Spring 2009 Monday Workshop
Workshop begins at 3:30 pm in Claudia Cohen [Logan] 337 and is followed by refreshments in Cohen 351
January 26 Mary Summers, University of Pennsylvania
“Something for the fellow who works in the field with his coat off: Agrarian rhetoric, identity, and politics in the establishment of the USDA as a 'problem-solving’ scientific bureaucracy”
February 2 Perrin Selcer, University of Pennsylvania
“Do Epistemologies Have Politics? Science for a World Community After WWII"
February 9 John McNeil, Georgetown University
"Lord Cornwallis v. Anopheles Quadrimaculatus: Mosquitoes, Malaria, and the American Revolution"
February 16 Rob Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
"Wildlife Ecology: A residential field science"
February 23 Bryn Williams-Jones, University of Montreal
"Whither Personal Information in an Era of Recreational Genomics?"
Co-sponsored by PennCIGHT (Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies)
March 2 Miriam Ticktin, New School for Social Research
"From Redundancy to Recognition: Transnational Humanitarianism and the Production of Non-Moderns"
March 16 David Shearer, University of Delaware
"Russian and Soviet Explorers in Central Asia, 1870s to the 1930s"
*March 23 Kristin Peterson, University of California - Irvine
"AIDS and its futures: Drugs, AIDS activism, and US foreign policy to Nigeria"
March 30 Andi Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
“Human Conditions: The Everyday Practice of the Science of Human Performance”
April 6 C. Kenneth Waters, University of Minnesota
"Getting Real about Genetics and Genomics: An Antirealist Perspective."
April 13 Christina Cogdell, University of Pennsylvania
"The Challenge of Post-Darwinian Theories for Emergent Genetic Architecture"
April 20 James Delburgo, Rutgers University
"Slavery in the Cabinet of Curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic World"