CONFERENCES
March 23-25, 2007: The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis at the University of British Columbia
June 23-26, 2005: Cheiron XXXVII, International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
April 22-24, 2004: J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial at Berkeley
April 11-14, 2002: West Coast History of Science Society at UC San Francisco
April 27-29, 2001: West Coast History of Science Society at UCLA
May 5-7, 2000: West Coast History of Science Society & UC/Stanford Workshop in the History of Science
January 22-25, 1998: Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS
June 11-17, 2006: 10th International Summer School in History of Science, Uppsala
The Two Cultures in the Republic of Letters: Intellectual History in the 17th and 18th Centuries
August 29-September 3, 2004: 9th International Summer School in History of Science, Bologna
Current Approaches to the History of Science
September 16-20, 2002: 8th International Summer School in History of Science, Paris
Rethinking Scientific Knowledge in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries
June 12-17, 2000: 7th International Summer School in History of Science, Berkeley
New Knowledge and Hi-Tech in the 20th Century
COLLOQUIA AND LECTURES
Spring 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
"Seduced by Secrets, Smitten by Technology: Spy-Tech East and Spy-Tech West"
Kristie Macrakis
Georgia Institute of Technology
Monday, March 9, 2009
“The Mating Game": A Mechanized Exhibit of Mendelian Heredity at the Golden Gate International Exposition, and Genetics in the Bay Area, 1915-1947”
Betty Smocovitis
University of Florida
Monday, April 6, 2009
"Statistics of Mental Deficiency and the New Science of Human Heredity, 1890-1914"
Theodore Porter
University of California, Los Angeles
Monday, April 27, 2009
"Put a Tiger in Your Test Tube: Naturalists, Experimentalists, and the Comparative Perspective 1900-1965"
Bruno Strasser
Yale University
Fall 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Homes on the Range: A History of Science and Conservation in California's Hardwood Rangelands
Peter Alagona
Stanford University
University of California, Santa Barbara
Monday, October 27, 2008
Who Discovered What, and When, in Modern Cosmology? T.S. Kuhn and the Problematization of the Traditional Notion of Scientific "Discovery"
Keay Davidson
Former Science Writer for The San Francisco Chronicle, author of Carl Sagan: A Life (1999), and (with George Smoot), Wrinkles in Time (1993)
Monday, November 17, 2008
Commodities, Curiosities, and Symbols. Spanish Natural Collections in the XVIth Century
Susana Gomez
Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Monday, December 8, 2008
The World as a Laboratory: Biologists and the Bomb
Soraya de Chadarevian
University of California, Los Angeles
Spring 2008
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
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
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
Fall 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
The Historian and the Clones
Everett Mendelsohn
Harvard University
Monday, October 1, 2007
Hope and Suffering: Children, Cancer, and the Development of Experimental Medicine
Gretchen Krueger
Senior Historian, Wells Fargo Company
Monday, October 15, 2007
Psychology in Mind: From the Mind-Body to the Physiology-Psychology Problem
Gary Hatfield
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, October 22, 2007
Germs and Jim Crow: Scientific Racism, Microbiology, and Public Health in Progressive Era United States
Andrea Patterson
California State University, Fullerton
Monday, November 5, 2007
Catastrophic Failures and Technical Progress: Risk Communication in Software History
Rebecca Slayton
Stanford University
Monday, November 26, 2007
Assessing Microscopes: Changing Practices of Comparison and the Emergence of Test Objects
Jutta Schickore
Indiana University
Spring 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Science and the Modern World
Steven Shapin
Harvard University
Co-Sponsored with the Science, Technology, and Society Center
Monday, February 5, 2007
The Canker Friar: Piety and Intrigue in an Era of New Diseases
William Eamon
New Mexico State University
Co-Sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies
Monday, February 26, 2007
Science on the Edge: George Davidson and Science as Reconnaissance, or,
The Coast Survey as a Substrate of the University of California
John Cloud
NOAA Central Library
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Chinese History from the Viewpoint of Medicine
Nathan Sivin
University of Pennsylvania
Co-Sponsored by the Department of History
And the Center for Chinese Studies
Monday, March 5, 2007
Biomedical Scientists and Changing Definitions of Conflicts of Interest in the Post-War Period
Mark Parascandola
Tobacco Control Research Branch, National Cancer Institute
Monday, April 2, 2007
Mini-Conference: Science in Portugal - A Historical Perspective
What Do Peripheries Have To Do With Science And Technology?
