February 28, 2018

Working Groups

• Biological Sciences
  Thursday, February 1, 2018 – 6:00pm EST
  Excerpts from: John Jackson Jr .and David J. Depew, Darwinism, Democracy and race: Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2017)
• Early Modern Science
  Friday, February 2, 2018 – 12:00pm EST
  We will discuss a selection of articles from the June 2017 special issue of History of Science on Iberian science.  Maria Portuondo, who wrote the introduction to this issue, will join us from Johns Hopkins.
• Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Wednesday, February 7, 2018 – 6:00pm
  We will discuss the recent Osiris volume on “Data Histories”.
• History and Theory
  Friday, February 9, 2018 – 3:30pm
  We will discuss the introduction and Chapter 5 of Nikhil Anand, Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke University Press, 2017).
• History and Philosophy of Science
  Wednesday, February 14, 2018 – 6:15pm
  This Spring we will be reading:
  Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering, eds., Science as it Could Have Been (Pittsburgh, 2015). For the first meeting, please read Chapters 1 and 2. Noel Swanson (U of Delaware) will be leading off the discussion.
• Physical Sciences
  Friday, February 16, 2018 – 9:30am
  Gabriel Henderson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD.  “Resurrecting Maunder’s Ghost: John ‘Jack’ Eddy, the Maunder Minimum, and the Rise of a Dilettante Astrophysicist.”
• Technology
  Tuesday, February 20, 2018 – 6:00pm
  Christopher Otter, Ohio State, will present an excerpt from his book-in-progress “The Vital State: Food Systems, Nutrition Transitions, and the Making of Industrial Britain”.
• Human Sciences
  Wednesday, February 21, 2018 – 6:00pm
  We will be discussing chapters from the book The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent with its author, historian Michael Robinson.

Events

Please check the Consortium Events Calendar for more details on the events below.

• February 1, 2018
  Ellen Cohn, Yale University
  Barbara Oberg, Princeton University
  Editing Franklin
  American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA)
• February 1, 2018
  It’s Alive! Frankenstein and the Modern World
  The Rosenbach (Philadelphia, Pa)
• February 5, 2018
  Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University
  The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States
  Columbia University (New York, NY)
• February 9, 2018
  Decent of Darwin
  Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• February 10, 2018
  John A. Higgins, Princeton
  Wagner’s Winter Wonderland: The Ice Age
  Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia, PA)
• February 14, 2018
  Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, MD, FACOG, National Birth Equity Collaborative
  Dr. William Callaghan, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Merck & Co.
  The 2018 New York Maternal Mortality Summit
  The New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
• February 15, 2018
  Margaret Farr, Independent Art Historian
  A Brief History of Photography
  Newberry Library (Chicago, IL)
• February 16, 2018
  After Matter: Rupture, Persistence, Survival
  University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• February 17, 2018
  Robert Hicks, College of Physicians
  Vaccination Pure and Spurious: The Confederate Vaccination Crisis of the Civil War
  Community College of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
• February 20, 2018
  Paul Jackson, University of Delaware
  “The Money Value of a Man:” Healthy Bodies Through Economics
  University of Delaware (Newark, DE)
• February 22, 2018
  Cathy Gere, University of California, San Diego
  Medical Hedonists in the Kingdom of Ends: Patient Autonomy since the National Research Act
  Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• February 28, 2018
  Susan L. Burns, University of Chicago
  Leprosy and Medical Knowledge Production in Japan, 17th-20th Century
  Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• February 28, 2018
  Benjamin Wurgaft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cultured Meat and Three Futures of Flesh
  University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• February 28, 2018
  Lynette Regouby
  Threshold: Generations of Change in Botanical Practice at the end of the Ancien Regime
  Columbia University (New York, NY)

Posted: February 05, 2018