Colloquia

Introducing the

2009-2010 Harvard/MIT Subway Series
in the History of Science

This fall semester's colloquium series, jointly hosted by MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society and Harvard's Department of History of Science, brings together themes and discussions about the fuzzy and complex boundary between humans and machines. Speakers from departments across the US and the UK present on topics from the French Industrial Revolution, surgical practices in modern medicine, and the contemporary global credit crisis, to Jules Verne's literary imagination, and post-Cartesian
interpretations of the machine-man.

All talks are held at 4:00 pm.
Harvard talks (Tuesdays) in Science Center 469.
MIT talks (Mondays) in Building E51-095.

For further information please call 617-495-3741.

Month
Date
 Details
October
HARVARD
20

John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania

“Love and Engines: The Saint-Simonians’ Conversation Technologies”
October
MIT
26

Jessica Riskin, Stanford Univeristy

“The Adventures of Mr. Machine, with Morals”

November
HARVARD

3

Hélène Mialet, University of California, Berkeley (Visiting)

“What is the Thinker doing? The Ethnographic Study of a Statue”

November
MIT
23

Rachel Prentice, Cornell University

“Embodying Control in the Operating Room”

November
MIT

30

Donald Mackenzie, University of Edinburgh

“The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge”
December
HARVARD
8

Rosalind Williams, MIT

“Secondary Worlds of Jules Verne”
February
MIT
22
 Tom Gunning , University of Chicago

"The "Illusion" of Motion: The Suppression of the Moving Image through the Explanation of the Apparatus"
March
MIT
8
 Zoe Beloff , Filmmaker & Digital Installation Artist

"Charming Augustine and the Dramatization of Mental Disturbance"
March
HARVARD
30
 Bernhard Dotzler, University of Regensburg

"Critical Judgement in the Age of Artificial Eyes"
April
MIT
5
 Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego

"Critical Art Practice and Biomedical Citizenship"
April
HARVARD
13
 Stefan Andriopoulos, Columbia University

"Kant's Magic Lantern: Historical Epistemology and Media Archaeology"

 

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