Holmes Workshop Series

The Holmes Workshop Series aims to encourage scholarly discussions of ongoing research among graduate students and faculty members at Yale working on projects related to the history of science and medicine, while fostering a sense of community spirit and collegiality among members of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. It is named after Dr. Frederic L. Holmes, former chairman of the Program.

Holmes workshops run from 4:30-6:00 on certain Mondays throughout the fall and spring semesters (see schedule). Presenters are encouraged to pre-circulate their papers or chapters when possible.

Academic Year 2011-2012 Holmes Workshop Series

FALL, 2011

September 19, 2011
Joy Rankin:  "Personal Computing before Personal Computers: Time-Sharing, Regional Networks, and the Advent of Interactive, Individualized Computing"
Commentator:  Gerardo Con Diaz 

October 10, 2011
Jed Gross:  "Grafting the Family Tree: The Law of Human Remains, 1877-1929"
Commentator:  Heidi Knoblauch 

October 24, 2011
Mical Raz:  "The Deprivation Riots: Deprivation Theory, Environmental Psychology and the Urban Race Riots"
Commentator:  Courtney Thompson 

November 14, 2011
Gerardo Con Diaz:  "Divinity and Biomedicine: Intercessory rayer and the Quantification of Provendial Healing"
Commentator:  Matthew Gunterman 

December 5, 2011
Robin Scheffler:  "Managing Viruses and the Public: The Special Leukemia Virus Program, 1948-1964"
Commentator  Deborah Doroshow

SPRING, 2012

January 30, 2012
William Rankin: "The Electrification of Territory: Radionavigation and the Civilianization of Blind Bombing after World War II"
Commentator:  Rachel Rothschild 

February 13, 2012
Sakena Abedin:  "Studying the 'Farm Cardiac': Patient Compliance and the Purdue Farm Cardiac Project, 1950-1970"
Commentator:  Mical Raz 

February 27 2012
Jenna Healey:  "Rejecting Reproduction: The National Organization for Non-Parents and the 'Childfree' Movement in 1970s America"
Commentator:  Kelly O'Donnell 

March 26, 2012
Courtney Thompson: "Haussmannizing the Asylum: Psychiatric Space and Practice in Second Empire Paris, 1852-1870" 
Commentator:  Jenna Healey 

April 9, 2012
Heidi Knoblauch:  "Physicists, Doctors, and Optical Toys"
Commentator:  Kathryn Irving

April 23, 2012
Kathryn Irving: "Experimental Physiology, Social Reform, and the Development of Schools for the Feeble-Minded in the mid-19th century US"
Commentator:  Robin Scheffler