Previous Colloquium
Colloquium Series, Spring 2020
Colloquium Series, Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sept. 6, 2019 | Eric Carter | The Health of the People: A New History of Latin American Social Medicine |
| Sept. 20, 2019 | Deborah Coen | Reimagining the History of Climate Science |
| Sept. 27, 2019 | Esyllt Jones |
New Deal Medicine & the Birth of Socialized Health Care in Canada: Fred Mott in Saskatchewan, 1946-1951 |
| Oct. 11, 2019 | Anna Graber |
Underground Evangelizing: Theodicy and Orthodoxy in Lomonosov's Theory of Earth |
| Oct. 25, 2019 | Mary Terrall |
Indigo Trials and Tribulations: Michel Adanson's African Laboratory |
| Nov. 8, 2019 | Amit Hagar |
How to Train a Mouse: Methodological Challenges to Pre-Clinical Exercise Ontology |
| Nov. 15, 2019 | Nicole Nelson |
The Methodologists - Following the Scientists who make Tools, not Facts |
| Nov. 22, 2019 | Brandy Shillace |
A new way of seeing: Medical Humanities and the moral imperative of social justice |
Colloquium Series, 2018-2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 7, 2018 | Andrew Zangwill | Four Facts Everyone Ought to Know about Science |
| Sept. 14, 2018 | Evan Ragland | The Medical Origins of Experimental Science? Professors, Students, and the Cultivation of Experiment at Universities in Padua and Leiden |
| Sept. 21, 2018 | Sarah Robins | The Neurophilosophy of Memory: Reconciling Stable Engrams and Neural Dynamics |
| Sept. 28, 2019 | Deirdre Cooper Owens | Exploring Hapticity, Slavery, and the Emergence of American Gynecology |
| Oct. 5, 2018 | Erik Peterson | Epigenetics is 76 years old, so why are we just now hearing about it? |
| Oct. 12, 2018 | Susan Jones | The Homelands of the Plague: Soviet Disease Ecology in Central Asia, 1920s-1950s |
| Oct. 19, 2018 | Jaipreet Virdi | Mechanical Quackery: Electrical Cures for Deafness in the United States, 1880-1930 |
| Oct. 26, 2018 | Benjamin Goldberg | Margaret Cavendish's Medical Recipes: Medicine, Experience, and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England |
| Nov. 9, 2018 | Andrew Hogan | Reform or Exclude? Debating Medicine's Role in Disability and Mental Health |
| Nov. 16, 2018 | Daniel Rood | El Principio Sacarino: Organic Chemistry Meets Racial Capitalism in the Cuban Sugar-Mill |
| Nov. 30, 2018 | Elisabeth Lloyd | The Intersection of Social Values and Methods in Attributing Climate Change to Extreme Events: A Controversy |
| Dec. 7, 2018 | Roger Stuewer | From the Old to the New World of Nuclear Physics, 1919-1939 |
| Jan. 25, 2019 | Lucy Fortson | Optimizing the Human-Machine Partnership with Zooniverse |
| Feb. 8, 2019 | Miriam Gross | Re-Evaluating SARS: Health Campaigns as a lens into Chinese Science, Administration and State Control |
| Feb. 15, 2019 | Gualtiero Piccinini | Mechanisms, Multiple Realizability and Medium Independence |
| Feb. 22, 2019 | Michael Gordin | Einstein in Bohemia: Science and Prague before and after the Habsburgs |
| Mar. 1, 2019 | Nukhet Varlik | Five-Hundred Years of Plague in Ottomany History: Rethinking the Second Pandemic |
| Mar. 8, 2019 | Edward Jones-Imhotep | Theaters of Machines: Breakage, Social Order, and the Lost Histories of the Technological Self |
| Mar. 29, 2019 | Lynn Nyhart | The Politics of Popular Physiology in Germany in the 1840s and 50s |
| Apr. 5, 2019 | Oystein Linnebo and Gabriel Uzquiano | Author Meets Reader: Varieties of Continua |
| Apr. 12, 2019 | Jenna Tonn | Being "One of the Boys:" Manliness and Experimental Zoology in Boston |
