Department of History of Science and Technology

Richard Adjei, second year of JHU, will present "Beyond Medicine and Healing: Cultural Revival, Politics, and Development of the Psychic and Traditional Healing Association in Northern Ghana". Pre-circulated paper.

Hannah Haegeland, second year JHU, will present "Knowledge, Networks, and Global Power: Pakistan's Quest to Beat the Nuclear Keep-Away Game". Pre-circulated paper.

Heidi Hausse and Chad Rose of Auburn will present “3D-Printed Prostheses and Early Modern Iron Hands: A Method to Investigate the Lived Experiences of Amputees in the Pre-Modern World” There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Sonja Schmid of Virginia Tech will present "Tritium in Transition: Material Ambivalence in the US Nuclear Infrastructure" There will be a pre-circulated paper

Carolyn Roberts of Yale will present “Debating the Feeling Capacity of African People: Aetiological Politics, Mental Illness, and Affective Neuroscience in British Slave-Trade Abolition.” There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Emily Margolis of The Smithsonian will present "Launching Space Camp: Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Workers through Play"

Sarah Runcie of Muhlenberg will present "Disease Eradication and Colonial Violence in Cameroon, 1955-1959." There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Michel Janssen of the University of Minnesota will present "Building the Cathedral
of Quantum Mechanics". This is a joint colloquium with the Philosophy Department.

Kyoungjin Bae of University of North Carolina will present "To the Sea, To the Mountain: Cantonese Woodwork in the Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth Century". This is a joint colloquium with East Asian Studies.

Jeremy Greene of JHU will present “The Needle and the Damage Done: Ecologies of Syringe Use and Abuse”. There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Jennifer Rampling of Princeton will present "Trick or Treatise?: Alchemical Magic in Early Modern England".