Department of History of Science and Technology

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

Daniel HoSang of Yale will present “The Interstices of Eugenics”. There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Thomas Zeller of University of Maryland will present "Engineering a Reputation: Fritz Todt and the Technopolitics of Memory in the Federal Republic of Germany". There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Bharat Venkat of UCLA will present, "Swelter: A History of our Bodies in a Warming World". There will be a pre-circulated paper.

John Kanbayashi of UPenn will present, "Hydropower, Electrification, and Colonial Conquest in Japanese Taiwan". There will be a pre-circulated paper.

A book launch and discussion of "Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Globa" with author Julia Cummiskey of Johns Hopkins University.

Kyoryen Hwang of JHU will present, "Life on Artificial Media: Bacterial Variation and Typhoid Vaccine Improvement in Interwar Britain and Japan". There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Myles Jackson of Princeton IAS will present, "Broadcasting Fidelity: German Radio and the Rise of Early Electronic Music".

Clare Griffin will present, "The Soldier’s Body Keeps the Score: Medical Aftermaths of Early Modern Battles"

Please join Barbara Hof, visiting scholar in the History of Science and Technology Department for a brown bag lunch co-organized with STS+MH Hub. Abstract: I would like to use the STS+MH Hub to discuss preliminary findings from my ongoing research. This research focuses on the voluntary, interdisciplinary, and self-organized efforts of European researchers during the Vietnam […]

Alison McManus of JHU will present, "Compounds of Considerable Interest: The Allied Search for Nerve Agents in World War II". There will be a pre-circulated paper.