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Friday, January 20th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
There is no Colloquium this week.
Friday, January 27th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jennifer Alexander
Subject: Efficiency and Pathology: Mechanical Discipline and Efficient Worker Seating in Germany, 1929-1932
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, February 3rd 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Judith Goodstein, Institute Archives, California Institute of Technology
Subject: The Volterra Chronicles.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, February 10th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jeffrey Bub, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Cosponsored by the MN Center for Philosophy of Science
Subject: The Entangled World: Does Information Solve the Puzzle?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 17th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: David Cassidy, Natural Science Program, Hofstra University
Subject: J. Robert Oppenheimer: His Life, His Science, His Biography.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, February 24th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Gregory Good, Department of History, West Virginia University
Subject: Geophysical Travellers: The Magneticians of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, March 3rd 2006
3:35 pm:
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLOQUIUM in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jeanne Fahnestock, Dept. of English, Univ. of Maryland, College
Subject: Shaping the Case: Rhetorical Schemes in Scientific Argument
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m
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Friday, March 10th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
No Colloquium - Spring Break
Friday, March 17th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
No Colloquium: Spring Break
Thursday, March 23rd 2006
7:00 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in Ted Mann Concert Hall, on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota
Speaker: Peter Singer, Center for Human Values, Princeton Univ., Cosponsored by the MN Cntr. for Philosophy of Science and Dept. of Philosophy
Subject: Ethics and Animals
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Friday, March 24th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Daniel Kevles, Department of History, Yale University
Subject: Breeding, Biotechnology, and Agriculture: The Establishment and Protection of Intellectual Property in Animals Since the Late Eighteenth Century.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, March 31st 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in Carlson School of Business, room TBA
Speaker: Nancy Tuana, Dept. of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, Cosponsored by the MN Cntr. for Philosophy of Science and Dept.of Philosophy
Subject: The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, April 7th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Paul Farber, Department of History, Oregon State University
Subject: Miscegenation, the Modern Synthesis, and the 60s.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, April 14th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Matthew Klingle, Department of History, Bowdoin College
Subject: Seattle's 'Metro Monster': Ecological Restoration and Geographies of Inequality.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, April 21st 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Hans Halvorson, Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton Univ. Cosponsored by the MN Cntr. for Philosophy of Science.
Subject: The Fate of Parastatistics.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 28th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jane Maienschein, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Subject: From Transplantation to Translation: Stems Cells in History.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, May 5th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
No Seminar. Will resume in the fall.
Thursday, September 14th 2006
3:30 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 710 Social Sciences Building, Ford Room
Speaker: Carola Sachse, Institute of Modern History, University of Vienna. Cosponsored by Center for German and European Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, and Department of History.
Subject: On Men and Animals: The Vivisection Debate in 19th Century Germany.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, September 15th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Carola Sachse, Institute of Modern History, University of Vienna. Cosponsored by Center for German and European Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, and Department of History.
Subject: Science and Power: The Kaiser Wilhelm Society in an International Comparative Perspective, 1933-1945.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, September 22nd 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Robert Richards, Fishbein Center for History of Science, University of Chicago
Subject: Did Ernst Haeckel Fraudulently Misrepresent His Embryo Illustrations? And Why Do the Creationists Care?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, September 29th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, University of Hannover. Cosponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
Subject: Systematicity: On the Nature of Science
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, October 6th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
No colloquium this week.
Friday, October 13th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Alan Rocke, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Subject: Imagining the Molecular World
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, October 20th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jerry Fodor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Cosponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science and the Department of Philosophy.
Subject: An Evolutionary Cognitive Science? We Should Live So Long.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 27th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Tom Misa, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Subject: Revisiting the Rate and Direction of Technical Change: Scenarios and Counterfactuals in the Information Technology Revolution
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, November 3rd 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
No colloquium: HSS/PSA Meetings
Friday, November 10th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Kai-Henrik Barth, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University
Subject: Scientists and the Making of the Iranian Nuclear Program
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, November 17th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Daniel P. Steel, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. Cosponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
Subject: Extrapolation, Capacities, and Mechanisms
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 24th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
No colloquium this week: Thanksgiving
Friday, December 1st 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Niccolò Guicciardini, Dept. of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Univ.of Siena. Cosponsored by Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) Research Collaborative supported by the Univ.of Minnesota
Subject: Not Worthy of Public Utterance: Newton on the Publication of Analysis
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, December 8th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Speaker: Eda Kranakis, Department of History, University of Ottawa
Subject: Building European Identity and Community through Civil Aviation: The Struggle Between Nationalism and Internationalism in the 1920s
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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Friday, December 15th 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Colloquium is done for this semester.
Friday, December 22nd 2006
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium in 131 Physics
Colloquium is done for this semester.

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