The colloquium meets generally three times per quarter on Thursdays at 4:30
in the Lane History Building, Room 307, unless noted below.

Colloquia 2023-24

Upcoming Colloquia

January
31

Hannah Marcus talk in CMEMS workshop

Date
Wednesday, January 31, 2024, All day
February
2

Galileo Workshop

Date
Friday, February 2, 2024 - Saturday, February 3, 2024, All day
Location:
SHC
February
29

Historicizing the ‘Poverty Mindset’: The First Marshmallow Test, Trinidad and Tobago, 1956 by Susanne Schmidt

Date
Thursday, February 29, 2024, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
History Bldg Room TBA
April
15

Mary Fissell, Dept of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Date
Monday, April 15, 2024, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
History Building 200 Room 307
TBD location and date
May
17

workshop at the Rumsey Map Center on Urbano Monte's 1587 world map

Date
Friday, May 17, 2024 - Saturday, May 18, 2024, All day
Location:
David Ramsey May Center, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford University

Past Colloquia

November
14

Remembering Bruno Latour

Date
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA 94305
Levinthal Hall
Among the most creative and influential scholars of the last 50 years, the protean Bruno Latour (1947-2022) was variously described as sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist.
October
30

Historical Axiomatics with Reviel Netz, Alma Steingart, Columbia and Kati Kish, MIT

Date
Monday, October 30, 2023, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Classics Bldg, Room 112
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Topic: Historical Axiomatics with Reviel Netz, Alma Steingart, Columbia and Kati Kish, MIT
Time: Oct 30, 2023 04:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Meeting ID: 940 4745 5259
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Does Mathematics have a Sociology?Our own Reviel Netz will lead a discussion beginning with Archimedes, and then continue with papers by Kati Kish Bar-On and Alma Steingart. 
October
16

Five Books Every Early Modernist Should Read

Date
Monday, October 16, 2023, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
bldg 260 room 216
Join Renaissances at our upcoming roundtable, "Five Books Every Early Modernist Should Read."We are pleased to host Professors Paula Findlen (History), Barbara Pitkin (Religious
October
5

Reception for Embodied Knowledge: Women and Science before Silicon Valley Exhibition

Date
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Green Library, Bing Wing
459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Munger Rotunda, Bing Wing, 2nd Floor
Please join us in the Green Library Rotunda from 4:30 - 6:30 PM on Thursday, October 5th, for a reception to celebrate Professor Paula Findlen's Embodied Knowledge exhibition.