HSSC Fall 2007 Workshops
Full schedule of the workshops offered by the Department of History and Sociology of Science in Fall 2007.
Mondays from 4pm until 6pm in 337 Logan Hall (unless otherwise noted)
September 10
Matthew Eddy, Durham University
Reading Practices and Natural History Texts in Enlightenment Edinburgh
September 17
HSSC Opening of the Semester Party in the Logan Lounge
September 24
Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine
Crime, Privacy, & Identity in the Age of Genetics & Information Technology
October 1
Babak Ashrafi, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS)
Born's Bad Bet
October 8
Bruno Strasser, Yale University
Banking Biology: Property, Privacy and Priority in Late 20th Century Databases
October 16, 3-6pm, Logan 402 (Tuesday)
Peter Galison, Harvard University
'SECRECY': Communicating Scholarship through Film (Screening and Discussion)
October 26, location TBA (Friday)
Joint workshop with the Philosophy Department
John Beatty, University of British Columbia
Karl Popper, Darwinism, and Totalitarianism
October 29
Jutta Schikore, Indiana University
Early 19th Century Microscopy
November 5
Wendy Kline, University of Cincinnati
Bodies of Evidence: Activists, Patients, and the FDA Regulation of Depo Provera
November 12
Gabriella Petrick, New York University
Industrializing Taste: Using Science and Technology to Historicize Our Sense of Taste
November 19
Paul Offit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
One Scientist's Perspectives on the History of Vaccines
November 26
John Krige, Georgia Tech
Technology as an Instrument of US Foreign Policy
December 3
Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan
Making Global Data, Making Data Global: Climate Change and Meteorological Data Infrastructures
