2007-2008 Klopsteg Lecture Series
All lectures are open to the public, thanks to the generosity of the Klopsteg fund, and (unless indicated otherwise below) are held in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall Room 201) on Mondays from 4:00-5:30pm.
Program Director: Professor Ken Alder (History)
October 5
Elizabeth Watkins, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine
The Estrogen Elixir: Women and Science in the Making and Unmaking of Hormone Replacement Therapy
October 26
Laura Stark, Program in Science in Human Culture and Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Talking Ethics inside the Iron Cage: How Human Subjects Reviewers are Made Invisible
November 9
Alistair Sponsel, Program in the History of Science, Princeton University
Darwin’s First Theory: The Mystery of Coral Reefs
November 16
Jessica Wang, Department of History, University of British Columbia
Social Knowledge and the American State: From the Social Survey to the New Deal
January 11
Tony Hazard, Program in Science in Human Culture and Department of History, Northwestern University
February 1
John P. Jackson, Jr., Department of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder
"The Boundary Work of the 'Blank Slate': Creating the Disciplines of Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Anthropology"
February 15
Bruce Baum, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
"The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Study in the Politics of 'Race' Science"
February 29
Patrick Sharp, Department of Liberal Studies, California State University at Los Angeles
"Darwin’s Soldiers: Gender, Technology, and Warfare in American Culture"
May 2
Theodore M. Porter, Department of History, UCLA
"The Phantom of Blending Inheritance: Statistics and the Origins of Genetics"
May 29-30