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Friday, September 9th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week.
Friday, September 16th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 1-102 Hanson Hall, West Bank
Speaker: Daniel Garber, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
Subject: On the Front Lines of the Scientific Revolution: Novatores vs. Aristotelians
Friday, September 23rd 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Alberto Martinez, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Subject: The Evolution of Myths in History of Science: Galileo, Darwin and Einstein
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, September 30th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Miles MacLeod, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna
Subject: A New Look at Grouping Practices in the Life Sciences: Significant Kinds and the Epistemic Roles of Kind Concepts
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 7th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Karl Niklas, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University
Subject: The Bio-logic of Plant Development and Morphogenesis
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 14th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Pnina Abir-Am, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
Subject: The Road not Taken: Ego-histoire or My Autobiographical Encounter with Pioneering Women Scientists (Two Nobel Laureates and a 'Scientist Interrupted')
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 21st 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Author: Susan Jones, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota. Readers: Peter Koolmees, Descartes Centre, University of Utrecht; Dominique Tobbell, History of Medicine, Univ of Min
Subject: Author Meets Readers: Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.; also reception and book signing after presentation
Friday, October 28th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Eric Schatzberg, Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Subject: Lost in Translation: German Theory and the American Concept of Technology between the World Wars
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 4th 2011
No colloquium this week.
Friday, November 11th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Bruce Moran, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno
Subject: Scheide-Kunst: Alchemy, Agency, and Magic in the Early Modern Experience of Nature and the Body
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 18th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Author: Stephen Kellert, Dept of Philosophy, Hamline University. Readers: William Wimsatt, Dept of Philosophy, University of Chicago; Ron Giere, Dept of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Author Meets Readers: Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 25th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week. University closed for Thanksgiving.
Friday, December 2nd 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Sabina Leonelli, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter
Subject: Towards an Epistemology of e-Biology
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, December 9th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Friday, December 16th 2011
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
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