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KLOPSTEG LECTURE SERIES

 

Klopsteg Lecture Series, 2011-12

All lectures are open to the public, thanks to the generosity of the Klopsteg fund, and (unless indicated otherwise below) are held in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall Room 201) on Mondays from 4pm-5:30pm.

Poster of SHC lectures.  Poster of lectures co-sponsored by SHC.

FALL 2011

October 3, 2011
CAROL HEIMER (Department of Sociology and American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University)
"Making the Clinic Safe for Science"

October 13, 2011
DONALD MacKENZIE (Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh)
“Drilling Through the Allegheny Mountains: The Social Structure of Liquidity in the Age of Automated Trading”
**Hosted by the Sociology Department with the co-sponsorship of SHC and the Media, Technology, and Society program
12:30-1:50 pm in Parkes Hall 222

November 14, 2011
MATTHEW WISNIOSKI (Department of Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech)
“Bridges to Creative Renewal: Engineers and the Design Revolution in 1960's America”

WINTER 2012

January 9, 2012
KAUSHIK SUNDER RAJAN (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
"Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Contemporary Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case"

January 20, 2012
DANIELA BLEICHMAR (Departments of Art History and History, USC)
“A New World of Knowledge: America in Prints, Prints in America”
**Part of a day-long colloquium at the Block Museum on “Knowledge| Replication,” hosted by the Art History Department with the co-sponsorship of SHC.  
10:30am  -  Block Museum, Pick-Laudati Auditorium

January 23, 2012
ANDREW LAKOFF (Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Communication, USC)
"Real Time Biopolitics: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Public Health"

January 26, 2012
ALONDRA NELSON (Department of Sociology, Columbia University)

“Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination”
**Hosted by the Sociology Department with the co-sponsorship of SHC

12:30-1:50pm  -  Parkes Hall 222


February 6, 2012
ELIZABETH LUNBECK (Department of History and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University)
"Writing the History of Narcissism"

NOTE LOCATION: Humanities Seminar Room, Kresge 2-360

February 20, 2012
DAVID RIBES (Department of Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University)
"Infrastructure and Historical Ontology: Changing Objects in a Long-term Study"
**Co-sponsored by the Media, Technology, and Society program

SPRING 2012

NOTE NEW DATE: April 16 , 2012
GEOFFREY BOWKER (School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine)
"Emerging Forms of Knowledge Expression"
**Co-sponsored by the Media, Technology, and Society program

Special event:
May 4-5, 2012
Facts, Artifacts, and the Politics of Consensus: A Midwest Conference for Science and Technology Studies
Keynote Speaker on May 4:
Naomi Oreskes, History Department, University of California, San Diego
”Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming”

Thursday, May 17, 2012

DOROTHY ROBERTS (Law & African American Studies, Northwestern University)
KEITH WAILOO (History; Woodrow Wilson School for Public & International Affairs, Princeton)
“The Use and Abuse of Race in Medicine and Health Studies”

**Hosted by the African American Studies Department with the co-sponsorship of SHC

Harris Hall L07   -  1881 Sheridan Road

 

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