Colloquia

The 2011-2012 History of Science Colloquia

Hosted by Prof. Jeremy Greene

All talks are held at 4:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.
Harvard talks in Science Center 469.

For further information please call 617-495-3741.

This series is supported in part by the Mark M. Horblit Fund.

Month	Date	Details
September	6	Michele Lamont, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, "Elements for a Comparative Sociology of Knowledge Evaluation Practices"
September	20	Heidi Voskuhl, History of Science, Harvard University, "Engineering as Institution: Technology, Technocracy, and Culture before World War II"
October	18	Ian Burney, Life Sciences, University of Manchester, "Our Environment in Miniature: Dust and the Early 20th-century Forensic Imagination"
November	15	Markus Krajewski, Media Studies, Bauhaus University, "Precisely! On Exactitude as a Scholarly and Scientific Ideal"
January	31	Bruno Strasser, University of Geneva, " Data Deluge: Collecting Experiments in the Digital Age" CANCELLED - Alternate speaker TBA.
February	28	Michelle Murphy, Department of History, University of Toronto, "Time in the Data of Cholera"
March	20	Donald Mackenzie, Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh, "Automated Trading"
April	3	Gregg Mitman, History of Science, University of Wisconsin, "A Journey without Maps: Film, Expeditionary Science, and the Growth of Development"

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