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semester, 2004
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Friday, January 23rd 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Jerome Jackson, Whitaker Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Florida Gulf Coast University
Subject: Hand-Me-Down Technology, Kids, and the Origins of Natural Science
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, January 30th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: John Lynch, Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University
Subject: Anti-Evolutionism and Contested Authority in the Natural Sciences Since 1800
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 6th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: John Krige, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
Subject: A 'Marshall Plan' for European Science: The US's Role in Establishing CERN.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 13th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: George Gale, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Subject: How Many Universes ARE There, and Who Cares Anyway?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 20th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Matthias Schemmel, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Early Modern Mechanics
Subject: The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot and the Force of Shared Knowledge
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 27th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Margaret Morrison, Philosophy Dept., University of Toronto
Subject: Still A Mystery: The Fourth Quantum Number
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 5th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Miriam Levin, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Subject: Measuring Technological Time: From the Eiffel Tower to Parislasvegas.com
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 12th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, March 19th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, March 26th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: David Cahan, Department of History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Subject: Hero of Pure Science and Research: Helmholtz and the Shaping of the American Physics Elite in the Gilded Age
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 2nd 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, April 9th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Ann Shteir, York University
Subject: 'Fac-Similes of Nature': Modelling Wax Flowers for Art, Science, and Profit
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 16th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Catherine Westfall, Argonne National Laboratory
Subject: he Story of EBR-II: A Nuclear Narrative
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 23rd 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Subject: Imagination and Other Subtle Effluvia in Early Modern Europe
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 30th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Richard Grandy, Department of Philosophy, Rice University
Subject: Assumptions, Data and Ethics: A Neo-Kuhnian Revisiting of the Millikan-Ehrenhaft Dispute
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, May 7th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Diane Paul, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts
Subject: On Drawing Lessons from the History of Eugenics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, September 10th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, September 17th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Paul Teller, Department of Philosophy, University of California-Davis
Subject: De-idealizing Truth
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, September 24th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Bruce Hevly, Department of History, University of Washington
Subject: A Death in Chamonix: Victorian Alpine Science, Long-Legged Men and the Exploration of Glacier Ice
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 1st 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Allan Franklin, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Subject: The Solar Neutrino Problem and Its Solution
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Monday, October 4th 2004
12:20 pm:
Special History of Science and Technology Seminar
in 555 Diehl Hall
Speaker: William Newman, Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University, Bloomington
Subject: The Use of Alchemy to Establish the Limits of Science: From the Middle Ages to the President's Council on Bioethics
Note different day, time and place
Friday, October 8th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Garland Allen, Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis
Subject: Eugenics and Its Opposition, 1910-1945: What Have We Learned
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 15th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Philip Pauly, Department of History, Rutgers University
Subject: Fixing the Accidents of Natural History: Arboriculture and the Problem of the Prairie in the 19th Century
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 22nd 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Thomas Misa, The Lewis Department of Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology
Subject: The Materiality of Americanism and Anti-Americanism: Skyscrapers in Europe Between the Wars
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 29th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Sharon Kingsland, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
Subject: Size Doesn't Matter: The Interpretation of the X and Y Chromosomes, 1905-1913
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 5th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
Subject: Structure and Perspective: How Far Does Realism Reach?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 12th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: James Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Subject: Science in the Sun, Life on the Moon: Transatlantic Journalism and Scientific Discovery in 1835
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 19th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, November 26th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, December 3rd 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Vernon Ruttan, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
Subject: Military Procurement and Technology Development: Is War Necessary
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, December 10th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Margaret Jacob, Department of History, UCLA
Subject: Science and the Origins of Western Cosmopolitanism
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, December 17th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, December 24th 2004
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium has ended for the semester.
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