Events

Every year Science in Human Culture sponsors the Klopsteg lecture series, bringing 10 to 15 scholars to campus whose research deepens public understanding of science and generates robust exchanges across disciplinary and departmental lines. SHC also coordinates a doctoral colloquium that meets three times each quarter, allowing its graduate affiliates a chance to share work and ideas with their peers and faculty. In 2012 and 2015, SHC sponsored ground-breaking conferences for scholars working on science studies in Midwestern universities and colleges.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker
Shireen Hamza - History, Northwestern University
Title
"Down by the Water: Medicine and Religion in Waterside Spaces"
Abstract
Medieval stepwells and bathhouses, stunning and...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker
Dagmar Schäfer - History, Max Planck Institute
Title
Chinese Technology
Abstract
TBD
Biography
Honorary Professor in History of Technology at Technische Universität Berlin, and Associate Professor...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker
Taylor Moore - History, University of California Santa Barbara
Title
"Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Egypt"
Abstract
This talk traces the...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker
James E. Dobson - English, Dartmouth University
Title
"Neural Network Computing Before GPU's"
Abstract
High-speed, high-memory, multicore graphics processing units such as those sold...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker
Clare Kim - History and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Title
"Datafied Subjects: Race, Computation, and Japanese American Incarceration"
Abstract
Following the...