Fall 2009 Workshop
Fall 2009 Workshop
History & Sociology of Science, Medicine & Technology
Mondays - 3:30- 5:30pm - 337 Cohen Hall
(note changes of time and/or venue for Sept. 21 and Oct. 26)
September 14—Opening Reception
September 21 Susan Reynolds Whyte, University of Copenhagen
“Living with ART: The first generation in Uganda”
4:00pm Terrace Room Claudia Cohen Hall (Note change of time and venue)
Whyte is the 2009 African Studies Scholar for a Day. Scholar for a Day is a day-long graduate student event where student panels discuss her work and the author and a faculty moderator comment. Whyte is a professor at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork for many years in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition to publishing articles and book chapters on development and health, she has co-edited books on pharmaceuticals in developing countries and on disability.
September 28 Yom Kippur, no workshop
October 5 Giuseppe Testa, European Institute of Oncology, Milan
“Democratic participation and biotechnological innovation: challenges and opportunities.”
October 12 Gregory Radick, Leeds University
"Ashley Montagu's Problems with Darwinism"
October 26 Glenn Penny, University of Iowa
“Not Playing Indian: 'Practical ethnology' and the German Hobbyist Scene.”
(In conjunction with the Penn Anthropology Department)
Note: This talk will begin at 3:15 pm instead of 3:30 pm.
November 2 Damon Yarnell, University of Pennsylvania
"Outside Supply: Managerial Expertise and the Rise of “Scientific Purchasing, 1900-1930"
(This is a PACHS event)
November 9 Mary Summers, University of Pennsylvania
“‘Something for the fellow who works in the field with his coat off’: Tama Jim Wilson and the role of farmers' movements and politics in the establishment of the USDA as a ‘problem-solving’ scientific bureaucracy”
November 16 Jim Endersby, Sussex University
"Mutant socialists and Unamerican primroses: evolving racial purity in America"
November 23 Jerry Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania
"American Studies: A Case Study of Interdisciplinarity"
November 30 Lauren Minsky, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
"The Hospital as Healing Shrine: Rethinking the Social Context of Therapeutic Practice in Colonial India"
December 7 Mara Mills, University of Pennsylvania
"Hearing Aids and the History of Electronic Miniaturization"