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)