Holmes Workshop Series

The Holmes Workshop Series aims to encourage scholarly discussions of ongoing research among graduate students and faculty members at Yale working on projects related to the history of science and medicine, while fostering a sense of community spirit and collegiality among members of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. It is named after Dr. Frederic L. Holmes, former chairman of the Program.

Holmes workshops run from 4:30-6:00 on certain Mondays throughout the fall and spring semesters (see schedule). Presenters are encouraged to pre-circulate their papers or chapters when possible.

Academic Year 2009-2010 Holmes Workshop Series

Fall

September 21
Thomas Reznick
Cultures of Cultures: Standardizing a Model Organism at the Yale E. Coli Genetic Stock Center, 1968-1990

October 5
Paul Shin
Making Physicians Out of Flesh: Specimen Making as Self-Making in the Early Republic

October 19
Miranda Paton
Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis

November 2
Sage Ross
Between the Two Biologies: Competing Visions of Molecular Evolution

November 16
Heather Varughese
The American Medical Association and Medical Resident Unionization in the 1970s

December 7
Mandisa Mbali
Women in South African AIDS Activism, 1990-2003

Spring

January 25
Justin Barr
Special Forces Medics, Physician's Assistants, and Professionalization

February 1
Rana Hogarth
Getting Under the Skin, or the Meaning of Race in West India Military Hospitals, 1800-1827

February 15
Joy Rankin
Evolution in the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study: How the Modern Synthesis Permeated 1960s American Classrooms

February 22
Helen Curry
Maize and X Rays: Lewis J. Stadler's Mutation Research and its Relation to Agriculture

March 29
Ying Jia Tan
Pictorial Conversations: Reevaluating the Place of Cartography in the late-Ming Jesuit Mission Between 1583 and 1644

April 12
Heidi Knoblauch
Drawing Policy: Health Care Policy Cartoons in the New Yorker