Calendar of Events

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE & TECHNOLOGY
Spring 2010 COLLOQUIA

Unless otherwise *noted* meetings will be held on Thursdays at 3 p.m. at either:
(EB) Institute of the History of Medicine, 3rd Floor, Welch Library, 1900 E. Monument St.
East Baltimore campus
(HW) Dept. of the History of Science & Technology, 3505 North Charles Street,
Homewood campus
Colloquia are conducted on the basis of pre-circulated papers, unless indicated [no paper].

(HW) January 28 PEDER ANKER, New York University
Spaceship Earth: A History of Ecological Designs [no paper]

(EB) February 4 ALISON BASHFORD, University of Sydney
Cosmopolitanism and International Eugenics in the Mid-Twentieth Century

(HW) February 11  ALLISON KAVEY,  John Jay College, City University of New York
“Power on all, even on God himself”: Divine Intention and Magical Potential in Agrippa von Nettesheim's De occulta philosophia libri tres

(EB) February 18 GABRIELA SOTO LAVEAGA, University of California Santa Barbara
Sanitizing Revolt: Physician Strikes, Public Health and the Mexican Secret Service, 1964-1965

(HW) February 25 NANCY ANDERSON, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
LIVE! Cells on TV: Biological Life, Electronic Liveness and the Short Life of the 1950s Television-Microscope  [no paper]

(EB) March 4 BENJAMIN HARRIS, University of New Hampshire
Mind-Body Medicine Before Freud: John G. Gehring, the "Wizard of the Androscoggin"?

(HW) March 11 DARYN LEHOUX, Queen’s University
Hippocratics, Presocratics, and the Question of Naturalism

(EB) March 25 SETH LEJACQ, Johns Hopkins University    
“Butcher-like and hatefull”: Domestic Medicine and Resistance to Surgery in Early-Modern England

(HW) April 1 ROBERT WESTMAN, University of California San Diego
Copernicus and the Astrologers of Cracow and Bologna [no paper]

(EB) April 8 JASON SZABO, McGill University
Pharmaceutical Innovation, Patient Experience and the Politics of AIDS

(HW) April 15 SIMON THODE, Johns Hopkins University
Science at Sea: The Carnegie Institution of Washington's Magnetic Survey in the Pacific, 1905-1908

(EB) April 22 COLIN JONES, University of London
The Physiology, Physiognomy and Politics of Smiling and Laughing in 18th Century France