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Program Seminar

Spring 2009

The Program Seminar serves to foster scholarly community among the faculty, students, and visiting fellows of the Program: we meet weekly to think and talk together, and this is a considerable pleasure (not to mention intellectually invigorating). Topics of the gathering vary. Often we discuss a pre-circulated work in progress, but other conversations are welcome • recent literature, events and trends in the profession, issues of common concern in the Program. The goal is to bridge the divisions and to counteract the centrifugal forces that tend to affect small programs with broad scope.

HOS Program Seminar - Fall 2009
Mondays 3:00PM - 4:30PM
230 Dickinson Hall
 
09-28-2009
Presenter: Emily Thompson
“Noise and Culture, 1900-1933”
 
10-05-2009
"Richard Arman Gregory and the boundaries of science in Nature."
Presenter: Melinda Baldwin
 
Comment: Henry Cowles
 
10-12-2009
Presenter: Keynyn Brysse
“Carving Nature at Its Joints: The New Understanding of the Burgess Shale”
 
Comment: Nathan Ha
 
10-19-2009
Presenter: Katja Gunther
A Federation of Nerves. Metaphors of the Nervous System in Nineteenth-Century German Neuroscience.”
 
Comment: Ksenia Tatarchenko
 
10-26-2009
Presenter: Catherine Abou-Nemeh
"Hartsoeker's microscope: 'the construction and admirable oeconomie of living creatures'."
 
Comment: William Deringer
 
 
**Fall break October 31, 2009 – November 8, 2009**
 
 
11-09-2009
Presenter: William Deringer
"The Politics of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Expertise, and Economic Crisis in Britain, 1650-1800."
 
Presenter: Margaret Schotte
“Mastering the Sea: Navigational Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, A Social History”
 
Comment: Catherine Abou-Nemeh
 
11-16-2009
Presenter: Christopher McDonald
"From Computer Utility to Time-Sharing: The Technology and Politics of Computing in the 1960s."
 
Comment: Angela Creager
 
11-23-2009
Presenter: Carrie Eisert
Comment: Melinda Baldwin
 
11-30-2009
Presenter: James Byrne
Comment: Iain Watts
 
12-07-2009
Presenter: Nathan Ha
Comment: Keynyn Brysse
 
12-14-2009
Presenter: Hannah Louise Clark
Civilisation and Syphilisation: The 'French Disease' and 'Arab Syphilis' in Protectorate Morocco, 1916-1919”
 
Comment: Daniel Trambaiolo