Colloquia
The 2012-2013 History of Science Colloquia
Hosted by Prof. Anne Harrington
All talks are held at 4:00 pm in Science Center 469, unless otherwise noted.
For further information please call 617-495-9967.
This series is supported in part by the Mark M. Horblit Fund.
Month |
Date |
Details |
|---|---|---|
| September |
25 |
Susan M. Reverby, History of Science & Women's & Gender Studies, Wellesley College "Escaping Melodrama: The US STD Inoculation Studies in Guatemala and the Difficulties for an Historian" |
| October | 16 |
James Delbourgo, History of Science, Rutgers University, |
| February | 19 |
Sigrid Weigel, Institute of Literature, Technical University Berlin, " The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Time of Image: Walter Benjamin’s image based epistemology and its preconditions in visual arts and media history." |
| April | 17 |
Hugh Raffles, Department of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, "Rocks, Stones, & Other Vital Things" |
| April | 30 |
Jan Golinski, Department of History, University of New Hampshire, "Humprey Davy's Experiments in Selfhood." |
