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 Nick Winters, Classics, Northwestern University Title "Rival Arithmetics of Ancient Greece" Abstract The origin of European theoretical mathematics is usually placed by historians in...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Sara Rodriguez - Global Health, Northwestern University Title “Skillful attendance during labor itself”: Maternal Mortality and the State, 1750-1990" Abstract In 1987, following the...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Benjamin Lindquist - History, Northwestern University Title "The Irrational Computer: Chance, Creativity, and the History of Random Neural Nets" Abstract TBD Biography Before earning a Ph.D....
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...
