Klopsteg Lecture Series, 2009-10
All lectures are open to the public, thanks to the generosity of the Klopsteg fund,
and are held in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall Rom 201) on Mondays from 4pm-5:30pm.
FALL
October 5. 2009
Alice Dreger (Department of Medical Humanities, Northwestern)
"Galileo's Middle Finger: Science and Identity Politics in the Internet Age"
October 19. 2009
Yarí Pérez Marín (Spanish and Portuguese Department, Northwestern)
"New World Bodies: Anatomy and Physiology in Early Colonial Mexican Texts”
November 2, 2009
Francisco Portugal (SHC, Northwestern and Psychology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
“Psychology and Education in Brazil's First Republic, 1889-1930”
November 9, 2009
Daniel Margocsy (SHC and History, Northwestern)
“The Camel's Head: Picturing Exotica in Sixteenth-Century Europe”
November 16, 2009
Jeanette Colyvas (School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern)
“Ubiquity and Legitimacy, Examining the Relationship between Diffusion and Institutionalization in the Academic Life Sciences”
WINTER
January 25, 2010
Lindsay Smith (SHC and Anthropology, Northwestern)
“‘Bring Them Back Alive’: Negotiating Genetics and Identity in Post-dictatorship Argentina”
February 1, 2010
Kelly Moore (Sociology, Loyola University-Chicago)
“The Nourished Neoliberal: Dietary Regimes, Market, and Citizenship in the U.S.”
February 8, 2010
Gregg Mitman (History of Science Department, Madison)
"Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire"
February 15, 2010
Jennifer Reardon (Sociology Department, UC Santa Cruz)
"Finding Oprah's Roots, Losing the World: Beyond the Liberal Anti-Racist Genome."
February 22, 2010
Karin Knorr Cetina (Anthropology, U Chicago)
"Maverick Markets: The Financial Imagination and Financial Knowledge"
March 1, 2010
Kapil Raj (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
"The Brokered City: Managing Encounter, Making Knowledge in Calcutta, 1690-1820"
SPRING: LATIN AMERICA SERIES
April 5, 2010
Antonio Barrera (History Department, Colgate)
TBD: Early modern colonial science in Latin America
April 12, 2010
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (History Department, University of Texas at Austin)
"Fighting Demons while Crossing the Oceans: The Iberian Roots of British and Dutch Cosmography"
April 26, 2010
Michelle Molina (Religious Studies Department, Northwestern)
"Circulations: Heart and Science in the Catholic Atlantic World"
May 3, 2010
Cori Hayden (Anthropology Department, UC Berkeley)
"Generic Specificities: Pharmaceutical access and the Making of New Same Things"
May 17, 2010
Kristin Ruggiero (History Department, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
"Foreign Contagion and Honor in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Buenos Aires"
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