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
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics, Villanova University
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 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
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
March 23, 2010
Karen Snetselaar, St. Joseph's University
Charles Darwin the Experimental Biologist
American Philosophical Society Museum and Pennsylvania Horitcultural Society
March 24, 2010
Susan Brandt, Temple University
Medical Education or Spectacle? Dissecting the Body Politics of Jan Van Rymsdyk’s Anatomical Drawings
Pennsylvania Hospital, Historical Collections
March 25, 2010
Gerald Kutcher, The State University of New York at Binghamton
Fast Neutrons for Cancer Therapy: A Case Study of Failure
Program in History of Science, Princeton Universitypachs201003.pdf
March 29, 2010
Gwen Ottinger, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Black Boxes and Clear Buckets: Environmental Justice and the Politics of Scientific Instruments
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
March 30, 2010
Barbara Traister, CHF Allington Fellow, Lehigh University
Alchemy for Everyman: Practical Advice on Finding the Philosopher’s Stone
Chemical Heritage Foundation
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
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
April 5, 2010
Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania
Ideas and Institutions: Some Thoughts on Women’s Role in the Emergence of Modern Science
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
April 7, 2010
History of Women’s Health Conference 2010
Pennsylvania Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania , and the International Council on Women's Health Issues
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
Department of History and Sociology of Science and Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
April 13, 2010
How the Calorie Leapt from Chemistry Lab Obscurity to Diet-Culture Eminence
Chemical Heritage Foundation
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
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
April 15, 2010
Jonathan Rees, University of Southern Colorado
Inventing the Cold Chain: Technology and Marketing in the 19th-Century American Natural Ice Industry
Hagley Museum and Library
April 16, 2010
Carin Berkowitz, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Practicing Medicine: Pedagogical Innovation and Educational Institutions in London, 1800-1835
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
April 19, 2010
Michael Yudell, Drexel University
Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20th-Century American Thought
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
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
Chemical Heritage Foundation
April 22, 2010
Alan Gluchoff, Villanova University
The Introduction and Spread of Nomography in American, 1900-1950
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics, Villanova University
April 26, 2010
Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia
The Googlization of Globalization: How Google Imposes its Unified Model of Information on a Diverse World
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
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
Chemical Heritage Foundation
April 28, 2010
Michael Yudell, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention, Drexel University
Title to be announced
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
May 4, 2010
Regina Blaszczyk, CHF Senior Scholar
Plexiglas: From the Eyes of Aviation to McDonald’s Golden Arches
Chemical Heritage Foundation
May 7, 2010
Anna Geltzer, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Painting Objectivity Red: Soviet Drug Development Practices
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
May 11, 2010
Nicholas Best, CHF Fellow, Indiana University
Themes in Pre-Lavoisierian Chemistry at the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris
Chemical Heritage Foundation
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
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Upcoming
PACHS Events
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
April 16, 2010
Carin Berkowitz, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Practicing Medicine: Pedagogical Innovation and Educational Institutions in London, 1800-1835
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
May 7, 2010
Anna Geltzer, Cornell University & PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
Painting Objectivity Red: Soviet Drug Development Practices
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
Past PACHS Events
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
