Events

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Upcoming Events

March 18, 2010

Eisso Atzema, University of Maine

Beyond the Compass: On the Mechanical Construction of the Conic Sections

March 19, 2010

Erika Lorraine Milam, University of Maryland

From Fish to Man: Negotiating Human Nature with MACOS

March 22, 2010

W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia

Nature, Business, and Personality:  Explaining Nikola Tesla’s Efforts to Broadcast Power Around the World, 1890-1905

March 23, 2010

Karen Snetselaar, St. Joseph's University

Charles Darwin the Experimental Biologist

March 24, 2010

Susan Brandt, Temple University

Medical Education or Spectacle?  Dissecting the Body Politics of Jan Van Rymsdyk’s Anatomical Drawings

March 25, 2010

Gerald Kutcher, The State University of New York at Binghamton

Fast Neutrons for Cancer Therapy:  A Case Study of Failure

March 29, 2010

Gwen Ottinger, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Black Boxes and Clear Buckets:  Environmental Justice and the Politics of Scientific Instruments

March 30, 2010

Barbara Traister, CHF Allington Fellow, Lehigh University

Alchemy for Everyman:  Practical Advice on Finding the Philosopher’s Stone

March 31, 2010

Jessica Martucci, Doctoral Student, Departmentof History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

A Woman Should Know:  The Role of Nurses in the History of Breastfeeding, 1950-1978

April 5, 2010

Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania

Ideas and Institutions:  Some Thoughts on Women’s Role in the Emergence of Modern Science

April 7, 2010

History of Women’s Health Conference 2010

April 12, 2010

Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Hairy People, Peking Man, Bigfoot, and the Case for a Human Identify in Twentieth-Century China

April 13, 2010

How the Calorie Leapt from Chemistry Lab Obscurity to Diet-Culture Eminence

April 14, 2010

Susan Lindee, Professor and Chair, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Gut Feelings and Technical Precision:  Thinking about Cystic Fibrosis

April 15, 2010

Jonathan Rees, University of Southern Colorado

Inventing the Cold Chain:  Technology and Marketing in the 19th-Century American Natural Ice Industry

April 16, 2010

Carin Berkowitz, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow

Practicing Medicine: Pedagogical Innovation and Educational Institutions in London, 1800-1835

April 19, 2010

Michael Yudell, Drexel University

Race:  Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20th-Century American Thought

April 20, 2010

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Emperor’s Chemists at War: Joji Sakurai during the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars, 1904–1919

April 22, 2010

Alan Gluchoff, Villanova University

The Introduction and Spread of Nomography in American, 1900-1950

April 26, 2010

Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia

The Googlization of Globalization: How Google Imposes its Unified Model of Information on a Diverse World

April 27, 2010

Matteo Martelli, CHF Edelstein Fellow, University of Bologna, Italy

‘Natural and Secret Things’: The Alchemical Work by Pseudo-Democritus in Its Greek and Syriac Tradition

April 28, 2010

Michael Yudell, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention, Drexel University

Title to be announced

May 4, 2010

Regina Blaszczyk, CHF Senior Scholar

Plexiglas:  From the Eyes of Aviation to McDonald’s Golden Arches

May 7, 2010

Anna Geltzer, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow

Painting Objectivity Red: Soviet Drug Development Practices

May 11, 2010

Nicholas Best, CHF Fellow, Indiana University

Themes in Pre-Lavoisierian Chemistry at the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris

May 18, 2010

Charlotte Bigg, CHF Doan Fellow, CNRS/Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris

Instrument Makers as Mediators between Science and Industry: The Case of Spectroscopy in the Early 20th Century

Upcoming
PACHS Events

March 19, 2010

Erika Lorraine Milam, University of Maryland

From Fish to Man: Negotiating Human Nature with MACOS

April 16, 2010

Carin Berkowitz, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow

Practicing Medicine: Pedagogical Innovation and Educational Institutions in London, 1800-1835

