TALKS FOR 2001-02
The
Klopsteg seminar series in
SCIENCE IN HUMAN CULTURE
The SHC seminar series is funded in 2001-04 by a generous grant from
the Klopsteg Fund to encourage scholarship and teaching in the domain
of the two cultures. The seminar generally meets on Fridays at noon
to hear speakers discuss science, medicine, and technology in their
social, philosophical, or historical context. We send out regular
bulletins to remind our audience of up-coming talks. If you wish to
be added to our electronic mailing list, please contact Phyllis Siegel.
Friday, October 12
Robert C. Olby
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
"Going Molecular: The Case of the Chemistry of Memory"
12:00 Noon in room 272 Kresge Hall, Evanston Campus
Thursday, October 18
Katharine Park
Departments of History of Science and Women's Studies, Harvard University
"When Soul Speaks to Body: The Language of Imagination in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe"
5:00 PM at the Pick-Laudati Auditorium, Block Museum of Art
1967 South Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
(Co-sponsored with the Program in the Study of Imagination)
Monday, November 12
Leonard Shlain
Chairman of Laparoscopic Surgery, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF
"The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image"
12:00 Noon in room 272 Kresge Hall, Evanston Campus
Friday, November 16
Alison Winter
Department of History and Program in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago
"Chemistry of truth: The Medical Extraction of Memory, 1910-1960"
12:00 Noon in room 272 Kresge Hall, Evanston Campus
Thursday, December 6
Richard Doyle
Departments of Rhetoric and Science Studies, Penn State University
"LSDNA: Imaging Hallucinogens and the Emergence of Biotechnology in America"
5:00 PM at the Pick-Laudati Auditorium, Block Museum of Art
1967 South Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
(Co-sponsored with the Program in the Study of Imagination)
Friday, January 18
Paul N. Edwards
School of Information, University of Michigan
"Thinking Globally: Computers, Networks, and the Construction of 'Global' Spaces"
Friday, January 25
Sander Gliboff
Department of History and Program in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern University
"Charles Darwin, H. G. Bronn and the Origin of the German Origin: Problems of Translation and Intercultural Communication"
Friday, February 1
James Strick
Program in History of Science, Princeton University
"The Early Days of Exobiology: NASA funding and the Competing Research Programs of Stanley Miller and Sidney Fox"
Friday, March 1
John Carson
Department of History, University of Michigan
"Debating Democracy in an Age of IQ: Intelligence and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century America"
Friday, April 12
Werner Callebaut
Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria
"The Future of the Life Sciences From the Perspective of Theoretical
Biology"
12:00 Noon in room 302 Kresge Hall, Evanston
Friday, April 19
Hunter Crowther-Heyck
Department of History of Science, University of Oklahoma
"Laboratories of the Mind: Herbert Simon and the Rise of Simulation
in Postwar Science"
12:00 Noon in room 302 Kresge Hall, Evanston
Friday, April 26
Kathleen Crowther-Heyck
Department of History, Swarthmore College
"Wonderful Secrets of Nature: Natural Knowledge and Religious
Piety in Reformation Germany"
12:00 Noon in room 302 Kresge Hall, Evanston
Friday,May 3
Hugh Gusterson
Departments of Anthropology and Science Studies, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
"Cultures of Insecurity Among Nuclear Weapons Scientists"
12:00 Noon in room 302 Kresge Hall, Evanston
Friday, May 10
Joan Fujimura
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title to be announced
12:00 Noon in room 302 Kresge Hall, Evanston
Friday,
May 17
Elisa Becker
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
"Making
the Medical Expert: Forensic Physicians and the Shaping of Criminal
Procedure in 19th Century"
12:00 Noon in room 302 Kresge Hall, Evanston |
