Events

All OHST events listed here are free and open to the public. No registration is required.To receive regular notices of our events, please contact ohst@berkeley.edu.


Berkeley-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Winter-Spring 2008

Location: 140 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, at 4 PM
Unless otherwise announced

Monday, January 28, 2008
Genes, Genentech, and the Business of Biotechnology
Sally Smith Hughes
The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Monday, February 4, 2008
Psychopharmacology in the Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Andrea Tone
McGill University
Note time & location: 12 PM, S-180, Medical Sciences Building, UCSF Parnassus Campus

Monday, February 11, 2008
What's the Place of the Physical Environmental Sciences in the History of Recent Science?
Ron Doel
Oregon State University

Monday, March 10, 2008
Performing Expertise: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Female Physiology in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Carla Bittel
Loyola Marymount University

Monday, March 17, 2008
Globalizing Conservation in the Twentieth Century: Oceans, Whales, and the "Blue Planet"
D. Graham Burnett
Princeton University
Co-Sponsored with the Science, Technology, and Society Center.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Anatomy and the Origins of the Paris Academy of Sciences
Anita Guerrini
University of California, Santa Barbara

Monday, April 14, 2008
We Have Never Been Whiggish (About Phlogiston)
Hasok Chang
University College London

Monday, April 28, 2008
Flying Saucers from Outer Space: European Astrofuturism in the Twentieth Century
Alexander C.T. Geppert
Harvard University and Freie Universität Berlin
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of European Studies.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Portraying the "Intimate Scientist" in 20th Century America: The Pushback in Popular Culture against Scientific Arrogance
Katherine Pandora
University of Oklahoma


Special Lectures

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Trade in Medical Instruments and Colonialist Policies between Mexico and Europe in the 19th Century
Laura Cházaro
Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico City


Other Special Events


Past OHST Events


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