Colloquia
The Program sponsors a regular biweekly Colloquium during the fall and spring terms. Its aim is to enlarge the engagement of faculty and, especially, students with the diverse approaches and cutting-edge work of both junior and senior scholars from the United States and abroad in the history of science and medicine. The colloquium is well attended and is the site of vigorous discussion following the talks.
All colloquia, workshops and lectures are scheduled for 4:30 pm unless stated otherwise. When they are held in the Fulton Room in Sterling Hall of Medicine, there will be tea at 4:00.
Fall Term 2012
September 24, 2012
Ed Larson
320 York Street, HGS 211
“Scott, Amundsen and Science: The Role of Science in the Race to the South Pole”
October 1, 2012
Wendy Fu
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
333 Cedar Street, Fulton L215
"The Soy Family and Madam Cow: Nutritional Sovereignty in Republican China."
October 5, 2012
Elizabeth Watkins (McGOVERN LECTURE)
Professor of the History of Health Sciences and Graduate Dean at UCSF
333 Cedar Street, Historical Library
"Stress and the American Vernacular: Constructing Conceptions of Disease Causality,"
October 15, 2012
Bernie Lightman
Professor of Humanities, York University
“Defining British Science at the Metaphysical Society: Contesting Cultural Authority in the 1870s”
320 York Street, HGS 211
October 29, 2012
Carin Berkowitz
Associate Director of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, CHF.
“The Surgeon’s Seeing Hand: Teaching Anatomy to the Senses in Britain, 1750-1830”
333 Cedar Street, Fulton L215
November 12, 2012
Matt Klingle, environment and health (w/Paul Sabin)
320 York Street, HGS 211
“Sweet Blood: Natives, Environment, and the Changing Nature of Diabetes Mellitus Epidemiology”
November 26, 2012
Peter Swenson, Yale University
Charlotte Marion Saden Professor, Political Science
333 Cedar Street, Fulton L215
“License or Liberty: Public Health and the Revival of Medical Licensure in the 1870s”
Spring Term 2013
January 28, 2013
Pamela Smith (HOLMES LECTURE)
Professor of History at Columbia University
333 Cedar Street, Historical Library
“In the Workshop of History: Reconstructing Technical and Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe”
February 11, 2013
David Rosner, (McGOVERN LECTURE)
333 Cedar Street, Historical Library
"Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children"
February 25, 2013
Jon Harkness
320 York Street, HGS 211
April 1, 2013
Lara Freidenfelds
333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
April 8, 2013
Feingold/Buchwald
320 York Street, HGS 211
April 22, 2013
Matthew Neufeld
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan
333 Cedar Street, Fulton L215
“Nursing Enterprises, Naval Medicine and the State in late seventeenth-century England”
For further information: www.yale.edu/hshm/ , or (203) 432-1365
