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2006/07 Colloquia September 26 2006 Robert Proctor, Department of History, Stanford University "The Cigarette in Global Lung History: How Flu Curing, Matches, Mechanization and Mass Marketing led to Mass Death and Deception" October 24 2006 Jon Agar, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University “What Happened in the Sixties? Some Programmatic Suggestions for Historians of Science Studying the Long 1960s” November 14 2006 12 Noon (note time!) Matt Jones, History Department, Columbia University “Sovereignty, Propaganda and Mathematics in Hanover: Leibniz’ Courtly Labor” December 5 2006 Naomi Oreskes, Department of History/Program in Science Studies, UCSD “Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate (1982-2000): How a Group of Distinguished Cold War Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists who Would Definitively Answer the Question of Global Warming” January 23 2007 (“graduate student choice” event) Neal Stephenson, novelist, author of The Baroque Cycle "A conversation about writing about the history of science" February 6 2007 Joan Cadden, Department of History, University of California at Davis “Gender, Genre and Scientific Literacy in the Middle Ages” February 20 2007 FILM SCREENING: “Secrecy” followed by discussion Peter Galison, Department for the History of Science, Harvard University Robb Moss, Department for VES, Harvard University March 20 2007 Fa-Ti Fan, Department of History, The State University of New York, Binghamton "The People's Science: Everyday Epistemology and Earthquake Prediction in Communist China." April 28 2007 Rothschild Lecture: Paolo Galluzzi Tuesday, April 24, 4:00 pm The Robert Rothschild Distinguished Lecture Paolo Galluzzi, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence Details to come May 8 2007 Margaret Locke, Social Studies of Medicine and Anthropology, McGill University “Genomic Divinations: Susceptibility Genes, Epigenetics, and the Social Impact of Calculations of Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease” All colloquia will meet on Tuesdays, starting at 4:00 pm. They will be held in the Science Center room 469, unless otherwise noted. For more information please call 617-495-3741.