Melody Xu, 2nd year JHU, will present, "Attention is in the Eye of the Beholder: Norman Mackworth and the Development of Eye Tracking Technology in the 20th Century." There will be a pre-circulated paper.
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.
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 […]
Myles Jackson of Princeton IAS will present, "Broadcasting Fidelity: German Radio and the Rise of Early Electronic Music".
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.
John Kanbayashi of UPenn will present, "Hydropower, Electrification, and Colonial Conquest in Japanese Taiwan". 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.
Jennifer Rampling of Princeton will present "Trick or Treatise?: Alchemical Magic in Early Modern England".
Emily Margolis of The Smithsonian will present "Launching Space Camp: Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Workers through Play"
Sonja Schmid of Virginia Tech will present "Tritium in Transition: Material Ambivalence in the US Nuclear Infrastructure" There will be a 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.
Elliot Mertz, second year JHU, will present "Georg Stahl's Metaphysics of Matter and Motion: Natural Minima, N-Body Interaction, and Experimental Application from 1684-1720". Pre-circulated paper