Calendar of Events Unless otherwise noted, meetings will be held on Thursdays at 3:00 p.m. at either: (EB) Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Library, East Baltimore campus, or
(HW) 3505 North Charles St., Homewood campus.
NOTE: Seminars are conducted on the basis of pre-circulated papers. For copies of papers or for more information please contact:
Ms. Coraleeze Thompson coraleez@jhmi.edu for EB
Mrs. Danielle Stout danielle@jhu.edu for HW (EB) February 7
Barbara Chubak, Johns Hopkins University
Unmade Men: Impotence in Eighteenth-Century England (HW) February 14
Peter Shulman, Johns Hopkins University
The Berth of Empire: News, Engineering, and the Geopolitics of Steam Power, 1840-1860 (EB) February 21
Jacalyn Duffin, Queen's University at Kingston
Diagnosing Medical Miracles: Physicians and Saint-Making in the Vatican
**NOGUCHI LECTURE -- Hurd Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 4:30 p.m.** (HW) February 28
TBA (EB) March 6
Julie Livingston, Rutgers University
Regarding the Pain of Africans: Making Historical Sense of Scenes in a Contemporary
African Oncology Ward (HW) March 13
Maria Portuondo, University of Florida
The Ephemeral Temple of Solomon: An Astronomical Observatory for El Escorial (no paper) (EB) March 27
Bruce T. Moran, University of Nevada, Reno
Alchemy in the Margins: Private Practices and Alchemical Agendas in the Age of Reason -- The Case of Camillo Baldi (1547-1634) (HW) April 3
Michael Neufeld, National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.
‘Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron’: East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s (EB) April 17
Ami Karlage, Johns Hopkins University
Investigating the Criminal Chromosome: Narratives of the XYY Controversy (HW) April 24
Thomas Berez, Johns Hopkins University
‘A foreign element in the Max Planck Society’: Konrad Beyerle's Institute for Instrumentation and the Dynamics of Post-War German science, 1946-1957 (HW) May 1
Kaori Iida, Johns Hopkins University
The Lysenko Controversy in Postwar Japan: Geneticists between Science and Politics | 
