Princeton University/ Program in History of Science
Program Seminar - Spring 2001
Mondays 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., 230 Dickinson Hall
Schedule of Meetings

February 5 Organizational Meeting

February 9 "Science and Security before the atomic bomb: The loyalty case of Harold U.
Sverdup" – Noami Oreskes – Lecture to Geosciences Department – Guyot Hall, Room 220

February 10 Model Systems, Cases and Exemplary Narratives –
    VI. Field Sciences and E conomics

February 12 Workshop post-mortem

February 19 Sixteenth-Century Materia Medica - Daniela Bleichmar
    Commentary: Jane Murphy

February 26 Microcosms and Model Systems in Biology- Emily Brock
    Commentary: Manfred Laubichler

March 3 Upenn-Princeton Joint Colloquium,How Might Biology Matter? Explorations for a Materialist History of Disease
        - Harry Marks,10:00 a.m., at Penn

March 5 Sexual Selection – Tania Munz
    Commentary: Gerry Geison

March 12 Debates over Genetically Altered Animals – Joe Conley
    Commentary: Jay Turner

March 19 Spring Recess

March 26 Model Systems, Cases and Exemplary Narratives – John Forrester,
    Cambridge University, short-term Humanities Fellow

March 31 Model Systems, Cases and Exemplary Narratives –
    VII. Law

April 2 Chess and Artificial Intelligence – Matt Wisnioski
    Commentary: Ole Molvig

April 5-6 Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

April 9 Information Theory and Cybernetics – Joe November
    Commentary: Mike Mahoney

April 16 Psychological Twin Research in Nazi Germany and Thereafter:Constructed Continuities – Mitchell Ash

April 17 Scientific Change in Germany 1933, 1945, 1989 – Mitchell Ash
Modern Europe Colloquium – 210 Dickinson Hall

April 23 Models of Interdisciplinarity – Mike Mahoney and Manfred Laubichler
    Commentary: Jamie Cohen-Cole

April 30 A Chapter of Ruth Sager’s Life and Science - Gail Schmitt
    Commentary: Angela Creager or Liz Lunbeck

May 7 Measurements of the Cubit in the 17th c. – Rebecca Press Schwartz
    Commentary: Eric Ash

Program Seminar is meeting in Dickinson 230.
Deadline for Presenters: Please give Audrey a copy of your paper by Monday noon, one week before your presentation date.