The Program sponsors a regular biweekly Colloquium during the fall and spring terms. Its aim is to enlarge the engagement of faculty and, especially, students with the diverse approaches and cutting-edge work of both junior and senior scholars from the United States and abroad in the history of science and medicine. The colloquia are well attended and are the site of vigorous discussion following the talks.
All colloquia, workshops, and lectures are scheduled for 3:45 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2019
September 9, 2019
Rana Hogarth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Professional Pursuits and the Making of Race: Medicalizing Blackness in the Atlantic World”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
September 16, 2019 (An HSHM co-sponsored event)
SASC Lecture Series
Venkat Srinivasan, archivist at India’s National Center for Biological Sciences
“Archives as Interpretation”
Location: Rosenkranz Hall, Room 241, 115 Prospect Street, 4:00 p.m.
October 7, 2019
Elizabeth O’Brien, Johns Hopkins University
“From Syringe to Surgery, and Back Again: Baptizing the Unborn in the Catholic World, 1770-1875”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
October 28, 2019
McGovern Lecture
Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University
“The Patient as ‘Watch Bird’: Historical Perspectives on Patients’ Roles in Health Care Quality Reform”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m.
November 18, 2019
Michael Rodriguez, Northwestern University
Title TBA
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
December 2, 2019
Nara Milanich, Barnard College
Title TBA
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
Spring 2020
January 27, 2020
Nic Ramos, Brown University
“Emergent Economies, Emergent Medicine: Emergency Medical Services and the Normalization of Everyday Violence in 1980s Los Angeles”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
February 3, 2020
Naveeda Kahn, Johns Hopkins University
Title TBA
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
February 17, 2020
Dan Bouk, Colgate University
Title TBA
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
February 24, 2020
Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge
Title TBA
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
March 30, 2020
Holmes Lecture
Wendy Kline, Purdue University
“The ‘LSD Block’ and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Psychedelic Medicine in the U.K.”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m.
April 13, 2020
Manuelidis Lecture
Leslie Reagan, University of Illinois
“Defining Disabilities: Agent Orange, Veterans, Children, and the US Government”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m
April 20, 2020
Nasser Zakariya, University of California Berkeley
Title TBA
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street