| Apr. 19, 2019 | Olivia Weisser | Republic of Venus: Shopping for Veneral Cures in Early Modern London |
| Apr. 26, 2019 | Angela Potochnik | Idealization and Many Aims |
| May 3, 2019 | Rachel Mason Dentinger | Pests, Parasites, Partners & Poisons: The Metaphors and Molecules that Frame Interspecies Interactions |
Colloquium Series, 2017-2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 8, 2017 | Jennifer Alexander | Technology, Religion and Postwar Debates about the Order of Creation: How the History of Science and Religion Led to Error in Analyzing Technology and Religion |
| Sept. 14, 2017 | David Herzberg | He will be a Better Citizen as a Legitimate Addict: The Forgotten History of Harm Reduction in America's First Opioid Epidemic |
| Sept. 22, 2017 | Alison Gopnik | When Children are Better Learners than Adults: Theory Formation, Causal Models, and the Evolution of Learning |
| Sept. 29, 2017 | Amy Bix | Inviting Girls into the Lab: The Rise of Diversity Advocacy in STEM, 1950-Present |
| Oct. 6, 2017 | David Kaiser | Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravity in Postwar American Physics |
| Oct. 13, 2017 | Rebecca Kukla | Structural Bias and the Commercialization of Medicine |
| Oct. 20, 2017 | Victor Boantza | Fluidity, Elasticity and Activity: Conceptualizing Air from Boyle to the Early Newtonians |
| Oct. 27, 2017 | C. Kenneth Waters | An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation |
| Nov. 3, 2017 | Darin Hayton | Astrology from University Lecture to Print Culture |
| Nov. 10, 2017 | Rob DiSalle | Absolute Space, Relation Motion and the Method of Newtonian Physics |
| Nov. 17, 2017 | Molly Kao | Unification and Heuristic Strategies in the Development of Quantum Theory |
| Dec. 1, 2017 | Nora Berenstain | Active Ignorance and the Rhetoric of Biological Race Realism |
| Dec. 8, 2017 | Andy Bruno | Eurasianism in Soviet Science: The Environmental Views of Aleksandr Fersman |
| Jan. 19, 2018 | Harvey Brown | How Einstein Came to Use the Action-Reaction Principle in Promoting his Theory of Gravity |
| Jan. 26, 2018 | Nancy Tomes | Recovery as Concept, Model and Movement in the Mental Health Field: The Challenge of Writing a 'History of the Present' |
| Feb. 2, 2018 | Marc Swackhamer | Hypernatural: Architecture's New Relationship with Nature |
| Feb. 9, 2018 | Jacqueline Feke |
Ptolemy's Ethics |
| Feb. 16, 2018 | Cynthia Connolly | A Big Business Built for Little Customers: Children and the Flavored Aspirin Market in the United States, 1948-1973 |
| Feb. 23, 2018 | Nahyan Fancy | Did Humoral Theory Undergo any Changes in Post-Avicennan Medicine? Examples from the Commentaries of Ibn al-Nafis (1288) and his Successors in Western Eurasia |
| Mar. 2, 2018 | Alisa Bokulich | Using Models to Correct Data: Paleodiversity and the Fossil Record |
| Mar. 23, 2018 | Rebecca Kluchin | Court-Ordered Caesarean Sections in 1980s America |
| Mar. 30, 2018 | Susan Rensing | A Coldly Scientific Venture: Unwed Mothers and the Eugenic Baby Panic |
| Apr. 6, 2018 | Suart Glennan | Compositional Minimalism |
| Apr. 13, 2018 | Lawrence Principe | Wilhelm Holmberg's Laboratories and Instruments: Doing Chymistry in Early Modern France |
| Apr. 20, 2018 | Robert Humphreys | Margaret Burbidge, and the Annie Jump Cannon Award or How I Met Vera Rubin - a Personal and Scientific Recollection |
| Apr. 27, 2018 | Richard Samuels | How to Acquire Number Concepts: A New Puzzle (With Stewart Shapiro and Eric Snyder) |
For information about our colloquium series from more distant years, please contact hstm@umn.edu.