Past Events - Academic Year 2006 - 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007: Peter Koehler, Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen
"Charcot, Hysteria, and Hypnosis: A Constant Source of Inspiration for Literature."
5 PM - Wilson 102
Wednesday, April 18, 2007: "Rachel Carson Was Right"
4 PM - 6PM, MacMillan 117
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of noted writer and ecologist Rachel Carson. Presenters: Dianne Dumanoski is the co-author of Our Stolen Future, which continues the story begun by Carson in Silent Spring. Dr. Julia Brody is the Executive Director of Silent Spring Institute, a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying links between the environment and women's health.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007: Troy Duster, New York University
"Drug Arrests, DNA, Research and Race: What's the Connection?"
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture in Public Health
Monday, March 5, 2007: Helen Longino, Stanford University
"Theoretical Pluralism and the Science of Human Behavior."
4 PM - Smith-Buonanno Room 106
Thursday, March 1, 2007: Doug Haynes, University of California-Irvine
The History of Race in Medicine and Public Health
"'Almost Perfect Machinery': Racial and Sexual Politics in the American Medical Association, 1850-1900."
4 PM - Smith-Buonanno Room 106
Friday, Feb. 23, 2007: Janice L. Neri, Dept. of Art, Boise State University
Sponsored by the Cogut Humanities Research Group on Nature's Disciplines
"Beyond 'Art' and 'Science': Maria Sybilla Merian's Crafting of New World Nature"
3:30 PM - 5 PM. Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
Thursday, February 1 , 2007: Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University
The History of Race in Medicine and Public Health
"Race and Science: New Challenges to an Old Problem."
4 PM - Smith-Buonanno 106
Thursday, November 9, 2006: Keith Wailoo, Rutgers University
The History of Race in Medicine and Public Health
"How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Race and Disease in America."
4 PM - Smith-Buonanno 106
Saturday, April 29, 2006: Science in the Public Eye: A Science and Technology Studies Symposium
10 am: Bruce Lewenstein, Associate Professor of Science Communication, Cornell University: "Must the Media Always Inflame Public Controversies about Science?"
11:15 am: Fred Quivik, Consulting Historian of Technology: "Mining in the West: Who Pays for the Cleanup?"
1:30 pm: Edwin Dobb, Writer/Associate Producer, Rattlesnake Productions / Contributing Editor, Harper's Magazine: "Impertinent Questions and Bloody Fingers"
2:45 pm: Pamela Roberts, Director/Producer, Rattlesnake Productions: "Teach Globally, Learn Locally: Telling Universal Stories about Particular Places"
Moderated by Catherine Imbriglio, Lecturer in English, Brown University.
Monday, March 13, 2006: Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania
"Genes and Disease: the rise of genomic medicine in the United States"
Tuesday, February 7, 2006: Tom Gieryn, Indiana University
"Truth-Spots: How place lends credibility to claims and legitimacy to beliefs."