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Sharon Kingsland
Department Chair

History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

phone 410-516-7501
danielle@jhu.edu

Calendar of Events

Fall Semester 2009 Colloquium Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, meetings will be on Thursdays at 3:00 P.M. at either:

(EB) Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library, East Baltimore Campus, or
(HW) 3505 North Charles St., Homewood campus, room 102.
 

[HW] September 17 MICHAEL H. SHANK, University of Wisconsin
Politics and Astrology in the Background of the Galileo Affair [No paper]

[EB] September 24 DAN O'CONNOR, Johns Hopkins University         
A Record of Historical Fact: Transsexuality, Retrospective Diagnosis, and the Ethics of History; or, Joking in the Archive with Carolyn Steedman

[HW] October 1 ALAN ROCKE, Case Western Reserve University
Imagining a Molecular World: Chemistry, Distant Interference, and the Scientific Imagination

[EB] October 8 BRUNO STRASSER, Yale University                 
Put a Tiger in your Test Tube: Organisms, Molecules, and the Comparative Perspective

[HW] October 15 TAKASHI NISHIYAMA, SUNY-Brockport
Kamikaze Technology and its Aftermath: Mobilizing Engineers for War and Peace in Japan, 1932-64 [No paper]

[EB] October 22 HUGH SHAPIRO, University of Nevada, Reno   
The Birth of Nervousness: Neurasthenia in Modern China

[HW] October 29 PATRICK J. BONER, Johns Hopkins University
Johannes Kepler’s Living Cosmology

[EB] November 5 ALEXANDRA MINNA STERN, University of Michigan  
Genetics, Disability, and Identity: The Medical and Social Dynamics of Labeling Disease and Difference, 1940-2000

[HW] November 12 SARA PRITCHARD, Cornell University
Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône [No paper]

[EB] December 3 DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI, Indiana University
Vivisection in 17th-Century Anatomy


NOTE: Seminars are conducted on the basis of pre-circulated papers.  For copies of papers or for more information please contact:
Ms. Coraleeze Thompson
coraleez@jhmi.edu for EB
Mrs. Danielle Stout
danielle@jhu.edu for HW



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