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 2008

September 8, 2008
Janet Browne, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University.
“'The Advantage of a Private Income': Charles Darwin's Evolutionary Theory and the Natural Economy of Households.”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, Room 211)

September 22, 2008
Nancy Tomes, Professor of History, Stony Brook University.
“The Information RX: Buyers' Guides, Report Cards, and the Frustrating Quest for the 'Educated' Patient in Late 20th Century America.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

October 6, 2008
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania.
“Genetic Screening and Genocide: The Sickle Cell Screening Programs of the 1970s.”
(William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street, Room 208)

October 20, 2008
Richard C. Keller, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin.
“Geographies of Power, Legacies of Mistrust: Colonial Medicine in the Global present.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

November 3, 2008
Marcos Cueto, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.
“International Health and Malaria Eradication's Metaphors in Cold War Mexico, 1950s.”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, room 119A)

November 10, 2008
Mark Harrison, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine.
“'The Medical War' British Military Medicine in World War 1.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

December 1, 2008
Ken Alder, Professor of History, Northwestern University.
“The Forensic Self: Identity and Identification in France.”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, room 119A)

Spring Term 2009

January 26, 2009
Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine, McGill University.
“Arsenals of the Anxious: Medicine and Psychiatry in the Cold War.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

February 9, 2009
Bert W. Hansen, Baruch College.
“Looking at Medicine in Life Magazine Photography: Message and Medium in Popular Science.”
(HGS - room TBA)

February 23, 2009
Mary Terrall, Associate Professor, UCLA-Los Angeles.
“Following Insects Around: Tools and Techniques of Natural History in Réaumur's World.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

March 23, 2009
Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan.
“African Bodies and Nuclear Things: Scenes from the Transnational Production of Uranium.”
(HGS - room TBA)

April 6, 2009
Warwick H. Anderson, Senior Scientist, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin.
“Becoming Autoimmune: Self and Non-Self in Twentieth-Century Immunology.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Medical Historical Library)

April 20, 2009
Ronald L. Numbers, Professor, University of Wisconsin.
“Simplifying Complexity: Patterns in the History of Science and Religion.”
(HGS - room TBA)