JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY                                                                             
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE & TECHNOLOGY
FALL 2009 COLLOQUIA

Unless otherwise ~noted~ meetings will be held on Thursdays at 3 p.m. at either:
(EB) Institute of the History of Medicine, 3rd Floor, Welch Library, 1900 E. Monument St.,
East Baltimore campus
(HW) Dept. of the History of Science & Technology, 3505 North Charles Street,
Homewood campus

Colloquia are conducted on the basis of pre-circulated papers, unless indicated [no paper].

[HW] September 17 MICHAEL H. SHANK, University of Wisconsin
Politics and Astrology in the Background of the Galileo Affair [No paper]

[EB] September 24 DAN O'CONNOR, Johns Hopkins University         
A Record of Historical Fact: Transsexuality, Retrospective Diagnosis, and the Ethics of History; or, Joking in the Archive with Carolyn Steedman

[HW] October 1 ALAN ROCKE, Case Western Reserve University
Imagining a Molecular World: Chemistry, Distant Interference, and the Scientific Imagination

[EB] October 8 BRUNO STRASSER, Yale University                 
Put a Tiger in your Test Tube: Organisms, Molecules, and the Comparative Perspective

[HW] October 15 TAKASHI NISHIYAMA, SUNY-Brockport
Kamikaze Technology and its Aftermath: Mobilizing Engineers for War and Peace in Japan, 1932-64 [No paper]

[EB] October 22 HUGH SHAPIRO, University of Nevada, Reno   
The Birth of Nervousness: Neurasthenia in Modern China

[HW] October 29 PATRICK J. BONER, Johns Hopkins University
Johannes Kepler’s Living Cosmology

[EB] November 5 ALEXANDRA MINNA STERN, University of Michigan  
Genetics, Disability, and Identity: The Medical and Social Dynamics of Labeling Disease and Difference, 1940-2000

[HW] November 12 SARA PRITCHARD, Cornell University
Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône [No paper]

[EB] December 3 DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI, Indiana University
Vivisection in 17th-Century Anatomy