Events for March 17, 2010

March 17, 2010

Sonya Grypma, Associate Professor, Trinity Western University, BC, Canada

China Confidential:  Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Conducting International Historical Nursing Research

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Time: 12:15 p.m.
Place: 2U Conference Room, Room 2019, Claire Fagin Hall
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Abstract: Researchers poised to commence work on the as-yet-unwritten history of American missionary nurses in China ought to be mindful of a growing expectation that serious research on China missions must go beyond the conventional reliance on English-language data generation and interpretation for an English-speaking audience.  Building on ongoing research on the role of missionary nurses in the development of modern nursing in China, and based on a series of interviews recently conducted in China of participants with ties to a former Canadian mission hospital, this seminar explores ethical and methodological challenges of international and intercultural historical research in nursing. 

March 17, 2010

Roger Horowitz, Chemical Heritage Foundation and Hagley Museum and Library

The Chemistry of Kosher

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Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Chemical Heritage Foundation

Advance registration is required by March 12.

Approximately half the items in American supermarkets are certified kosher.  What led the food industry to embrace kosher laws and rabbis to study food chemistry?  Did modern food change kosher, or did kosher change modern food?  CHF Fellow Roger Horowitz, examines the science behind kosher, including the controversial cases of Coca-Cola and Jell-O. 

CHF’s Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry hosts a community of visiting fellows who establsh CHF as a leading research center in the history of chemistry and related sciences, technologies, and industries.  The “Fellow in Focus” program spotlights research projects that deepen historical perspective and reveal chemistry in unlikely places. 

Roger Horowitz is associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library and a Gordon Cain Fellow at CHF.