2005-2006 Klopsteg Lecture Series
September 30
Kenneth Albala
"The Use and Abuse of Chocolate in 17th Century Medical Theory"
October 28
Bruno Latour
"Making Things Public"
November 18
Joel Snyder
"The Look of Silence: Visualizing Echoes"
January 20
Sokhieng Au
"Making the Modern Bubonic Plague in Colonial Cambodia"
February 10
Patrick Singy
"The Case of 'Sade': Constructing the Sadistic Individual in the Nineteenth Century"
February 24
Jan Golinski
"Scientific Conversations in the Enlightenment Public Sphere"
March 3
Jamie Cohen-Cole
"The Science and Politics of Autonomous Thought in Cold War America"
April 21
Elizabeth Williams
April 28
Jessica Riskin, Department of History, Stanford University
"Mechanical Christs, Hydraulic Brutes and the Invention of Consciousness."
May 5
Judith Schloegel, Argonne National Laboratory
"Disciplinary Identity and the Origins of Environmental Research at Argonne National Laboratory, 1955-1975"
May 12
Jan Goldstein, Department of History, University of Chicago
"Neutralizing Freud: Some Thoughts on the Implications of the Lycee Philosophy Class for the Reception of Psychoanalysis in France"
May 26
Elizabeth Williams, Department of History, Oklahoma State University
"Did the Enlightenment Recognize Eating Disorders? Digestion and Neurosis in Vitalist Medicine of the Late Eighteenth Century"