FALL 2015

September 9:

Notes from the Field: A conversation about recent archive experiences, featuring graduate students Colleen Lanier and Wythe Marschall and Professor Alex Csiszar

September 16:

Felix Lüttge, practice conference talk, “The whaler’s natural history and natural historians’ whales”

September 23:

Miriam Rich, recent archival work, “‘Protecting the National Germ Plasm’: Concepts of Defective Reproduction from Nineteenth-Century Embryology to American Eugenics”

September 30:

Devin Kennedy, practice conference talk, “What’s Real about Real-Time?: Engineering Responsive Computers from Whirlwind to Project Vanguard”

October 7:

Eli Nelson, article draft, “The Haudenosaunee Akwesanse Environmental Task Forces: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Environmental Action, and Political Sovereignty”

October 14:

Susanne Schmidt, dissertation chapter, “Midlife Crisis: The Story of a Feminist Concept”

October 21:

Special discussion of Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (and outing to see the play at Central Square theater, Oct. 22), led by Gili Vidan, Colleen Lanier, and Professor Alex Csiszar

October 28:

Alma Steingart and Stephanie Dick, overview of new work, Approaches to the History of Mathematics

November 4:

Dan Volmar, practice job talk, “Computers and Nuclear Weapons”

November 25:

Fiona Smyth, dissertation chapter, “Construction and Destruction: The first acoustics laboratory at Britain’s Building Research Station”

December 4:

Anouska Bhattacharyya, recent archival work, “Tactile Elements: Digital Imprints of the Raj”