Events, Spring 2008

• April 11 (HPS)
  James Griesemer (University of California, Davis): "Neo-Heraclitus: Objectivity, Judgment and a Problem of Locality in Biodiversity Research"
  
  
• April 18 (HHS)
  Yyonne Wübben (Freie Universität and Chicago): " ): “Sort and Tell: Narratives of Mental Illness in E. Kraepelin 's Textbooks (1889-1908)“
  
  
• April 25 (HPS)
  Sergio Martinez (UNAM, Mexico): "Diagrams and Scientific Understanding."
  
  
• May 2 (HHS)
  Kasper Eskildsen (University of Roskilde): "Christian Thomasius, Invisible Philosophers, and Education for Enlightenment"
  

• May 9 (HPS)
  Nancy Buenger (Chicago): "Verity v. Sincerity: Chicago's “I AM” Movement and the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition."
  
  
• May 16 (HHS)
  Matthew Stanley (Michigan State University): "So Simple a Thing as a Star: from Quaker Mysticism to Eddington's Stellar Models.” 
  
  
• May 23 (HPS)
  Lindsey Fitzharris (Oxford): "The Place of John Webster's Metallographia in the Natural Philosophy of Seventeenth-Century England."
  
  
• May 30 (HHS)
  Caitjan Gainty: "Doctors' Orders: Standardizing Care in 20th Century American Medicine."
  
  
  

HPS: History and Philosophy of Science--CHSS and Fishbein Joint Workshop. The workshop meets at 4:00 p.m. in room 224 of the Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St.

HHS: History of Human Sciences-- Fishbein Center Workshop. Papers are available at least a week in advance in the Fishbein Center (Social Science Bldg., Room 206, 1126 E. 59th Street) and sent out electronically. The workshop meets at noon in Social Sciences Building, room 224.

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About the Workshops

Workshop meetings are generally held in the Social Science Research Building (SS) of the University of Chicago at 1126 E. 59th street. For further information or for assistance in attending, please call the Fishbein Center office at (773) 702-8391.

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Email Announcements

Announcements of the above scheduled events are usually sent out in advance on our HPS email list. Announcements of other activities (e.g., social gatherings, ad hoc lectures, readings for the Seminar on Important Things) are also communicated via the HPS list. To subscribe to this list, write to the Director of the Fishbein Center with such request.

This calender and the emali list are maintained jointly by the Fishbein Center and the CHSS program.

SOIT Readings

The Seminar on Important Things meets on alternate Fridays at noon in the Fishbein Center--the same days as HPS workshop. Members will be notified of the exact readings for discussion. Books will be available in the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.

"Professor Simian (with dignity): 'Don't you know that descent means a decline, a fall?"
From The Flaming Sword, July, 1906.

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