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The Department of the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, CAS, at the University of Oklahoma.
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Please join us Friday, November 17 at 3:30 when Thomas Zeller (University of Maryland) Presents "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters." Please email [email protected] for Zoom information.

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Please join us 7 pm, Oct 5, for historian James Fleming's 2023 Taylor-Wei Distinguished Lecture: “Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere.” National Weather Center: NWC 1313. Reception at 6 in the NWC atrium. Webinar link: https://t.co/bm96Fwkiqo

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HSTM cordially invites you to “Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere” w/ James Fleming (Colby College), Taylor-Wei Distinguished Lecturer in the History of Meteorology. Oct. 5, 7-8:30 pm, National Weather Center, Rm 1313. For accessibility info, contact [email protected].

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HSTM cordially invites you to our May 4 brown bag talk: "A Digital Humanities Project as Public History: Exploring Public Health, Preventive Medicine, and Nutrition" with Carolyn Scearce (OU). 12-1pm, PHSC 402. For questions or info about accessibility, contact [email protected]

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HSTM cordially invites you to our Apr. 28 colloquium: "More or Less: Thinking Pharmacologically in Enlightenment Venice." Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College). 3:30-5:00 pm, Harlow Room, Bizzell Library. For questions or info about accessibility, please contact [email protected]

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Tues, Apr. 25: Health, Medicine & Society Capstone Conference, “The social determinants of health in modern medicine.” 1:30-4:30pm Harlow Room, History of Science Collections, 5th floor of Bizzell Library. For more info, please contact Dr. Piers Hale ([email protected]).

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Congratulations to Prof. Suzanne Moon for being awarded the Luke N. Walker Presidential Professorship!

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Mar. 31 Colloquium: "Geopolitical Geology: Continental Drift Theory and the Decline of Empire." Daniella McCahey, Ph.D. (Texas Tech University). 3:30-5:00, Harlow Room, Bizzell Library. For more info, please contact [email protected].

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Mar. 3 Colloquium: "Earthquakes in the Early Modern World: A Clueless Science." Rienk Vermij, OU HSTM. 3:30-5:00, PHSC 402. For more info, please contact [email protected].

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Brown Bag: "The Originality Conundrum: British Education of Japanese Engineers in the Mid-19th Century." Tomoko Yoshida. Thurs., March 2, 2023, 12:00-1:00pm. PHSC 402.

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Mar. 3 Colloquium: "Earthquakes in the Early Modern World: A Clueless Science." Rienk Vermij, OU HSTM. 3:30-5:00, PHSC 402. For more info, please contact [email protected].

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Feb. 16 Brown Bag: "'There can be no error because there was an eclipse'. Astronomical longitudes and political ambitions, 1494-1524." José Moreno, Ph.D. (University of Lisbon). 12:00pm - 1:00pm, PHSC 402. For more info, please contact [email protected].

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Feb. 3 Colloquium: “How to Catch a Tornado: The Tornado Intercept Project and the Genesis of Scientific Storm Chasing.” Kate Carpenter, Princeton University & Taylor-Wei Fellow. 3:30–5, Harlow Room, 5th Floor, Bizzell Library. For more info, please contact [email protected].

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Dec. 8 Brown Bag: "Structures of reasoning in Ancient Babylonia (2000-1600 BCE)," Robert Middeke-Conlin (University of Copenhagen), 12-1pm, Thursday. PHSC 402. For more information and questions regarding accessibility, please contact [email protected].

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Dec. 2 Colloquium: “The Great Winter of 1709 in the European Republic of Letters,” Jin Woo Choi (Princeton U. and Taylor-Wei Dissertation Fellow). Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. 3:30-5:00. PHSC 402. For information or questions regarding accessibility, please contact [email protected]

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Nov. 21 Colloquium: “Galileo Before the Sidereus Nuncius: Reaccreditation and Pseudonymity” with Dr. Matteo Cosci (University of Venice). 12:00-1:30 pm via Zoom. Please contact [email protected] for Zoom link, information, or questions regarding accessibility.

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Oct. 28: "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" by Dr. Victor Seow (Harvard University). 3:30-5:00 pm via Zoom. For Zoom link, more information or questions regarding accessibility, please contact [email protected].

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Oct. 21: “Ephemera: Non-traditional Sources in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine” panel discussion with Aparna Nair, Katherine Pandora, and Peter Soppelsa. 3:30-5:00, PHSC 402. Email Suzanne Moon ([email protected]) about accommodations on the basis of disability.

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The Department of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine cordially invites you to attend our Zoom colloquium: Stephen Casper (Clarkson University), “A Cultural History of Violence to the Brain."
Sept. 30, 3:30-5:00 pm via Zoom. Contact [email protected] for details.

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We cordially invite you to our first colloquium of the academic year: John Emery (OU, IAS) “Algorithmic Killing: Drones, Computation, and Humanity.” 9/9/22, 3:30-5:00, PHSC 402. Contact Suzanne Moon ([email protected]) for more information or inquiries about accessibility.