Unless otherwise noted meetings will be held on Thursdays at 3:00-4:30 p.m. at either:

(EB) Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room, 3rd floorWelch Medical Library, East Baltimore Campus or

(HW) Department of the History of Science & Technology 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus

For schedule updates & other information, please check: http://www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/

NOTE: Colloquia are conducted on the basis of pre-circulated papers, for copies of papers, please contact:

(EB) Ms. Marian Robbins (410) 955-3662 <myrobbins@jhu.edu>(HW) Ms. Danielle Stout (410) 516-7501 <danielle@jhu.edu>

“Manikin of Head”, Library of Health… Ed. by B. Frank Scholl. Philadelphia, PA: Historical Publishing Co., 1924, ©1916., p. 36[Sequence of superimposed illustrations]. Courtesy, Institute of the History of Medicine.

(EB) February 1 MYLES JACKSON, New York University Physicists, Physiologists, and the Standardization of Musical Performance and Musicians’ Bodies

(HW) February 8 KWANG-SUK LEE, Seoul National University of Science and Technology Between the Developmental State and Popular Nationalism: The Pure Hangul (Korean) Movement in the Early History of PCs and

Networks in S. Korea [no paper]

(EB) February 15 RAMAH McKAY, University of Pennsylvania Mourning Alma Ata in Mozambique: Global Health, Community Labor, and the Politics of Health after the Clinical Dream

(HW) February 22 GABRIELE FERRARIO, Johns Hopkins University Science in Fragments: Scientific Theory and Practice in Medieval Cairo [no paper]

(EB) February 27 DAVID CAREY, JR., Loyola University Tropical Diseases in Mountainous Environments: Malaria and Highland Indians in Guatemala and Ecuador, 1900-1950

Tuesday Brown Bag Lunch Talk, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Seminar Room

(EB) March 1 JULIE LIVINGSTON, New York University Cattle/Beef – Health, Desire, and the Problem of Self-Devouring Growth in Botswana

(HW) March 8 LIJING JIANG, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia The Troubled Escape from Lysenko’s Shadow: Problems of Heredity, Patriotism, and Scientific Temporality in Cold-War Migration of

Chinese American Biologists

(HW) March 9 MORRIS W. OFFIT SYMPOSIUM ON MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND JEWS: Art and Architecture, Science and Medicine in the Islamicate World Friday, 9am - 6 pm, Gilman 50 SEE: http://host.jhu.edu/events/ for program and further information

(EB) March 12 SAMUEL K. ROBERTS, JR, Columbia University Drugs, Politics, and Pariahs; Or How to Think About Race & Harm Reduction in an Opioid Epidemic

XXVIth Noguchi Lecture, East Reading Room, 4:00 See: www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org

(EB) March 15 REBECCA WILLBANKS, Johns Hopkins University Biology is Technology: Science Fiction, Artificial Life, and the Emergence of Synthetic Biology

(HW) March 29 MATTHEW WISNIOSKI, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Incubating Entrepreneurs: NSF University Innovation Centers and the Making of Technoscientific Selves in the 1970s

(HW) April 3 GYO NAKAO, University of Tokyo Constructing “Eastern”Taxonomy: Buddhism, Mendelism, and Nationalism in Hayata Bunzo’s Botany, 1917-1934. Tuesday Brown Bag Lunch Talk, Noon.-1:00 p.m., Gilman 300

(EB) April 5 ANNA WEERASINGHE, Johns Hopkins University “For they are women expert in the art”: Witnessing Women’s Medicine in Portuguese Goa, 1608-1611

(HW) April 12 NUNO CASTEL-BRANCO, Johns Hopkins University Royal Mechanics or work for the Kingdom? Jesuits teaching mechanics in 17th-century Portugal

(HW) April 17 YOUJUNG SHIN, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Networks of Meteorological Knowledge: The Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment TAMEX Tuesday Brown Bag Lunch Talk, Noon.-1:00 p.m., Gilman 300

(EB) April 17 MARK JENNER, University of York JOHN J. GILBRIDE MEMORIAL LECTURE: The Polite and the Excremental:

Work, Commerce and Sanitation in Eighteenth-Century London West Reading Room, 4:00-5:30 pm

(EB) April 19 ERIKA DYCK, University of Saskatchewan Dying under the Skies with Diamonds: A Historical Look at Psychedelics and Palliative Care

(HW) April 20 MISSIONARY ORBITS: Workshop on Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World. Discussion by Antonella Romano, EHESS & Director of the Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris. Lecture, 1:30 pm: Crossing Continents and Boundaries. The Orang-outan in Enlightenment Sciences of Man by Silvia Sebastiani, EHESS. Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center. Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Gilman 50

(HW) April 26 STEPHANIE DICK, University of Pennsylvania After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in Postwar United States [no paper]

(EB) May 3 EMILY CLARK, Johns Hopkins University “Such a Monster as I, May be Saved”: Unnatural Mothers and Child Murder in New England Print Culture, 1693-1772

(EB) May 4-5 HEALTH, MEDICINE & CIVIL UNREST CONFERENCE Registration required See: www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events for more information

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