Portrait of Copernicus
Department of the History of Science
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

All Department Events for Spring 2007



January 26 (Friday) at Noon

Christina Matta and Richard Staley, UW-Madison
"A Graduate Student's Guide to Publishing."
February 2 (Friday) at Noon

Kellen Backer, UW-Madison
"World War II and the Creation of American Food."
February 8 (Thursday) at 3:45 pm

Colloquium: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
"Opportunities and Opportunism: How Cold War Military Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists Who Would Resolve the Question of Global Warming."
Location: 8417 Social Science
February 9 (Friday) at Noon

Leah DeVun, UW-Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
"Cures and Creations: Surgery and Intersex Bodies in the Middle Ages."
February 16 (Friday) at Noon

Warwick Anderson, UW-Madison
"Racial Laboratories and Reproductive Frontiers: The Twentieth-Century Sciences of Race-Mixing in the Pacific."
February 19 (Monday) at 3:45 pm

Colloquium: Susan Reverby, Wellesley College
"Testifying on Tuskegee: Telling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Stories."
Location: 6240 Social Science
February 23 (Friday) at Noon

Bridget Collins, UW-Madison
"The Sleeping Porch: From the Sanatorium to Better Homes and Gardens."
February 28 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm

Colloquium: Matthew Lavine, UW-Madison
"That Healthy Glow: Patient Perspectives on Early Medical Applications of Radium and X-rays."
Location: 6240 Social Science
March 2 (Friday) at Noon

Rick Keyser, UW-Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
"Sustainable Woodland Management in Medieval France."
March 9 (Friday) at Noon

Jane Camerini, UW-Madison
"Tent Colony Chronicle."
March 16 (Friday) at Noon

Amrys Williams, Christina Matta, Mitch Aso, UW-Madison
"Cultures and Cultivation."
March 21 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm

Colloquium: Blair Nelson, UW-Madison
"Religious Writers, Scientific Reputations, and the Race Debate: Religious Assessments of American Polygenists, 1849-1874."
Location: 6240 Social Science
March 23 (Friday) at Noon

Abby Kinchy, PhD candidate, Sociology, UW-Madison
"African Americans in the Atomic Age: Perspectives on the Bomb, 1945-1955."
March 30 (Friday) at Noon

Lynn Nyhart, UW-Madison
"What Could Anyone Possibly Say About Darwin That's New."
April 11 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm

Colloquium: Karen Walloch, UW-Madison
"'A Trying Ordeal at Best': Anxiety About Vaccination During the 1901-1902 Smallpox Epidemic."
Location: 6240 Social Science
May 2 (Wednesday) at 3:45 pm

Colloquium: Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University
"Why Sex is Gender (Again)."
Location: 6240 Social Science
May 4 (Friday) at Noon

Bridget Collins, Mitch Aso, Kellen Backer, UW-Madison
"Minors, Joint Majors, and Courses Taken Outside the Department."
May 11 (Friday) at Noon

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