TALKS FOR 2003-04
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 10
Simon Werrett, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle
"Fireworks and Natural Philosophy."
October 24
Adrian Johns, Department of History, University of Chicago
"Death of a pirate: economic liberalism, offshore radio, and popular culture in '60s Britain."
November 7
Guy Ortolano, Department of History, Northwestern University.
"Kick the Two Cultures Habit! A 5-Step Program."
November 21
Cancelled for History of Science Society Annual Meeting
December 5
“Interior temptation”: Early modern imagination
On December 5th and 6th, the SHC program is supporting a special international workshop co-organized by Northwestern’s Program in the Study of the Imagination and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin.This workshop will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss various formulations and practices of the imagination, its powers, its dangers and its benefits in early modern Europe, where theories of its operations explained mental function and malfunction, dreams, artistry, the effects of music, witchcraft, various maladies, and religious contemplation.
Organized by Claudia Swan, Art History, Northwestern University, and Fernando Vidal, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin.
January 16th
Greg Mitman, Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Title: "Campaigning for Health: Visual Languages of Disease and Race in America, 1963-1965."
January 30th
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor and Chair, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Can A Eugenic Program be Morally Right and Politically Correct? Mandated Genetic Screening on the Island of Cyprus."
February 12th
Pietro Corsi, University of Paris
Title: "After the Revolution: The Politics of Words, 1795-1802."
February 20th
Tom Gieryn, Rudy Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of History & Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
Title: "City as Truth-Spot: Laboratory and Field-sites in Urban Studies."
February 27th
Tom Gunning, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Title: "Phantasmagoria: Making Illusions Between Enlightenment and Cinema."
March 12th
Helene Mialet, Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Performing Thought Experiments."
April
2nd
Mitchell Ash, Department of History, University of Vienna
Title: "Scientific Changes in Times of Political Upheaval:
Germany 1933, 1945, 1990."
April
16th
Norton Wise, Department of History, University of California--Los
Angeles
Title: TBA
April
30th
Adele Clarke, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Department
of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California--San
Francisco
Title: "From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization:
American (Bio)medical Formations c1890-2000."
May
14th
Steven Epstein, Department of Sociology and Science Studies Program,
University of California, San Diego
Title: "One Size Does Not Fit All': Standardization, Identity
Politics, and the Management of Difference in U.S. Biomedical Research."
May
28th
Mark Brown, Department of Government, California State University--Sacramento
Title: "Citizen Panels and the Co-Production of Scientific
and Political Representation."
Events
will take place in Harris Hall and at the Block Museum. Information
available at: http://www.psi.northwestern.edu/
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