2003-2004 Klopsteg Lecture Series
October 10
Simon Werrett, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle
"Fireworks and Natural Philosophy"
October 24
Adrian Johns, Department of History, University of Chicago
"Death of a pirate: economic liberalism, offshore radio, and popular culture in '60s Britain"
November 7
Guy Ortolano, Department of History, Northwestern University
"Kick the Two Cultures Habit! A 5-Step Program"
December 5
“Interior temptation”: Early modern imagination
Organized by Claudia Swan, Art History, Northwestern University, and Fernando Vidal, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin.
On December 5th and 6th, the SHC program is supporting a special international workshop co-organized by Northwestern’s Program in the Study of the Imagination and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin. This workshop will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss various formulations and practices of the imagination, its powers, its dangers and its benefits in early modern Europe, where theories of its operations explained mental function and malfunction, dreams, artistry, the effects of music, witchcraft, various maladies, and religious contemplation.
January 16
Greg Mitman, Department of Medical History and Bioethics
"Campaigning for Health: Visual Languages of Disease and Race in America, 1963-1965"
January 30
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor and Chair, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
"Can A Eugenic Program be Morally Right and Politically Correct? Mandated Genetic Screening on the Island of Cyprus"
February 12
Pietro Corsi, University of Paris
"After the Revolution: The Politics of Words, 1795-1802"
February 20
Tom Gieryn, Rudy Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of History & Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
"City as Truth-Spot: Laboratory and Field-sites in Urban Studies"
February 27
Tom Gunning, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Phantasmagoria: Making Illusions Between Enlightenment and Cinema"
March 12
Helene Mialet, Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
"Performing Thought Experiments"
April 2
Mitchell Ash, Department of History, University of Vienna
"Scientific Changes in Times of Political Upheaval: Germany 1933, 1945, 1990"
April 16
Norton Wise, Department of History, University of California - Los Angeles
April 30
Adele Clarke, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California - San Francisco
"From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization: American (Bio)medical Formations c1890-2000"
May 14
Steven Epstein, Department of Sociology and Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego
"One Size Does Not Fit All': Standardization, Identity Politics, and the Management of Difference in U.S. Biomedical Research"
May 28
Mark Brown, Department of Government, California State University--Sacramento
"Citizen Panels and the Co-Production of Scientific and Political Representation"