PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

PROGRAM IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Program Seminar Spring 2002

Schedule of Sessions


04 Feb - Organizational Meeting
 

11 Feb - Katharine M. Anderson
               Topic: State, Science, and Empire
              Commentator: Graham Burnett

                                                             Tuesday, 12 February, 4:30 p.m. - Colloquium: Steven Feierman

18 Feb - Rebecca Press-Schwartz
             Topic: Institutional Anti-Semitisms in the Army and its Relation to the Manhattan Project
              Commentator: Matthew Wisnioski

                                                              Saturday, 23 February - HOS Workshop II - Media of Knowledge

25 Feb - Discussion of "Media and Knowledge" Workshop

04 Mar - Joseph November & Matthew Wisnioski
              Topic: Alhazen's Optics
               Commentator: James Byrne

11 Mar -  Graham Burnett
                Topic: "Savage Selection"
                Commentator: James Strick

                                                                                        SPRING RECESS (March 16-24)

25 Mar -  James Turner
               Topic: The Wilderness System in the 1960s
                Commentator: Emily Brock

Saturday, 30 March, U. Penn/PET Colloquium @ Princeton - Pamela O. Long

01 Apr- James Dimoia
             Topic: British Missionaries
               Commentator: Kathernine Nisbett

08 Apr - Gabor Katona
              Topic: Francis Bacon
               Commentator: Anthony Grafton

                                                      Friday, 12 April - HOS Workshop III - The Scientific Laity

15 Apr - Discussion of "The Scientific Laity" Workshop/John Efron at 4:30 p.m.

22 Apr - Nicholas Popper
               Topic: The Slow Death of the Burning Salamander
               Commentator: Robert Goulding

29 Apr - Robert Goulding
               Topic: The Causes of Color
               Commentator: Jane Murphy
 
 

Deadline for Presenters: Please give Vicky a copy of your paper (electronically and a hardcopy) one-week prior to the date of your presentation.