February Working Groups and Events
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
February 2, 2017
Sigrid Schmalzer of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will discuss sections of her book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016).
- Early Modern Science
February 3, 2017
TBA - History and Theory
February 7, 2017
TBA - History and Philosophy of Science
February 8, 2017
Reading: Creating Consilience, chs. 5 and 7 (for and against methodological unity between humanistic and natural scientific approaches in cultural anthropology).
- Ancient and Medieval Sciences
February 9, 2017
TBA - Science Beyond the West
February 10, 2017
TBA - Human Sciences
February 15, 2017
TBA
- Medicine and Health
February 17, 2017
TBA - Physical Sciences
February 21, 2017
Sarah Robey, Temple University
Events
Please check the Consortium Events Calendar for more details on the events below.
- February 1, 2017
Douglas Kondziolka, New York University
The Roles of Physicians in 19th Century Polar Exploration
New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY) - February 6, 2017
Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College
HSS Workshop
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) - February 6, 2017
Carolyn Roberts, Harvard University
Race, Science, & Social Justice Lecture Series
Yale University (New Haven, CT)
- February 7, 2017
Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge
Inscription, Digitization and the Shape of Knowledge
New York University (New York, NY) - February 13, 2017
Spring Greeney, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brown Bag Lecture: What Clean Smells Like: Commercial Chemists and the Politics of Women’s Work in the Mid-Century United States
Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) - February 13, 2017
Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts
HSS Workshop: Rethinking Racial Science Through Black Intellectual History
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) - February 13, 2017
Steven Palmer, University of Windsor
Miracles in Modern Medical Cinema: The Birth of a New Visual Culture at Expo 67
Yale University (New Haven, CT) - February 20, 2017
Cari Casteel, Auburn University
Brown Bag Lecture: A Better Mousetrap for Your Armpit: Deodorant and Technological Innovation
Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) - February 20, 2017
Judy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Humanities Forum
HSS Workshop: Automating the ‘Aha!: A History of Standardizing Jugments about Linguistic Relationship
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) - February 20, 2017
Laura Briggs, University of Massachusetts
Fertility, Infertility, Race: Of ARTs and Infant Mortality
Yale University (New Haven, CT) - February 22, 2017
Stephanie Dick, University of Pennsylvania
After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in Postwar United States
Center for Science & Society at Columbia University (New York, NY) - February 23, 2017
Conference: The Science of Information, 1870-1945: The Universalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) - February 23, 2017
Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University
Speaking Scientific Internationalism
Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) - February 27, 2017
Joe Martin, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Brown Bag Lecture: Rethinking Industrial Patronage of Academic Research in the Early Cold War
Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) - February 27, 2017
Sarah Ehlers, University of Leicester
HSS Workshop: Science in a Colonial Context. Sleeping Sickness, Race, and Modern Medicine in sub-Saharan Africa, 1840-1940
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)