Events

Events



HSS Workshop: Paul Teller

Sep 14, 2012 at

Paul Teller, University of California-Davis

"What Is It to Give an Ontology?"

Abstract: Science never gives us theories that are both completely precise and completely accurate. …



HSS Workshop: Meggie Crnic

Apr 29, 2012 at

Meggie Crnic, University of Pennsylvania

Building the Beach: How American Physicians, Reformers, and Immigrant Families Constructed the Seashore, 1870-1930



HSS Workshop: Ulf Schmidt & Jonathan Moreno

Apr 23, 2012 at

Ulf Schmidt, University of Kent
Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

"From Nerve Gas to Neurons: Military Medical Research in the Cold War and the War on Terror"     …



HSS Workshop: Jonathan Metzl

Apr 16, 2012 at

Jonathan Metzl, Vanderbilt University

"Fallen doctors: An Ethnography of Medical Transgression"



HSS Workshop: Robert Friedel

Apr 13, 2012 at

Robert Friedel, University of Maryland

"American Bottles: the Road to No Return"



HSS Workshop: Thomas Schlich

Apr 9, 2012 at

Thomas Schlich, McGill University

"A Bizarre Ritual: The Controversies about Surgical Gloves in 1890s Germany"



HSS Workshop: Wendy Parker

Mar 30, 2012 at

Wendy Parker, Ohio University

Beyond Error Bars: Climate Modeling, Uncertainty and Epistemic Responsibility



HSS Workshop: Darin Hayton

Mar 19, 2012 at

Darin Hayton, Haverford College

"Empiricism, Prediction, and Instruments: The Creation of Expertise in 14th-Century Constantinople"



HSS Workshop: Claudia Prinz

Mar 12, 2012 at

Claudia Prinz, Humboldt University, Berlin

"Experts, Mothers, Donors and the Politics of Child Survival in Bangladesh"



HSS Workshop: Catherine Jackson

Feb 27, 2012 at

Catherine Jackson, Chemical Heritage Foundation and University College, London

"Chemists' Histories: the Power and Meaning of Synthesis"