file with the Dutch pronunciations for Huygens and Leeuwenhoek. Now you've got a semester to practice before Michel gets back.

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog for the program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine! This blog is meant to be a forum for any number of HSTM related subjects. I would hope that this blog can be a place where current faculty and grad students can discuss weekly colloquia, where alumni and others can post about upcoming articles, books, and general updates (both personal and professional), and where general HSTM ideas, events, and discussions can be posted on a regular basis. Please feel free to post at any time. Everybody is welcome.

If you have any questions about the colloquium schedule or any specific questions about the program you should contact Barbara Eastwold, the administrative assistant for the program, as I am merely a blog administrator/graduate student and wield no real power.

HSTM Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2009

Lectures are held on Fridays at 3:35 p.m. in room 131 of the Tate Laboratory of Physics on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota unless otherwise noted (refreshments at 3:15 p.m. in room 216). All are welcome.

January 23
Annual Science Studies Symposium*

Douglas Allchin
Program in History of Science and Technology, and
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota
"Teaching Science Lawlessly"

Naomi Scheman
Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota
"Objectivity as Trustworthiness"

Alan Gross
Department of Communications Studies
University of Minnesota
"Verbal–Visual Interaction in Science"

January 30
David Sepkoski
Department of History
University of North Carolina
"Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge, and the 'True' History of Punctuated Equilibria"

February 6
Hugh Gorman
Department of Social Sciences
Michigan Technological University
"The Story of N: Sustainability and Society's Changing Interaction with the Nitrogen Cycle"

February 13
David Schmit
Department of Psychology
College of St. Catherine
"Sympathetic Contagions and Investment Scheme Crazes: Mesmerism and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Social Influence"

February 20
Peter Richerson*
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Davis
"Darwinian Evolutionary Ethics: Between Patriotism and Sympathy"

February 27
Nathan Ensmenger
Department of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
"Is Chess the Drosophila of AI? Computer Games as Experimental Technologies in Artificial Intelligence"

March 6
John Powers***
Department of History
Virginia Commonwealth University
"Herman Boerhaave and the Demarcation of Chemistry from Alchemy"

March 13
No colloquium: Spring Break

March 20
No colloquium: Spring Break

March 27
Frederick Kronz*
National Science Foudatin
"On Actual and Virtual Chances"

April 3
Chandra Mukerji**
Communication Studies
University of California, San Diego
"Impersonal Rule: Logistical Power and the Canal du Midi"

April 10
Richard Burkhardt
Department of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Studying Behavior Biologically: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology"

April 17
Special Colloquium in Honor of Alan E. Shapiro
Jed Z. Buchwald
Department of History
California Institute of Technology
Noel M. Swerdlow
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago

April 24
Jon Marks *
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
"Evolution and Relativism"

May 1
Kathryn Steen
Department of History & Politics
Drexel University
"What's 'The Big Idea'?: Patents and the Ideology of Invention"

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