2008-2009 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 Francesca Bordogna | Program of Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame
October 17
Peter Benson, Assistant Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis“The Pharmaceuticalization of Tobacco: Philip Morris, Ethical Variability, and Health Cigarette Myths”
November 14
Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland and Ellis Professor, Northwestern University Law School, Professor, African-American Studies and Sociology, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University"Race and the New Biocitizen"
November 21
Tony Hazard, Postdoctoral Fellow, Science in Human Culture, Department of History, Northwestern University"A Racialized Deconstruction? Ashley Montagu and the 1950 Unesco Statement on Race"
January 16
Lindsay Smith, Northwestern University"'Subversive Genes': Reconstituting Identity in Post-Dictatorial Argentina"
February 13
Jordi Cat, Indiana University Bloomington"Maxwell's family lines, land, colors and toys: construction, convention, and multidisciplinarity"
February 20
Ian Whitmarsh, UCSF"Vexed Biomedicine: Hyperdiagnostics of Race and Disease in the Caribbean"
April 17
Pap Ndiaye, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris“The French social sciences and the meaning of race”
April 24
Gianna Pomata, Johns Hopkins University“A Word of the Empirics: the ancient concept of observation and its recovery in early modern medicine”
May 8
Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania“On the Disciplinary Identity of Psychology: 1732-1933”
May 15
Lorraine Daston, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science“The Passions of the Unnatural”