The Holmes Workshop Series aims to encourage scholarly discussions of ongoing research among graduate students and faculty members at Yale working on projects related to the history of science and medicine, while fostering a sense of community spirit and collegiality among members of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. It is named after Dr. Frederic L. Holmes, former chairman of the Program.
Holmes workshops run from 3:45-5:15 p.m. on certain Mondays throughout the fall and spring semesters and will be held in the Fulton Room (333 Cedar Street). Presenters are encouraged to pre-circulate their papers or chapters when possible.
Fall 2020
September 14
Presenter: Beans Velocci
Title: Standards of Care: Uncertainty and Risk in Harry Benjamin’s Transsexual Classifications
September 28
Presenter: Simon Torracinta
Title: TBA
October 12
Presenter: Carolyn Jacobs
Title: TBA
October 26
Presenter: Hussein Mohsen
Title: TBA
November 9
Presenter: Charlotte Leib and Kristine Ericson
Title: TBA
December 7
Presenter: Sarah Pickman
Title: TBA
Spring 2021
January 25
Presenter: Angélica Clayton
Title: TBA
February 8
Presenter: Gourav Krishna Nandi
Title: TBA
February 15
Presenter: Oliver Lucier
The Construction of a Normative Climate: Caribbean Commodities and Holdridge Life Zones, 1940-1970
March 1
Presenter: Megann Licskai
Pro-Life Science Goes to Washington: the Making and Breaking of “Partial Birth Abortion”
March 22
Presenter: Caitlin Kossmann
Title: TBA
April 12
Presenter: Kelsey Henry
Title: TBA
April 19
Presenter: Sophia Kitlinski and Alicia Petersen
Title: TBA
April 26
Presenter: Angelica Clayton
Title: TBA