Calendar of Events

PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE & TECHNOLOGY

Fall 2012 - Colloquia & Special 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) 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood campus

(HW) 6 September: OPENING RECEPTION

(HW) 13 September: WILLIAM J. ASTORE, Pennsylvania College of Technology
One Size Doesn't Fit All: The Perils of Developing ?Big? Software Systems for the U.S. Military [no paper]

(EB) 20 September: KEVIN SIENA, Trent University
Rotten Bodies: Plague, Putrefaction and the Poor in Seventeenth-Century England

(HW) 27 September: MARGARET GARBER, University of California, Fullerton
The Academy of Curiosi: Chemical Correspondence & Other Curiosities in the Holy Roman Empire 1650-1750 [no paper]

(EB) 4 October: JIN-KYUNG PARK, University of Toronto
Where Is the Postcolonial History of Medicine in the Japanese Empire? Social Hygiene, Human Resources, and Research on Sex and Reproduction in 1930s Korea

(HW) 11 October: NICHOLAS DEW, McGill University
Global Measures: Tropical Data and the Sun King's Science (c. 1670-c.1715) [no paper]

(EB) 18 October: ANNMARIE ADAMS, McGill University
Death at the Hospital

(EB) 24 October: **Wednesday - 3 pm**: SIMON SZRETER, University of Cambridge
Estimating the Prevalence of Venereal Diseases in Britain, c.1770-1914

(HW) 25 October: REBECCA LEMOV, Harvard University
Invisible Worlds of Data: An Experiment in Dream Collection and Information Management, 1947-1965

(EB) 1 November: MARIOLA ESPINOZA, Yale University
"He marched them up to the top of the hill/ And he marched them down again": Elevation and Yellow Fever in Colonial Caribbean Medicine

(HW) 8 November: WILLIAM RANKIN, Yale University
Radionavigation in Peace, War, and Peace: Spatial Technology and the Politics of Globalization [no paper]

(EB) 29 November: DAVID HERZBERG, University at Buffalo, SUNY
On-Ramps to the Oxy Express: Drug Wars, Medical Authority, and the Long History of Prescription Drug Abuse in America

(EB) 3 December: **Monday - 1.30 pm**: MICHAEL STOLBERG, University of Würzburg
Medical Popularization at the Bedside. How 16th-Century Physicians Explained Diseases to their Patients