Unless otherwise indicated, the lectures are held on Fridays at 3:35 p.m. Room 131 of the Tate Laboratory of Physics on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (refreshments at 3:15 p.m. in Room 216).

January 25
Michael Strevens *
Department of Philosophy
New York university
"What Is Empirical Testing?"
(abstract)

February 1
Christian Fleck
Institute of Sociology
University of Graz, Austria
"Austrian and German Émigré and
Homeguard Social Scientists during the Nazi Period:
A Prosopography"
(abstract)

February 8
Susan D. Jones
Program in History of Science and Technology
University of Minnesota
"Tracing Anthrax:
History, Ecology, and Phylogenetics"
(abstract)

February 14
Thursday, 4:00 PM, Nolte 125
NOTE DIFFERENT DAY, TIME and PLACE
Pamela Smith **
Department of History
Columbia University
"Making and Knowing:
Lived Experience and the Written Word
in Early Modern 'Europe'"
(abstract)

February 15
Friday, Noon, Social Sciences 712 (Ford Room)
NOTE DIFFERENT TIME and PLACE
Pamela Smith **
Department of History
Columbia University
Book Discussion: The Body of the Artisan:
Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
Respondent: Claudia Swan
Art History
Northwestern University
(abstract)

February 22
Mark Walker
Department of History
Union College
"Why Do We Care about 'Hitler's Bomb,'
and Should We?"
(abstract)

February 29
Michael D. Root *
Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota
"Stratifying a Population by Race"
(abstract)

March 7
Brian Woodcock
Department of Philosophy
Carleton College
"Quantum State Collapse Along a Light Cone:
History and Objections"
(abstract)

March 14
No colloquium: Spring Break

March 21
No colloquium: Spring Break

March 28
Jonathan Kahn *
School of Law
Hamline University
"Race, Medicine, and Money:
Contextualizing the Emergence of 'Ethnic' Drugs"
(abstract)

April 4
NOTE DIFFERENT TIMES
2:30 pm
John Doris *
Department of Philosophy
Washington University
"On Reflection (...more or less)"
(abstract)

4:00 pm
Robert Kohler
Department of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
"Wildlife Ecology:
A Residential Science"
(abstract)

April 11
No Colloquium

April 18
John Brown
Department of Science, Technology, and Society
University of Virginia
"Professional Imperatives in Engineering Communities:
A Contest in Constructing the St. Louis Bridge,
1867 - 1874"
(abstract)

April 25
Lisa Downing *
Department of Philosophy
Ohio State University
"Maupertuis on Attraction as an Inherent Property of Matter"
(abstract)

May 2
Thomas Zeller
Department of History
University of Maryland
"Consuming Landscapes:
Parkways and Driving Cultures in the
United States and Germany, 1920-1970"
(abstract)

* Cosponsored by Studies of Science and Technology, the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and Department of Philosophy.

** Cosponsored by the Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) Research Collaborative supported by the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study.