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program
In cooperation with the Centro de História das Ciencias
of the Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa
Monday, April 9, 2007
"Famine Disease": A History of Starvation Science
Dana Simmons
University of California, Riverside
Thursday, April 19, 2007
"Survival is Your Business": Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America
Joseph Masco
University of Chicago
Co-Sponsored with the Science, Technology, and Society Center
And the Department of Anthropology
Monday, April 23, 2007
Philosophical Fireworks - Configurations of Arts and Sciences in Early Modern Europe
Simon Werrett
University of Washington
Monday, April 30, 2007, 12:00 p.m.
Memories of "Femelles:" Roman Engineering and Indigenous Knowledge in 17th-Century France
Chandra Mukerji
University of California, San Diego
Co-Sponsored with the Society of Women Engineers,
The Science, Technology, and Society Center,
And the Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Monday, April 30, 2007
The Botanical Imagery of Samuel de Champlain: French Botanical Collection, Religious Doctrine, and the Plants of Canada
Chandra Mukerji
University of California, San Diego
Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Periodicities and Period Relations in Babylonian Celestial Sciences
Francesca Rochberg
University of California, Riverside
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies
Fall 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Writing the History of the Psychological Subject in Twentieth-Century Britain
Mathew Thomson
University of Warwick
Co-Sponsored with the Center for British Studies
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The "Mathematisation" of "Physics" in Comparative Perspective: Greece and China
Geoffrey Lloyd
University of Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the Department of History
And the Center for Chinese Studies
Monday, September 25, 2006
Scientific Motherhood: How Women Learned to be Modern Mothers
Rima D. Apple
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Monday, October 9, 2006
Studying Contexts of Use: The Role of Users in the Creation of the Electronic Music Synthesizer
Trevor Pinch
Cornell University
Monday, October 16, 2006
Industrialisation, Measurement and Revenue in Eighteenth Century Britain
Will Ashworth
University of Liverpool
Co-Sponsored by the Center for British Studies
Monday, October 23, 2006
Science and Satire in Early Modern England
Mordechai Feingold
California Institute of Technology
Co-Sponsored by the Center for British Studies
And the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Thursday, October 26, 2006
"New Heaven, New Earth": Antony and Cleopatra and Bruno's New Cosmology
Gilberto Sacerdoti
Università di Roma III
Co-Sponsored with the Department of English,
The Department of Italian Studies,
And the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Monday, October 30
Public vs. Private Science: Biological Sewage Treatment and the Struggle Over Patents, 1896-1937
Daniel Schneider
University of Illinois
Co-Sponsored with the Science, Technology, and Society Center
Monday, November 6, 2006
When All Intellectual Property was Theft: The Nineteenth-Century Assault on Patenting and Copyright
Adrian Johns
University of Chicago
Co-Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Center,
The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology,
And the Center for British Studies
Monday, November 20, 2006
A Visible and Useful Empire: Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World
Daniela Bleichmar
University of Southern California
Monday, December 4, 2006
Translation and Transplantation: Stem Cells in History
Jane Maienschein
Arizona State University
Co-Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Center
Spring 2006
Monday, February 6, 2006
No Longer Ladies: Feminists, Medical Schools, and the Transformation of American Medicine in the 1970s
Naomi Rogers
Yale University
Monday, February 27, 2006
Public Science, Parisian Newspapers, and Scientific Journalism under the Constitutional Monarchy, 1815-1848
Bruno Belhoste
Université Paris X-Nanterre
Co-Sponsored by the French Studies Program
Monday, March 6, 2006
Basic Sciences for Nurses? The Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Education of Nurses, 1955-1975
Molly Sutphen
UCSF and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Tuesday, March 14
Gilbert Newton Lewis: His Life, Death, and the Missing Nobel Prize
Patrick Coffey
OHST Visiting Scholar
Monday, March 20, 2006
Becoming Disabled: Civil War Veterans and the Politics of Infirmity
Timothy Haggerty
Carnegie Mellon University
Monday, April 3, 2006
Monstrous Births, Medical Networks, and Obstetrical Authority in France, ca. 1780-1820
Sean M. Quinlan
University of Idaho
Monday, April 17, 2006
Biopolitics: Sustainable Forestry and Medical Police in the German Lands, 1750-1820
Sarah Jansen
Harvard University
