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. When they are held in the Fulton Room in Sterling Hall of Medicine, there will be tea at 4:00.
Fall Term 2011
September 12, 2011
Rebecca Messbarger, Associate Professor of Italian, Washington University at St. Louis,Department of Romance Languages & Literatures.
“More than Art: Anna Morandi Manzolin’s Anatomical Bodies in Wax”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street)
September 26, 2011
Jonathan Sadowsky, Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Theodore J. Castele Associate Professor of Medical History & Chair, Department of History
“Electroconvulsive Therapy and the History of Therapeutics”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.)
October 3, 2011
John Lesch, Professor Emeritus, Berkeley; Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Rutgers University
“Chemotherapy by Design”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street)
October 17, 2011
Christopher Crenner MD, PhD; University of Kansas Medical Center, History and Philosophy of Medicine Department, Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine
"Julian Herman Lewis and the Racial Oranization of Biomedical Norms”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Historical Library)
November 7, 2011
Jennifer Alexander, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering.
"Religion, Technology, and Critique: Jacques Ellul and the Technology and Social Justice Movement in Post-war Europe"
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street)
November 28, 2011
Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in History of Medicine; Editor, Journal of the History of Medicine, Department of History, Duke University
"'Of Wars and War:' The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War "
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.)
Spring Term 2012
January 30, 2012
Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego; Adjunct Professor of Geosciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
"The Crucial Experiment that Wasn't: Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate, 1957-2000"
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street)
February 6, 2012 - HOLMES ANNUAL LECTURE
Ruth Rogaski, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Program, Vanderbilt University, Department of History
“Dragons, Ginseng, and Germs: Creating Knowledge About Nature on a Chinese Frontier, 1600 to the Present”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Historical Library)
February 20, 2012
Edmund P. Russell, Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia
"Neurohistory: A New Field for Historians"
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street)
March 19, 2012
Susan Burch, Middlebury College, Associate Professor of American Studies; Director, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
"Re-Membering: Removals, Institutions, and Community Lives in American History"
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.)
April 2, 2012
Scott Podolsky, MD, Harvard University, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; Assistant professor in the Department of Social Medicine and a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"The Politicization of Antibiotic Resistance"
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.)
April 16, 2012
"Social Networks and Personal Health Information: The Challenges for Privacy"
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street)
