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 2021
September 13
Community Guidelines for Holmes Workshop and Informal Gathering
September 27
Constantin Kilcher
“The Conditions of possibility of the Zurich Moment. Three Germans and a Swiss”
October 18
Libby O’Neil
“Dreaming in a Vacuum: On Psychoanalysis as Experimental Science”
November 1
Alicia Petersen
Dissertation Prospectus
November 8
Kristine Ericson
Dissertation Prospectus
November 22
Deborah Streahle
Dissertation Chapter
Spring 2022
January 31
Colloquium-adjacent Program-wide Check-In
February 14 (virtual)
Holmes Workshop with Charlotte Rich
“Sutured Bodies, Torn Communities: The Irish Immigrant Women Who Helped Build American Gynecology”
Comments by Madeleine Ware
February 21 (virtual)
Holmes Workshop with Deborah Streahle
“ ‘The Community’s Burden Bearer’: Civil Rights Activist Funeral Technologies”
Comments by Gourav Krishna Nandi and Dolma Ombadykow
February 28 (hybrid)
Holmes Workshop with Kenya Loudd
“100 years of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A survivors perspective on the trauma of disease”
Comments by Kelsey Henry
March 7 (virtual)
Visit Day Holmes Workshop, double prospectus brainstorms with Sydney Green and Oliver Lucier
March 14
Colloquium: Grant Writing Workshop with Debbie Coen
April 4 (hybrid)
Holmes Workshop with Madeleine Ware
“Gynecological Gymnastics: Assuaging Victorian Anxieties with Pelvic Floor Strengthening”
Comments by Sarah Pickman
April 11 (virtual)
Holmes Workshop with Maile Speakman
“Tropical Infrastructure: Google’s Fiber Optic and Cultural Strategy in Cuba”
Comments by Kristine Ericson
April 18
Colloquium: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Workshop with Angélica Clayton
April 25 (virtual)
Holmes Workshop with Zoe Adams
Doctor of “Dealer”: The Fight to Prescribe Methadone in Nixon’s America
Comments by Deborah Streahle
May 2 (hybrid)
Holmes Workshop with Kelsey Henry
Dissertation chapter about racial biometrics, child development, and early child studies (1890-1920)
Comments by Kenya Loudd