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Colloquia
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Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia are in the Harlow Room, History of Science Collections, 5th floor of Bizzell Library. Refreshments are served at 3:00, and colloquia begin at 3:30. |
| 22 January |
Prof. Bernard Lightman, York University: "J.G. Woods and the Agenda of Scientific Naturalism." 12:00 p.m. |
| 23 January |
Prof. Rima Apple, University of Wisconsin: "Science and childrearing: mothers’ responses to advice literature in the first half of the 20th century." 12:00 p.m. |
| 26 January |
Dr. Darrel Rutkin, Visiting Asst. Prof., OU: “The Mysteries of Attraction: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Astrology and Desire” |
| 2 February |
Brenda Gardenour, C. Phil., Boston University: “Medicine and Miracle: Viewing the History of Medicine through the Lens of Medieval Religious Texts” |
| 8 February |
Edward Gerjuoy, Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh: “Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger.” Nielsen Hall 170 at 4:00 p.m. |
| 9 February |
Dr. Adam Lucas, Sr. Policy Officer, New South Wales Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs: “Medieval Milling: Economic, Social and Technological Developments in the Transition to Modernity” |
| 16 February |
Dr. Rienk Vermij, Universiteit Utrecht: “Laws of Nature in Cartesian and Newtonian Thought” |
| 23 February |
No Colloquium |
| 1 March (Thursday) |
Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University, Assoc. Prof. & Chair, Germanic Languages and Lit.: “What Excites a Man?: Wandering Genitalia in Late Medieval German Literature.” Kaufman Hall 140 at 4:30 p.m. |
| 2 March |
Dr. Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University: “The East Meets the Modern Technoscientific West: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Indigenization from India, China, and Japan.” 12:00 p.m. |
| Also 2 March |
Dr. Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University: “Hubris or Hybrids? On the Cultural Assessment of Nanotechnology” 4:00 p.m. |
| 9 March |
Dr. Stephen Weldon, Asst. Professor, OU HSCI Department: |
| 16 March |
No Colloquium |
| 23 March |
Spring Break |
| 30 March |
Professor Dennis Sepper, University of Dallas: “Imagining Your Way to Science” |
| 6 April |
Assoc. Prof. Alice Walters, Murray State University: “Acquiring Astronomy: Tools of Astronomical Instruction & Enlightenment in 18th-century Britain” |
| 13 April |
No Colloquium. Cancelled for Friday the 13th. JUNTO meeting at Iowa State University. |
| 20 April |
Graduate Student Presentations |
| 27 April |
Graduate Student Presentations |
| 4 May |
No Colloquium |
