HSTM at the University of Minnesota: June 2015

June 3, 2015

This week is a second post from John Heydinger, who had previously written about Ludwik Fleck. Here, he interprets the "Anthropocene" through a lens provided by Donna Haraway. Check it out!

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog for the program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HSTM) at the University of Minnesota! This blog is meant to be a forum for any number of HSTM-related subjects. I hope this blog will be a place where current faculty and grad students can discuss weekly colloquia, where alumni and others can post about upcoming articles, books, and general updates (both personal and professional), and where general HSTM ideas, events, and discussions can be posted on a regular basis. Please submit posts or post ideas to the editor, William Vogel, at vogel322@umn.edu. Everybody is welcome.

If you have any questions about the colloquium schedule or any specific questions about the program you should contact Julia Knoll, the administrative assistant for the program, as I am merely a blog administrator/graduate student and wield no real power.

HSTM Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2017

Lectures are held on Fridays at 3:35 p.m. in 275 Nicholson Hall on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (refreshments served at 3:25 p.m.). All are welcome.

September 8

"Technology, Religion, and Postwar Debates about the Order of Creation: How the History of Science and Religion has Led Us into Error in Analyzing Technology and Religion"

Jennifer Alexander, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota

September 15

"‘He Will Be a Better Citizen as a Legitimate Addict’: The Forgotten History of Harm Reduction in America’s First Opioid Epidemic"

David Herzberg, Department of History, University at Buffalo

A Dorothy Bernstein Lecture in the History of Psychiatry

September 22

"When Children are Better Learners than Adults: Theory Formation, Causal Models, and the Evolution of Learning"

Alison Gopnik, Department of Psychology, University of California - Berkeley

September 29

"Inviting Girls Into the Lab: the Rise of Diversity Advocacy in STEM, 1950-Present"

Amy Bix, Department of History, Iowa State University

October 6

"Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravity in Postwar American Physics"

David Kaiser, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Co-sponsored with the School of Physics and Astronomy

October 13

"Structural Bias and the Commercialization of Medicine"

Rebecca Kukla, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University

October 20

"Fluidity, Elasticity, and Activity: Conceptualizing Air from Boyle to the Early Newtonians"

Victor Boantza, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota

Promotion & Tenure Seminar - Co-sponsored with the School of Physics and Astronomy

October 27

"An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation "

C. Kenneth Waters, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary

November 3

"Astrology from University Lecture to Print Culture"

Darin Hayton, Department of History, Haverford College

Co-sponsored with the Center for Early Modern History and the Center for Austrian Studies

November 10

"Absolute Space, Relative Motion, and the Method of Newtonian Physics"

Rob DiSalle, Department of Philosophy, Western University

November 17

"Unification and Heuristic Strategies in the Development of Quantum Theory"

Molly Kao, Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal

A CSE Distinguished Scientists and Engineers from Underrepresented Groups Lecture

December 1

"Active Ignorance and the Rhetoric of Biological Race Realism"

Nora Berenstain, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

December 8

"Eurasianism in Soviet Science: The Environmental Views of Aleksandr Fersman "

Andy Bruno, Department of History, Northern Illinois University

June 3, 2015

A New View, from Somewhere