2009-2010 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 Steve Epstein (Sociology)
FALL 2009
October 5. 2009
Alice Dreger (Department of Medical Humanities, Northwestern)"Galileo's Middle Finger: Science and Identity Politics in the Internet Age"
October 19. 2009
Yarí Pérez Marín (Department of Hispanic Studies, Durham University)"New World Bodies: Anatomy and Physiology in Early Colonial Mexican Texts”
November 2, 2009
Francisco Portugal (SHC, Northwestern and Psychology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)“Psychology and Education in Brazil's First Republic, 1889-1930”
November 9, 2009
Daniel Margocsy (SHC and History, Northwestern)“The Camel's Head: Picturing Exotica in Sixteenth-Century Europe”
November 16, 2009
Jeanette Colyvas (School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern)
“Ubiquity and Legitimacy, Examining the Relationship between Diffusion and Institutionalization in the Academic Life Sciences”
WINTER 2010
January 25, 2010
Lindsay Smith (Geography + Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico)
“‘Bring Them Back Alive’: Negotiating Genetics and Identity in Post-dictatorship Argentina”
February 1, 2010
Kelly Moore (Sociology, Loyola University Chicago)
"The Nourished Neoliberal: 'Pleasured Self-Discipline', Markets, and Citizenship in the United States"
February 8, 2010
Gregg Mitman (History of Science Department, Madison)
"Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire"
February 15, 2010
Jennifer Reardon (Sociology Department, UC Santa Cruz)
"The Postgenomic Condition: Technoscience at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Imaginaries"
February 22, 2010
Karin Knorr Cetina (Anthropology, U Chicago)
"The Market as an Object of Attachment: What Type of Agent is a Financial Market?"
March 1, 2010
Kapil Raj (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
"Circulation as a Problem for the History of Science: Constructing Knowledge in the Early Modern World"
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 (Humanities Seminar Room, Kresge 2-370)
Adrián López-Denis (Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University)
"Transatlantic Medicine, Modern Slavery and the Iberian Empire in the Age of Revolution"
SPRING 2010
April 5, 2010
Antonio Barrera (History Department, Colgate)
"Empiricsm and the New Science: Indian and European Doctors in the Atlantic World (Sixteenth Century)"
April 12, 2010
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (History Department, University of Texas at Austin)
"Fighting Demons while Crossing the Oceans: The Iberian Roots of British and Dutch Cosmography"
April 22, 2010 at 2pm
Jonathan M. Metzl (The Program of Culture, Health, and Medicine, University of Michigan)
"Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease"
April 26, 2010
Michelle Molina (Religious Studies Department, Northwestern)
"Circulations: Heart and Science in the Catholic Atlantic World"
May 3, 2010
Cori Hayden (Anthropology Department, UC Berkeley)
“Generic Specificities: Pharmaceutical access and the Making of New Same Things”
May 17, 2010
Kristin Ruggiero (History Department, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
"Foreign Contagion And Honor In Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires"
May 18, 2010
Neena Schwartz (Neurobiology & Physiology, Northwestern University)
"A Lab of Her Own"