Program Seminar
Spring 2008
Monday, 3pm- 230 DICKINSON HALL
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| 2/4 | Introductory meeting | |
| 2/11 | Discussion of "Discovering Life" Workshop |
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| 2/18 | Howard Chiang Epistemic Modernity & the Emergence of Homosexuality in China |
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| 2/25 | John Heilbron, University of Oxford Pneumatics and Diplomatics: Analogies in the Histories of Physics and Historiography |
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| 3/3 | Vera Keller Artificial Suns from Drebbel to Balduin and the Discovery of Phosphorus |
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| 3/10 | Bob MacGregor Imagining an Aerospace Agency in the Atomic Age |
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Spring Break
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| 3/24 | Margaret Schotte Paper Navigational Instruments in the Renaissance |
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| 3/31 | Chin Jou Medical Interest in Obesity in Early c20 U.S. |
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| 4/7 | Dan Bouk A Science of Life Insurance |
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| 11/26 | Lorraine Daston, Max Planck IWG |
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| 12/3 | Yulia Frumer Mechanical Times: Clock Culture in Edo Japan |
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| 12/10 | Catherine Abou-Nemeh Hartsoeker's Move from Cartesian to Vitalist Understandings of Matter |
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The Program Seminar serves to foster scholarly community among the faculty, students, and visiting fellows of the Program: we meet weekly to think and talk together, and this is a considerable pleasure (not to mention intellectually invigorating). Topics of the gathering vary. Often we discuss a pre-circulated work in progress, but other conversations are welcome • recent literature, events and trends in the profession, issues of common concern in the Program. The goal is to bridge the divisions and to counteract the centrifugal forces that tend to affect small programs with broad scope.