PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE & TECHNOLOGY

Spring 2012 - Colloquia & Special Events

(EB) January 30 (Monday) JEREMY GREENE, Harvard University [1:30-3 pm]

Ordering the World of Cures:  The International Politics of Drug Names [no paper]

 (HW) February 2  JAMES BONO, University of New York, Buffalo

How to Read the Book of Nature Literally: Boyle, the Bible, and the Book of Nature

 (EB) February 6 (Monday) JESSE BALLENGER, Pennsylvania State University [1:30-3 pm]

To Conquer Confusion: The Struggle for a Coherent Approach to Dementia in Modern Medicine. [no paper]

 (EB) February 9 KAREN THOMAS, The Johns Hopkins University

Population Control and Reproductive Health: Shifting Priorities for International Health, 1965-1980

 (EB)    February 13 (Monday) SALLY ROMANO, Yale University [1:30-3 pm]  [no paper]

Covering Up the Coppertone Girl: Sunscreen and the Promise of Protection in Twentieth-Century America

 (HW)    February 13 (Monday) WOUTER J. HANEGRAAFF, University of Amsterdam

Role of Gnosis in Renaissance Hermetism from Ficino to Foix de Candale

Cosponsored by the Singleton Center for Premodern Europe  [4 pm, Gilman 388]

 (HW) February 16 DAVID GARTMAN, University of South Alabama

Kahn, Corbu, and Concrete: The Vexed Relation of Art and Technology

 (EB)       February 23  JULIA CUMMISKEY, The Johns Hopkins University

“A Special Baltimore Problem": Tuberculosis Control, 1950-1980

 (HW) March 1 JEAN-OLIVIER RICHARD, The Johns Hopkins University

Lafitau and Charlevoix: Enlightenment Jesuits and Problems of American Indian Origins

 (HW) March 7 (Wednesday) MICHAEL HUNTER, University of London  [no paper]

The Decline of Magic: Challenge and Response in Early Enlightenment England  [12 noon, Gilman 300]

 (EB) March 8 LAUREN KASSELL, University of Cambridge

Casebooks in Early Modern England: Astrology, Medicine and Written Records

 (HW) March 12 (Monday) H. DARREL RUTKIN, Stanford University

The Physics and Metaphysics of Talismans (Imagines Astronomicae) in Marsilio Ficino’s De vita libri tres              

                                       Cosponsored by the Singleton Center for Premodern Europe  [4 pm, Gilman 388]

 (HW)  March 15 ADRIANNA LINK, The Johns Hopkins University

“Urgent Anthropology”: E. Richard Sorenson and the National Anthropological Film Center, 1965-1980

 (EB) March 29 MARION SCHMIDT, The Johns Hopkins University

‘Extremely Concerned and Puzzled": Hereditary Deafness Research at Clarke School for the Deaf, 1930-1983

 (HW) April 2 (Monday) TEODORO KATINIS, The Johns Hopkins University

Marsilio Ficino’s Medicine: Between Tradition and Innovation

                                    Cosponsored by the Singleton Center for Premodern Europe  [4 pm, Gilman 388]

 (HW) April 5  YIXIAN LI, The Johns Hopkins University

The Emergence of a Technostructure: Chinese Architects and Builders in Shanghai,1927-1937.

 (EB) April 12 JUSTIN RIVEST, The Johns Hopkins University

 The Trials of an Extraordinary Empiric: The Career of Jean Thibault, Astrologer Physician, 1529-1545

 (HW) ­   April 16 DIDIER KAHN, Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne / CNRS

Literature and Natural Philosophy in Montfaucon de Villars' The Comte de Gabalis**

                                    Cosponsored by the Singleton Center for Premodern Europe  [4 pm, Gilman 388]

 (HW) April 19 RICHARD NASH, The Johns Hopkins University

William Keith Brooks as a Late-Nineteenth Century Darwinian

 (EB) May 3 ELI ANDERS, The Johns Hopkins University

“A Plea for the Lancet": Bloodletting and Scientific Medicine around the Turn of the Twentieth Century