Co-Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities
And the Science, Technology, and Society Center
Monday, May 1, 2006
The Abnormal and the Pathological: Cholesterol and the Statins, 1950-2000
Jeremy Greene
Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
Monday, May 8, 2006
A Context of Motivation: From Hydrophone and Hydrogen Bombs to Hydrothermal Vents
Naomi Oreskes
UC San Diego
Fall 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
"The Boys Upstairs": Projecting Change in the American Film Industry, 1926-1933
Emily Thompson
UC San Diego
Monday, September 19, 2005
Psychiatric Experts and the Therapeutic Ethos in the San Francisco Bay Area
Justin Suran
UC San Francisco
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
The Nobel Prize as a Mirror of 20th-Century Science and Culture
Svante Lindqvist
Nobel Museum, Stockholm
Co-Sponsored by the IAS Dean's Office,
The Science, Technology, and Society Center, and
The Center for Studies in Higher Education
Monday, October 3, 2005
How to Do Things with Books: Science, Modernity, and the New Reference Books of Twentieth Century China
Bridie Andrews Minehan
Bentley College
Co-Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and
The Center for Chinese Studies
Thursday, October 13, 2005
The Astronomer as Tattoo Artist: Inscription and Translation in Scientific Travel
Simon Schaffer
University of Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Rhetoric,
The Department of Anthropology, and
The Science, Technology, and Society Center
Monday, October 24, 2005
Goethe and the Classification of the Sciences
Jit Singh Uberoi
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Monday, November 14, 2005
Rethinking the Enlightenment: Nature and Culture in the High and Late Enlightenment
Peter Reill
UCLA
Monday, November 28, 2005
Comparative Embryology and Evo-Devo History: Lessons from N.J. Berrill's Embryological Investigations of Marine Invertebrate Evolution
Alan Love
UC Santa Cruz
Monday, December 5, 2005
The Place of Babylonian Astronomy in the General History of Science
Francesca Rochberg
UC Riverside
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies
And the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Spring 2005
Monday, January 24, 2005
The Pulse of Modernism: Experimental Physiology and Artistic Avant-Garde ca. 1900
Robert M. Brain
University of British Columbia
Monday, January 31, 2005
Jefferson's Shrivelled Grapes: Culture and Degeneracy in the Period of the American Revolution
Philip J. Pauly
Rutgers University
Monday, February 14, 2005
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Biologists, Philosophers, and Historians Play upon the History of Systematics
Mary P. Winsor
University of Toronto
Monday, February 28, 2005
Enlightenment Climatology and the Problem of America
Jan Golinski
University of New Hampshire
Monday, March 13, 2005
Between Balaam and Behemoth: Interrogating the Devils of Loudon, 1629-1634
Robert A. Hatch
University of Florida
Friday, April 1, 2005
Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in the 18th-Century Atlantic World
Londa Schiebinger
Stanford University
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Rhetoric
Monday, April 4, 2005
Sex, Drugs, and Money: The Public and the Monopoly of Desperation in U.S. Reproductive Technologies
Charis Thompson
UC Berkeley
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Technology in Ancient Greek and Judaic Religions
Theodosios Tassios
National Technical University, Athens
Co-Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
Monday, April 18, 2005
Reexamining the Pelvic: The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Pelvic Instruction Controversy of the 1970s
Wendy Kline
University of Cincinnati
Monday, May 2, 2005
Making Silicon Valley, 1930-1970
Christophe Lécuyer
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Monday, May 9, 2005
Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992
Maurice Finocchiaro
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Fall 2004
Monday, September 13, 2004
The Neutral Gender: William H. Masters and the Problem of Aging
Elizabeth Watkins
UC San Francisco
Monday, September 27, 2004
Axioms, Essences, and Mostly Clean Hands: Refashioning Chemistry with Libavius and Aristotle
Bruce Moran
University of Nevada-Reno
Monday, October 11, 2004
Let Them Read German: The Zeitschrift für Chemie, Emil Erlenmeyer, and the Creation of Russian Chemistry
Michael Gordin
Princeton University
Monday, October 25, 2004
Wilder Penfield and the Surgical Extraction of Memory, 1930-1970
Alison Winter
University of Chicago
Monday, November 1, 2004
Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe
George Saliba
Columbia University
Monday, November 15, 2004
Nervous Modernism: Rewriting the Physiology of Sensation after 1900
Stephen Jacyna
University College, London
Monday, December 6, 2004
Engineering the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Older Quantum Theory, 1920-1925
