Colloquia

The Program sponsors a regular biweekly Colloquium during the fall and spring terms. Its aim is to enlarge the engagement of faculty and, especially, students with the diverse approaches and cutting-edge work of both junior and senior scholars from the United States and abroad in the history of science and medicine. The colloquium is well attended and is the site of vigorous discussion following the talks.

All colloquia, workshops and lectures are scheduled for 4:30 pm. When they are held in the Fulton Room in Sterling Hall of Medicine, there will be tea at 4:00.

Fall Term 2009

September 14, 2009
Gregg Mitman, Interim Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, William Coleman Professor of the History of Science, Professor Medical History and Science & Technology Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, Room 211)

September 28, 2009
Monica Green, Professor of History, Arizona State University.
“Expanding the Ambitions of Medical History, or How to be Materialistic in a Recession.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

October 8, 2009 - Holmes Lecture
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and History of Science, Harvard University
“The Mystery of Presence: An Approach to the Comparative History of Medicine..”
(Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar Street, room H110)

October 12, 2009
Deborah Harkness, Professor of History, University of Southern California
“From the Jewel House to Salomon's House--and Beyond: Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern England .”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, room 119B)

October 26, 2009
George Weisz, Professor, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University
“The Reinvention of Chronic Disease in the 20th Century .”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

November 9, 2009
Fa-ti Fan, Associate Professor, Department of History, The State University of New York at Binghamton
“Science, Earthquake Monitoring, and Everyday Knowledge in Communist China”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, room 119B)

November 30, 2009
David Cantor, Deputy Director and Senior Research Historian, Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health
“Commercial Film Companies and Medical Movies in the Early Twentieth Century.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

Spring Term 2010

January 25, 2010
Leslie Reagan, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois
“Dangerous Pregnancies: German Measles, Disabilities, and Abortion”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

February 8, 2010
Stuart W. "Bill" Leslie, Professor, History of Science and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University.
“A Machine for Healing: Bertrand Goldberg's Hospital Architecture”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, room 119B)

February 22, 2010
Julie Livingston, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
“Regarding the Pain of Africans: Making Historical Sense of Ethnography in an African Oncology Ward.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

March 1, 2010
Myles Jackson, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
“Rights in Receptors: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene.”
(Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, room 119B)

March 22, 2010
Theodore Brown, Professor of History, University of Rochester
“The WHO, Internationalism, and the Cold War.”
(Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215, tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., all are welcome)

April 5, 2010
Deborah Cohen, Professor of History, Brown University.
“The Children Who Disappeared: Mental Disability and the Family in Britain, 1870-1960.”
(Location of talk to be announced)