SST Colloquium
Spring 2008

** NB ** This spring talks will be in Physics 131 unless otherwise noted.

January 25:
Michael Strevens, New York University
"What is Empirical Testing?"
Abstract

February 1:
Christian Fleck, University of Graz, Austria
"Austrian and German Émigré and Homeguard Social Scientists during the Nazi Period: A Prosopography."

February 8:
Susan D. Jones, University of Minnesota
"Tracing Anthrax:  History, Ecology, and Phylogenetics."

February 14, Thursday, 4:00 pm, Nolte 125: *** NOTE Different Day, Time, and Place ***
Pamela Smith, Columbia University
"Making and Knowing: Lived Experience and the Written Word in Early Modern 'Europe'."

February 15, Noon, Social Sciences 712 (Ford Room: *** NOTE Different Time, and Place ***
Pamela Smith, Columbia University
"Book Discussion: The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution."

February 22:
Mark Walker Union College
"Why Do We Care about 'Hitler's Bomb,' and should we?"

February 29:
Michael D Root University of Minnesota
"Stratifying a Population By Race"
Abstract

March 7:
Brian A. Woodcock Carleton College
"Quantum State Collapse Along a Light Cone: History and Objections"
Abstract

March 28:
Jonathan Kahn Hamline University
"Race, Medicine, and Money: Contextualizing the Emergence of 'Ethnic' Drugs"
Abstract

April 4:
There will be two talks on this date.

2:30-3:45 John Doris, Washington University
"On Reflection (...more or less)"
Abstract
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:15 Robert Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
"A Science of the Whole Environment: Wildlife Ecology"

April 18:
John Brown, University of Virginia
"Professional Imperatives in Engineering Communities: A Contest in Constructing the St. Louis Bridge, 1867 - 1874"

April 25:
Lisa Downing, The Ohio State University
"Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent property of matter"
Abstract

May 2:
Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland
"Consuming Landscapes: Parkways and Driving Cultures in the United States and Germany, 1920-1970."

May 9:
"Thinking Through Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Biology, Geography and History"
Spring Science Studies Symposium of McKnight summer fellows, University of Minnesota

"Temporal Dimensions of Reductionism in Biology"
Abstract

 Alan C. Love Department of Philosophy

"Cartographic knowledge and Emerging Dutch colonialism: the View from Population Biology"
Abstract

Arun Saldanha Department of Geography
"Towards a 21st-Century Galileo: Philosophical Reflections on the Problem of Writing the Origination of Science."
Abstract
J. B. Shank Department of History

"Getting Real about Genetics and Genomics: An Antirealist Perspective"
Abstract

C. Kenneth Waters Department of Philosophy

The Studies of Science and Technology Colloquium gratefully acknowledges the support of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences for this year's series.

 

Unless otherwise indicated, the lectures are held on Fridays at 3:30 P.M. in Room 131 of the Physics Building on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (refreshments at 3:15 P.M. in Room 216). For further information, please contact Janet McKernan (612/625-6635).