Suman Seth
Cornell University
Spring 2004
Monday, February 2, 2004
Hawking Hawking: Following the Fabrication of an Autobiographical Text
Hélène Mialet
UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology and Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
Thursday, February 19, 2004
The Secrets of Women: Gender and Human Dissection in Renaissance Italy
Katharine Park
Harvard University
Co-sponsored with the Department of Italian Studies
Monday, March 1, 2004
Speaking of Sunspots: Christoph Scheiner, Galileo Galilei, and the Oral Tradition
Eileen Reeves
Princeton University
Co-sponsored with the Department of Italian Studies
Monday, March 15, 2004
Place Matters: Historical Lessons from Chinese Medical Geography for Understanding SARS
Marta Hanson
UC San Diego
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Two Systems, One Culture? Science and Technology in East and West Germany 1949-1989
Ulrich Wengenroth
Technical University of Munich
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of European Studies
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Learning from Persecution: Scientific Change and Self-Reflection after 1933
Mitchell G. Ash
University of Vienna
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of European Studies
Monday, April 19, 2004
Efficiency, Slavery, and Pride: Industrial Efficiency and the Dispute over Time on the Cross
Jennifer Alexander
University of Minnesota
Spring 2003
Monday, January 27, 2003
Karl Pearson's Utopia of Scientific Education: From Graphical Statics to Statistical Mathematics
Theodore Porter
UCLA
Monday, February 10, 2003
Perspectives on the Environmental History of an Industrial City: Water, Air, and Land Issues in Pittsburgh
Joel A. Tarr
Carnegie Mellon University
Monday, February 24, 2003
Science in a Chinese Entrepot: Art, Commerce, and Natural History in the Early Modern World
Fa-ti Fan
State University of New York at Binghamton
Monday, March 10, 2003
Zöllner and Helmholtz: Academic Communication as Witchcraft
Albert Kümmel
Feodor Lynen Fellow at UC Santa Barbara
Monday, March 17, 2003
The Standardization of Aesthetic Qualities: The Music and Physics of Reed Pipes in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin
Myles W. Jackson
Willamette University
Monday, April 7, 2003
Liberal Science in the German States: Herman von Helmholtz, Ernst Mach and their Alternative Programs for Science
Edward Jurkowitz
University of Illinois at Chicago
Monday, April 21, 2003
Nerve-force, Electricity and Medical Commodities: Professionalization of Medicine Reconsidered
Takahiro Ueyama
Sophia University, Tokyo, and Stanford University
Monday, May 5, 2003
Enlightenment, Invention, and Chance: The Early Age of Electricity Revisited
Giuliano Pancaldi
University of Bologna and Dibner Institute
Spring 2003
Monday, September 22, 2003
Inheritance and Animal Hybrids in the 18th Century
Mary Terrall
UCLA
Monday, October 13, 2003
Greek Mathematics: A Peculiar Science
Reviel Netz
Stanford University
Monday, October 20, 2003
Miscengenation, the Modern Synthesis, and the 60s
Paul Lawrence Farber
Oregon State University
Monday, November 17, 2003
What Might a Long History of Knowledge Look Like? Ways of Knowing in and beyond the Sciences
John Pickstone
University of Manchester
Monday, December 1, 2003
The Goodness and Badness of Air: Environmental Health in the Age of Enlightenment and Industrialization
Brian Dolan
UC San Francisco
Fall 2002
David Mindell, MIT
Between Human and Machine: Rethinking the History of Computing
Monday, December 9, 2002
Mario Biagioli, Harvard University
The Modernity of Galileo
Monday, November 25, 2002
Dr. Rachel A. Ankeny, Director, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
Nematodes as Early Biochemical Models: Excavating Conceptual Forerunners in the History of Recent Life Science
Monday, November 4, 2002
Robert E. Kohler, Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Up Brush Creek...: Ecologists Define Their Field
Monday, October 28, 2002
Antonio Barrera, Colgate University
Spain and the Atlantic World: Episodes in the History of Science
Monday, October 7, 2002
Christine Blondel, CNRS (Cité des sciences et de l'industrie), Paris
Ampère's Life and Intellectual Production: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism
Monday, September 30, 2002
Spring 2002
Ken Alder, Department of History, Northwestern University
A Social History of Untruth: Trust and Lie Detectors in Twentieth-Century America
Monday, April 29, 2002
Bruce Sinclair, Formerly Melvin Kranzberg Professor of History of Technology before retiring in 1996, Georgia Tech
Engineering a Coup: Hetch-Hetchy Revisited
Monday, April 8, 2002
Angela N.H. Creager, Department of History, Princeton University
Biomedicine in the Atomic Age: The U.S. AEC's Radioisotope Distribution Program and Trends in Postwar Research
Monday, March 18, 2002
Susan Leigh Star, Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego
