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The UCLA History of Science and Medicine Colloquium, Spring 2008
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April 07, 2008 12:00 AM
to May 28, 2008 12:00 AM |
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| Where | All talks to be held in 5288 Bunche Hall Mondays at 4:00, except where noted. |
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All are welcome. For more information contact Lino Camprubi at linocamprubi@ucla.edu
April 7: William Clark (UCLA), "The Romance of the Scientist: A Modern Demonology and Hagiography."
April 14: Donald Rutherford (UCSD), "Leibniz’s Dynamica: The Anatomy of a Failed Research Program."
April 21: Susanna Hecht (UCLA), “Tropicality, tropicalisms in Amazonia: the Implications for ideologies of Conservation Ecology.”
April 28: Robert Westman (UCSD), "Copernicus and the Astrologers of Cracow and Bologna."
May 5: Informal discussion of Cañizares-Esquerra, Jorge, Nature, Empire and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
May 12: Gustavo Garza (UCLA, graduate), "Percy Grainger, The English Folk-Song Society, and the Phonograph: TheQuest for Artistic Expression"
May 19: Dora Weiner (UCLA), “Peru as Patient, 1750-1850: Medical Prescriptionfor an Ailing Body Politic."
May 27 (TUESDAY): Kevin Lambert (Cal State Fullerton), “Maxwell’s Method, Boole’s Analogy, and Faraday’s Researches:
Mathematics and Electrical Research in Victorian Britain.”
Note: Monday Colloquium papers to be pre-circulated (for UCLA presenters) will be available in Bunche 5288 about a week prior to the event, as well as posted at: http://www.history.ucla.edu/academics/graduate/fields-of-study/science-1/calendar-of-events