February 28, 2018
Working Groups
Scholars can participate in Consortium Working Groups online or in person, in Philadelphia and other locations. Please follow links below for details.
- 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