The Shapes of Infrastructure
Monday, February 25, 2002
Alexei Kojevnikov, Department of History, University of Georgia
The Great War, the Russian Civil War, and the Invention of Big Science
Monday, February 11, 2002
Fall 2001
Douglas Powell, University of Guelph
Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: Historical Underpinnings of Animal Disease in the United Kingdom
Monday, December 3, 2001
M. Norton Wise, UCLA
What's in a Line? The Three D's: Dürer, Dirichlet, DuBois
Monday, November 26, 2001
Tal Golan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Visuality and Authority: The Careers of Visual Technologies in Medicine and Law
Monday, November 5, 2001
Lawrence Centennial Lectures
"Lawrence and Fermi: A Joint Centennial"
John L. Heilbron, Office for History of Science and Technology, UC Berkeley
"Remembrances of Ernest O. Lawrence and His Laboratory After World War II"
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Monday, October 29, 2001
Barbara Stein, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley
Of Mice and Men: Annie Montague Alexander and the Development of Natural History at the University of California
Monday, October 22, 2001
John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
US Scientific Leadership and Scientific Manpower in the 1950s Cold War
Monday, October 8, 2001
Ruth Schwarz Cowan, SUNY Stony Brook
Can a Eugenics Program be Morally Right and Politically Correct? Thalassemia Prevention in Cyprus
Monday, October 1, 2001
Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley
Enlightenment Medicine and the 'Discovery' of Solitary Sex
Monday, September 17, 2001
Spring 2001
Jessica Riskin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eighteenth-Century Wetware
Monday, April 23, 2001
Lynn Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Gorilla in the Museum: From Dangerous Predator to Gentle Giant
Monday, April 9, 2001
Stuart W. Leslie, Johns Hopkins University
Industrial Versailles: Eero Saarinen's Corpate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T.
Monday, March 12, 2001
Diana Long, University of Southern Maine
Their Secret Gardens: "The Women of the Institute of Experimental Biology, Berkeley 1915-1940"
Monday, February 26, 2001
Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs
Friday, February 16, 2001
Paula Findlen, Stanford University
Inventing Nature: Commerce, Art, and Science in the Early Modern Cabinet of Curiosities
Monday, January 22, 2001
Fall 2000
Michael John Gorman, Stanford University
Correspondence Networks and the Reform of Natural Knowledge: Athanasius Kircher's Geographical Project
Monday, December 4, 2000
Francesca Bordogna, University of Notre Dame
Scientific Ethos and Scientific Epistemologies: Three Case Studies in American Psychology
Monday, November 20, 2000
Deborah Harkness, University of California, Davis
Communities of Knowledge and Practice: Science in Elizabethan London
Monday, November 13, 2000
Warwick Anderson, University of Melbourne and University of California, San Francisco
They Sink and Show No Trace -- or Do They? The Harvard-Adelaide 'Half-Caste' Survey, 1938-39
Monday, September 25, 2000
Jack Lesch, University of California, Berkeley
The Sulfa Drugs as Historical Project
Monday, September 11, 2000
Spring 2000
T.N. Narasimhan, UC Berkeley
Fourier, His Time and Influence
Monday, May 8, 2000
Lorelai Kury
Accounts of Nature in Scientific Journey
Monday, May 1, 2000
Steve Glickman
Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago: Natural Selection and the Human Mind
Monday, April 24, 2000
Abigail Lustig
Natural Atheology
Monday, April 3, 2000
Pierre Laszlo
In Any Shape or Form? Platonic Solids and Molecular Geometry
Monday, March 20, 2000
Nick Rasmussen
Biotechnology Before the Biotech Revolution: Life Scientists and Industrialists in 1930s-1950s America
Monday, January 30, 2000
"Ethics, Genetic Technologies, and Social Responsibility in the 21st Century"
Panel Discussion Featuring
Charles Weiner, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, ESPM, UC Berkeley
Diane Beeson, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, CSU-Hayward
Paul R. Billings, M.D., Ph.D., GeneSage, Inc., San Francisco
Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D., Exploratory Initiative on the New Human Genetic Technologies, San Francisco
Steve Shapin
Vulgar epistemology: common-sense revisited
Monday, February 7, 4:00 p.m, Townsend Center, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Follow-up discussion Tuesday, February 8, 4:00 p.m., Stone Room, Bancroft Library
Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Bruno Latour
The Avenali Lectures: Politics of nature
The end of nature as a way to organize our polity
Tuesday, April 11, 8:00 p.m., 145 Dwinelle Hall
Bringing the sciences into democracy
Tuesday, April 18, 8:00 p.m., 145 Dwinelle Hall
Follow-up discussion, Thursday, April 20, 4:00 pm., Townsend Center, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities
