Events

Kristoffer Whitney, University of Pennsylvania
"Valuing the Oikos: Ecology, Economy, and Quantification in Delaware Bay"

Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan

      "Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things"

Ian Burney, University of Manchester
‘“Our Environment in Miniature': Dust, Detection, and the Birth of the Modern Crime Scene"

Susanne Bauer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
'"Genogeography" and the Micropolitics of Difference: On Post-Lysenko Human Genetics in the late Soviet Union'

Damon Yarnell, Drexel University
'Local Science for Global Competitiveness: Michael Porter and the Rise of "Cluster" Policy'

Neil Maher, Rutgers University, Newark
"Vietnam's Nature, Space Race Technology, and Detente"

Barry Saunders, Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Wounded Chiasms: a Philosophical History?”

Talk co-sponsored with Penn's Anthropology Department.

Ellen Stroud, Urban Environmental Policy, Bryn Mawr College.

"Haunted Basements, Toxic Fields: The Corpse in American Environmental History"

Peter Decherney, English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania

TBA

Mar 28. Matthew Jones, History, Columbia University
“Reinventing the (stepped) wheel: Ideational Property, Imitation and Nescience around Enlightenment Calculating Machines”