2016-2017 Colloquia

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

Past Events

May
11

Olivier Darrigol, Research director, CNRS; SPHere; Research scholar at UC-Berkeley, OHST

Date
Thursday, May 11, 2017, 4:30pm
Location:
Building 90-92Q
The Unnamed Structuralism of a few Nineteenth-century Philosopher-physicists
April
26

Robin Barnes, Davidson College, on his recently published book, Astrology and Reformation

Date
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 12:00pm
Location:
Location 260 room 252
April
14

‘Ilm wa ‘Amal: Nature, Body and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate Societies

Date
Friday, April 14, 2017, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
Lane History Building 200, Room 307
Stanford University
Speaker
Tuna Artun (Rutgers), Nahyan Fancy (DePauw), Paula Findlen (Stanford), Noah Gardiner (U South Carolina), Harun Kucuk (University of Pennsylvania), Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U South Carolina), Robert Morrison (Bowdoin), Lissa Roberts (University of Twente), Ahmet Tunc Sen (Leiden University), Nir Shafir (UCSD), Baki Tezcan (UC Davis), Nukhet Varlik (Rutgers), Ali Yaycioglu (Stanford), Duygu Yildirim (Stanford)
Abstracts
April
11

Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Editor of History of Science, Kratter Visiting Professor to Stanford University

Date
Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 12:00pm
Location:
History Building Room 307
The History of Failure and the Failure of History Please RSVP for lunch to rrogers
February
14

Jessica Carter, University of Southern Denmark

Date
Tuesday, February 14, 2017, 4:30pm
Location:
Building 240, Room 101
Logic of Relations and Diagrammatic reasoning: Structuralist elements in the work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914).
February
10

Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present

Date
Friday, February 10, 2017, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Speaker
John Bender (Stanford University), Jessica Carter (University of Southern Denmark), Karine Chemla (CNRS SPHère), Silvia De Toffoli (Stanford University), Paula Findlen (Stanford University), Valeria Giardino (CNRS Archives Henri Poincarè, Jim Griesemer (UC Davis), Eunsoo Lee (Stanford University), Melissa Lo (The Huntington Library), Kenneth Manders (University of Pittsburgh), Michael Marrinan (Stanford University), Marco Panza (CNRS IHPST), Jenny Pegg (Stanford University), Greg Priest (Stanford University), Jessica Riskin (Stanford University), Rasmus Winther (UC Santa Cruz), Norton Wise (UCLA)
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January
26

James Woodward, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Date
Thursday, January 26, 2017, 4:30pm
Location:
Bldg 200 Room 307
Causation with a Human Face
January
17

Catherine Jami, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine

Date
Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 4:30pm
Location:
Bldg 200 Room 307
Science and Empire: The view from from Beijing, c.
December
12

Bart Bernstein, Stanford University History Professor Emeritus

Date
Monday, December 12, 2016, 12:00pm
Location:
Bldg 200 Room 307
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Black Holes: The Many Puzzles
November
4

Workshop on Intersections of Science, Language, & Literature in Modern and Premodern Korea

Date
Friday, November 4, 2016, All day
Location:
Lathrop Library, Room 224
518 Memorial Way