Department of History of Science and Technology

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 […]

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".

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.