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Friday, January 19th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No seminar this week.
Friday, January 26th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Lisa Gannett, Department of Philosophy, Saint Mary's University
Subject: Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Typological-Population Distinction, and the Question of Race
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m. Cosponsored by Studies of Science and Tech., the MN Cntr for Philosophy of Sci., the Consortium on Law & Values in Health, Env. & Life Sciences
Friday, February 2nd 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Helen Rozwadowski, Department of History, University of Connecticut
Subject: Science, Technology, and the 1960s Ocean: New Worlds of Exploration and Exploitation
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 9th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Nina Lerman, Department of History, Whitman College
Subject: Jim Crow and the White Way: Thoughts on Race, Progress, and Early Electrification in the US.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 16th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No H.S.T. Colloquium this week.
Friday, February 23rd 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Eileen Reeves, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Subject: Mere Projections: Galileo and Scheiner on the Sunspots
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 2nd 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Mark Borrello, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota
Subject: There's no success like failure: 'Relative Significance' in Evolutionary Biology and the History of Evolutionary Biology
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 9th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No colloquium: Spring Break
Friday, March 16th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Spring Break: No Colloquium this week.
Friday, March 23rd 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: William Ashworth, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO
Subject: Bucculentus: The Underside of the Scientific Revolution
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 30th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: C. Kenneth Waters, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Subject: "Causes that Make a Difference"
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 6th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Subject: No Colloquium this week.
Friday, April 13th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Subject: No Colloquium this week.
Friday, April 20th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Alan Beyerchen, Department of History, Ohio State University
Subject: Clausewitz and the Quest for a Science of War
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 27th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Subject: No Colloquium this week.
Friday, May 4th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jessica Wang
Subject: Social Science and the American State: From the Social Survey to the New Deal
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, May 11th 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
This colloquium will resume in the fall.
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