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 Daniel Shanahan, Northwestern University Title Charles Seeger's Tin Can: Machine Transcription and the Limits of Musical Measurement Abstract The extraction of data from musical...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speakers TBD Title Expertise, Trust and Democracy: An STS Perspective on Contemporary Politics Abstract TBD Biographies TBD
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Justin Mann, Northwestern University Title Getting Lost in the Dark: Speculations on Black Insecurity Abstract Professor Mann traces the relationship between the aesthetics of...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Christopher Kelty, University of California Los Angeles Title The Internet We Could Have Had Abstract TBD Biography Christopher M. Kelty is a professor at the University...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Tara Nummedal, Brown University Title TBD Abstract TBD Biography Tara Nummedal joined the History Department in 2002, after completing her undergraduate and graduate degrees in California....
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Laura Martin, Williams College Title Herbicides and the Politics of Plant Life Abstract The chemical 2,4-D kills broadleaved plants while leaving grasses alive. This...
4:30 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Stevie Ruiz - California State University Northridge Title Stewards of the Land: Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West Abstract The history...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Danielle Wong Title Asian/American Biomedia: Circadian Rhythms, Pores, and Other Racial Know-How Abstract In 1958, American dermatologist Aaron Lerner isolated melatonin, the pineal hormone...
