Medical History and Bioethics
Colloquia: 2008-2009
Colloquia are usually held at 4:00 p.m. in 984 Memorial Library (Special Collections) unless otherwise noted. Cookies and coffee 3:45 p.m.
Monday September 15
Harriet Ritvo, MIT
"The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the Victorian Environment"
4:00 pm in Memorial Union TITU
Sponsored by the Center for Culture, History, and Environment,Co-sponsored by the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and the Department of History of Science
September 23
Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan
"African Bodies and Nuclear Things: Scenes from the Transnational Production of Uranium"
Cosponsored by African Studies Program, Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, Center for European Studies, Department of Engineering Physics, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the WAGE collaborative project “Governing New Conflicts in Global Energy Futures”
October 21
Janet Browne, Harvard University
"I Wonder What a Chimpanzee Would Say to This?": Commemorating Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species
February 17
Bernard Lightman, York University
"The Culture of Evolutionary Naturalism and its Critics."
March 3
Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan
"The Entangled History of Eugenics, Medical Genetics and Genetic Counseling."
Snow Miller Lecture
March 24
Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University
"Earthquakes, Cherokees, and the early-19th-century Mississippi Valley."
March 31
Jane Maienschein
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
"Regenerative Medicine and Society: Translation, Transplantation, and Stem Cells in Historical Context"
Cosponsored by the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies
Chauncey Leake Lecture
*** In 5231 Social Sciences***April 24
Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/University of Chicago
"The Passions of the Unnatural."
The Pyle Center, 7:30 PM.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (Humanities without Boundaries series).
May 5
Elizabeth Williams, Oklahoma State University
"'Frenchness' and Madness: National Identity and Psychopathology in Enlightenment France"
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