May 7, 2010

Anna Geltzer, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow

Painting Objectivity Red: Soviet Drug Development Practices

Past PACHS Events

March 2, 2010

Ann Norton Greene, University of Pennsylvania

Horses at Work:  Harnessing Power in Industrial America

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*

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

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

October 23, 2009

Kim Tolley, Notre Dame de Namur University

Mathematics and the Science Education of American Girls, 1781-1914

October 2, 2009

Darin Hayton, Haverford College

Astrology as Political Ideology in the Holy Roman Empire During the Era of Emperor Maximilian I

September 23, 2009

Fellows Reception

June 19, 2009

Symposium:  The Legacy of Galileo

June 18, 2009

Panel Discussion:  “What Would Galileo Think?”

May 27, 2009

Spencer R. Weart, Center for History of Physics

The Discovery of Global Warming

May 5, 2009

Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University

Galileo and the Church:  Old Myths, Historical Realities, and Modern Relevance

April 21, 2009

Eric Hintz, University of Pennsylvania, and PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow

The Professional Lives of American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950

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

March 20, 2009

Scott G. Knowles, Drexel University

Experts in Disaster:  Confronting the Fire Problem in Modern American Cities

February 27, 2009

Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College

Necromancy, Celestial Divination, and the Introduction of Arabic Science into England, c. 1080-1180

January 23, 2009

Sharon Kingsland, Johns Hopkins University

Caltech’s Atomic-Age Greenhouse: Exploring the Laboratory Side of the Lab-Field Borderland

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

October 28, 2008

Sarah Bridger, Columbia University
PACHS 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research

October 25, 2008

On the Nature of Things:  Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts

October 24, 2008

William Noel, The Walters Art Museum

Archimedes in Bits:  The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off

October 17, 2008

Paul Pasles, Villanova University

Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers:  An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey

October 7, 2008

Nicholas Spicher, Johns Hopkins University
PACHS 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow

The Method of Mirania:  Teaching Science at the College of Philadelphia

October 3, 2008

Sharrona Pearl, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania

Diagnostic Physiognomy: From Phrenology to Fingerprints

September 25, 2008

Judith Walzer Leavitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Make Room for Daddy: Men and Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century America

September 18, 2008

Terry Christensen, Oregon State University
Miranda Paton, Cornell University

Brown Bag Lunch with Presentations by PACHS Dissertation Research Fellows

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

May 24, 2008

“Arctic Exploration in Motion”:  A Film Festival Featuring Historic Arctic Film Footage

May 22, 2008

North by Degree: An International Conference on Arctic Exploration

May 21, 2008

North by Degree: An International Conference on Arctic Exploration

May 9, 2008

Anke Timmermann, Chemical Heritage Foundation

The Philosophers’ Poem: Alchemical Recipes, 1500-1700

April 18, 2008

Amy Slaton, Drexel University

Race and the Construction of Scientific Aptitude in the ‘Post-Civil-Rights’ U.S.

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

February 22, 2008

Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware

How Does a Risk Society Evolve?  Controlling Fire in Early America

May 10, 2007

Knowing Global Environments:  New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences

Earliest photograph taken inside a museum, ANS, 1841. Image courtesy of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

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Area Exhibits

Permanent Exhibit

Making Modernity

Chemical Heritage Foundation

April 17, 2009 - October 17, 2010

Dialogues with Darwin

American Philosophical Society Museum

April 25, 2009 - December 31, 2010

Nineteenth-Century Patent Models:  Innovation in Miniature

Hagley Museum and Library

December 1, 2009 - December 1, 2010

From Pastels to PDA’s:  Medical Education from the 18th to the 21st Century

Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Library & Gallery

Permanent Exhibit

Franklin Institute Permanent Exhibit:  “Franklin.  He’s Electric.”

The Franklin Institute

Permanent Exhibit

Online Exhibit.  J. G. Brill Company Photographs

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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