TALKS FOR 2002-03
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.
The location for the talks, unless otherwise indicated,
is the seminar room in the Sociology department: 1808 Chicago Avenue,
1st floor.
October 25
Trevor Pinch, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell
University
“In the Moog: The Early History of the Electronic Music Synthesizer”
November
15
John Krige, Dept. of History of Science and Technology, Georgia
Tech
“The Politics of Philanthropy: The Rockerfeller Foundation’s
Support for French Science in the early Cold War”
November
22
Roger Hart, Dept. of History, University of Texas-Austin
“The Disunity of Language, Science, and Culture”
December
6
James Schwoch, CICS and Dept. of Communication, Northwestern
University
“’We should play the science fiction aspect with restraint’:
Cold War Psychological Warfare, Global Public Opinion, and American
Science Policy”
January
17
Charis Thompson, Department of History of Science, Harvard University
"The Biotech Mode of (Re)Production"
January
29
John Tresch, Department of History, Northwestern University
“The Dandy and the Demiurge: Individual, Technology, and Cosmos
in Nineteenth Century France”
noon, Harris Hall, room 108
February
14
Shobita Parthasarathy, Dept. of Sociology, Northwestern University
"A Global Genome? Building Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
in the US and Britain"
February
28
Sandy Sufian, Dept. of Medical Humanities, University of Illinois-Chicago
"Malaria, Arab/Jewish relations and the Transformation of Palestine"
March
7
Peter Dear, Departments of History and Science and Technology
Studies, Cornell University
"Natural Philosophy and the Ideology of Modern Science"
April
10
“Freud and the scientists: on the early reception of psychoanalysis
in England in the 1920s,” John Forrester, Department of History
and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
April
18
Peter Dear, Departments of History and Science and Technology
Studies, Cornell University
"Natural Philosophy and the Ideology of Modern Science"
*Harris 108
April
25
Martin Kenney, Department of Human and Community Development,
University of California, San Diego
"A Tale of Two Universities: Entrepreneurship in the Departments
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and
Stanford"
May
9
Margaret Lock, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
“Savouring complexity and Resisting Hype: Alzheimer’s
Disease, Molecular and Population Genetics”
May
19
Michael Adas, Professor of History, Rutgers University
“From Triumphalism to Contested Hegemony: World War II, the
Cold War Standoff, and the Poverty of the Superpowers’ High
Tech Development Alternatives for the Post-Colonial World”
At 12:00 Noon
*Harris 108
May
23
Sharon Traweek, Department of History, University of California-Los
Angeles
June
6
Carla Bittel, Department of History, Claremont-McKenna College |
