Colloquia

Mary E. Fissell, Department of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University

“Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Long Career of Aristotle’s Masterpiece”

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Jacqueline Goss, Department of Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College

“The Canny Valley: Animation As Subjective Document” Graduate Student Choice colloquium.

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John Carson, Department of History, Program of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Michigan

“What Makes an ‘Unsound Mind’? Medicine, Law, and Competency in the Nineteenth-Century Courtroom” Co-sponsored with the STS Circle, Harvard University.  NOTE: Monday evening colloquium

Rebecca Herzig, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Bates College

“The Evolution of Choice: Denudation and the Descent of Man”

Lisa Gitelman, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

“Xerographers of the Mind: Daniel Ellsberg and the Lost Idea of the Photocopy”

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Dorinda Outram, Department of History, University of Rochester

“The Transparent Mask: Enlightenment Debates on Truth & Falsehood ”

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Mary Jo Nye, Departments of Humanities and History, Oregon State University

“Two Scientists at the Social Turn: Desmond Bernal and Michael Polanyi”