Events
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Upcoming Events
September 15, 2010
William Bartram: The Search for Nature’s Design
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Bartram's Garden, and the Library Company of Philadelphia
September 19, 2010
Symposium: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Center for American Art
September 28, 2010
Thomas Broman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Semblance of Transparency: Expertise as Ideology and Practice in Science Studies
Program in History of Science, Princeton University
September 28, 2010
John Stewart, University of Oklahoma and CHF Allington Fellow
Chemical Affinity in Eighteenth-Century British Mineralogy
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lunch Talk
October 8, 2010
Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine
Department of History and Program on the History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
October 9, 2010
Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine
Department of History and Program on the History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
October 12, 2010
James Rodger Fleming, Colby College
Fixing the Sky: Historical Perspectives on Weather and Climate Control
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lunch Talk
October 13, 2010
Susan Strasser, University of Delaware
Herbal Medicine and Herbal Commerce in a Developing Consumer Culture
Program in History of Science, Princeton University
October 18, 2010
John Harley Warner, Yale University, and James M. Edmonson, Dittrick Medical History Center
“Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930”
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Section on Medical History
October 19, 2010
Rebecca Miller, Harvard Graduate School of Education & PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
Crafting the Two Cultures: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America, 1910–1970
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lunch Talk
October 22, 2010
Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania
Is Chess the Drosophila of AI? A Social History of an Algorithm
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
October 27, 2010
Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Great Animals
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
October 29, 2010
Stewart B. Nelson
Sabotage in the Arctic: Fate of the Submarine “Nautilus”
American Philosophical Society
November 2, 2010
William Goodwin, Rowan University
Resolving a Controversy: The Nonclassical Ion Debate
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lunch Talk
November 10, 2010
Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
Moving Images and Talking Statues: Definitions of Medieval Automata
Program in History of Science, Princeton University
November 11, 2010
Bess Williamson, University of Delaware
Repair Shop for Heroes: Technology in, and as, Rehabilitation in Post World War II America
Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, Hagley Museum and Library
November 19, 2010
Maria M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University
The Study of Nature and the Royal Library of San Lorenzo of the Escorial
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
December 1, 2010
John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania
The Time of the Fetish: Comte’s Positivism as Temporal Coordination
Program in History of Science, Princeton University
December 15, 2010
Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics; University of Amsterdam; Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton
‘On a Mission’ with Mutable Mobiles: Planning the Post-Colonial Economy
Program in History of Science, Princeton University
December 16, 2010
Hyungsub Choi, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Transistor States: Semiconductor Industry and the Government in the U.S. and Japan
Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, Hagley Museum and Library
April 21, 2011
Benjamin Gross, Princeton University
An Innovation Ignored? RCA and the Commercialization of the LCD
Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, Hagley Museum and Library
Upcoming
PACHS Events
October 12, 2010
James Rodger Fleming, Colby College
Fixing the Sky: Historical Perspectives on Weather and Climate Control
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lunch Talk
October 22, 2010
Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania
Is Chess the Drosophila of AI? A Social History of an Algorithm
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
November 19, 2010
Maria M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University
The Study of Nature and the Royal Library of San Lorenzo of the Escorial
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
Past PACHS Events
April 16, 2010
Carin Berkowitz, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Rhetoric, Reform, and Revolution: Making “British Medicine” in Early Nineteenth-Century London
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
March 19, 2010
Erika Lorraine Milam, University of Maryland
From Fish to Man: Negotiating Human Nature with MACOS
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
March 2, 2010
Ann Norton Greene, University of Pennsylvania
Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science and The Library Company of Philadelphia
February 12, 2010
Terry M. Christensen, PACHS Visiting Fellow
Twin Sons of Different Mothers: John Wheeler, Edward Teller, and the Cold War Quest for Peace through Military Hegemony, 1948–1983*
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
December 2, 2009
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University & Hagley Museum and Library
Histories and Historical Ethnographies of Technical Practice: Creating Jet Propulsion in the US and France
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
November 2, 2009
Damon Yarnell, University of Pennsylvania and PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Outside Supply: Managerial Expertise and the Rise of Scientific Purchasing, 1900-1930
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 23, 2009
Kim Tolley, Notre Dame de Namur University
Mathematics and the Science Education of American Girls, 1781-1914
Friends of the American Philosophical Society, History of Education Society, and Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 2, 2009
Darin Hayton, Haverford College
Astrology as Political Ideology in the Holy Roman Empire During the Era of Emperor Maximilian I
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
September 23, 2009
Fellows Reception
Chemical Heritage Foundation and Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
June 19, 2009
Symposium: The Legacy of Galileo
The Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
June 18, 2009
Panel Discussion: “What Would Galileo Think?”
The Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
May 27, 2009
Spencer R. Weart, Center for History of Physics
The Discovery of Global Warming
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
May 5, 2009
Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Galileo and the Church: Old Myths, Historical Realities, and Modern Relevance
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science and The Franklin Institute
April 21, 2009
Eric Hintz, University of Pennsylvania, and PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
The Professional Lives of American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950
Chemical Heritage Foundation and Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
April 17, 2009
Theodore Varno, University of California, Berkeley, and PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
‘An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale’: Charles Darwin on Domesticated Nature, Inbreeding, and the Inevitable Unfolding of Human History
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
March 20, 2009
Scott G. Knowles, Drexel University
Experts in Disaster: Confronting the Fire Problem in Modern American Cities
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
February 27, 2009
Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
Necromancy, Celestial Divination, and the Introduction of Arabic Science into England, c. 1080-1180
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
January 23, 2009
Sharon Kingsland, Johns Hopkins University
Caltech’s Atomic-Age Greenhouse: Exploring the Laboratory Side of the Lab-Field Borderland
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
December 12, 2008
John Tresch, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Auguste Comte in Paradise: The Ecole Polytechnique, Temporal Series, and the Birth of Sociology
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 28, 2008
Sarah Bridger, Columbia University
PACHS 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lecture
October 25, 2008
On the Nature of Things: Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Penn's Department of History & Sociology of Science, Chemical Heritage Foundation, and Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 24, 2008
William Noel, The Walters Art Museum
Archimedes in Bits: The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Chemical Heritage Foundation, and University of Pennsylvania Libraries
October 17, 2008
Paul Pasles, Villanova University
Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey
Friends of the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 7, 2008
Nicholas Spicher, Johns Hopkins University
PACHS 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
The Method of Mirania: Teaching Science at the College of Philadelphia
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lecture
October 3, 2008
Sharrona Pearl, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Diagnostic Physiognomy: From Phrenology to Fingerprints
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
September 25, 2008
Judith Walzer Leavitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Make Room for Daddy: Men and Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century America
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
September 18, 2008
Terry Christensen, Oregon State University
Miranda Paton, Cornell University
Brown Bag Lunch with Presentations by PACHS Dissertation Research Fellows
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
September 12, 2008
Michael Gordin, Princeton University
The Origins of Nuclear Forensics: Making VERMONT and the U.S. Detection of the First Soviet Atomic Test
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
May 24, 2008
“Arctic Exploration in Motion”: A Film Festival Featuring Historic Arctic Film Footage
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society and The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum of Bowdoin College
May 22, 2008
North by Degree: An International Conference on Arctic Exploration
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society and The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum of Bowdoin College
May 21, 2008
North by Degree: An International Conference on Arctic Exploration
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society and The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum of Bowdoin College
May 9, 2008
Anke Timmermann, Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Philosophers’ Poem: Alchemical Recipes, 1500-1700
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
April 18, 2008
Amy Slaton, Drexel University
Race and the Construction of Scientific Aptitude in the ‘Post-Civil-Rights’ U.S.
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
March 28, 2008
Dominique A. Tobbell, Chemical Heritage Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania
Allied Against Reform: Pharmaceutical Industry-Physician Relations in the United States, 1945-1970
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
February 22, 2008
Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware
How Does a Risk Society Evolve? Controlling Fire in Early America
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
May 10, 2007
Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, American Philosophical Society, Chemical Heritage Foundation, The Academy of Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University
