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TALKS FOR 2006-07
The
Klopsteg seminar series in
SCIENCE IN HUMAN CULTURE
The SHC seminar series is funded by a generous grant from the Klopsteg
Fund to encourage scholarship and teaching in the domain of the
two cultures. The seminar generally meets on Fridays at noon to
hear speakers discuss science, medicine, and technology in their
social, philosophical, or historical context. We send out regular
bulletins to remind our audience of up-coming talks. If you wish
to be added to our electronic mailing list, please contact Barbara
Phelan.
The location for the talks, unless otherwise indicated, is the
Hagstrum Room, 201 University Hall, Evanston Campus. All talks begin
at 12:00 noon.
Fall 2006
October 6
Laurence Monnais
Université de Montreal, Canada
"The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Accessibility to Healthcare, Consumption of Medicines, and Medical Pluralism in French Vietnam, 1905-1945"
October 19
*Francisco Vidal
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
"Brainhood: Historical roots and contemporary presence of the cerebral subject"
Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, 5:00 PM
October 20
Andrea Rusnock
Department of History, University of Rhode Island
"When Disease Doesn't Spread: Cowpox, Smallpox and Vaccination, 1796-1810"
October 20
*Bruno Latour
Sciences Po, Paris
"Who is a Naturalist? Philippe Descola's Par-dela nature et culture"
Crown Center, Hardin Hall, 5:00 PM
October 27
Qiong Zhang
Department of History, Southern Illinois University
"Whatever Happened at the Contact Zone? Matteo Ricci's World Maps and their Chinese reception"
November 10
Laura Stark
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
"Do IRBs Make Consistent Decisions? The Role of Local Precedents in Science Decision-Making"
November 17
Sokhieng Au
Department of History, Northwestern University
"The King with Hansen's Disease: Tales of the Leper in Colonial Indochina"
Winter 2007
January 12
Gary Fine
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
“Authors of the Storm: Operational Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction”
February 16
*Stefan Sperling
Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard University
2:00PM, Hagstrum Room, 201 University Hall
February 23
*Sydney Halpern
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois – Chicago
“Professional Autonomy and the Regulatory State: Social and Behavioral Scientists Confront Human Subjects Regulations”
12:00PM, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, 2010 Sheridan Road
March 2
Paula DeVos
Department of History, San Diego State University
Spring 2007
April 13
Abigail Lusti
Department of History, University of Texas
"Calculated Virtues, or, How Altruism Became Something Biologists Have to Explain"
May 4
Stefan Timmermans
Department of Sociology, UCLA
"The 51% Rule of Suicide: How Medical Examiners Decide that a Death was intentionally Self-Inflicted"
May 18
Pablo Boczkowski
Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
"Information Transparency: Materiality and Mimicry in the Journalistic Field and Beyond"
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