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Poster with details of Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology from Fall 2017. Poster text: Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia & Special Events (HW) September 14 YULIA FRUMER, Johns Hopkins University Humanoid Robotics in Japan: A Case for the Cognitive Approach (EB) September 21 ELISE BURTON, Cambridge University The Presence of Absence: G6PD Deficiency and “Medical Archaeology” in the Middle East (HW) September 28 IVANO DAL PRETE, Yale University On the Edge of Eternity: Thinking of an Ancient Earth in Pre‑modern Europe (EB) October 5 JENNIFER TUCKER, Wesleyan University Chemical Exposure: The Victorian Alkali Industry through the Camera’s Lens (HW) October 12 HELEN ROZWADOWSKI, University of Connecticut Frontiers of Discovery: Changing Meanings of “Frontier” from Frederick Jackson Turner to John F. Kennedy and Beyond (EB) ◆ October 13–14 ◆ JOINT ATLANTIC SEMINAR FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE See: jashistofmed.wordpress.com for program and registration information (EB) October 19 GEORGE WEISZ, McGill University International Research Policy and the Emergence of the New Global Health 1974–1997 (EB) October 26 VICTOR BRATTBERG, University of Arizona and JEREMY GREENE, Johns Hopkins University Innovation on the Reservation: Information Technology and Health Systems Research in the Tohono O’odham Nation (EB & HW) ◆ October 27–28 ◆ MEDIA MEDICA CONFERENCE Oct. 27: Hurd Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital & Welch Library Building Oct. 28: Levering Hall, Homewood campus For program and registration information, see: mediamedicaconfsite.wordpress.com (HW) November 2 MONICA AZZOLINI, University of Edinburgh Skirting Disaster: The Making of Patron Saints of Earthquakes in Early Modern Italy and Beyond [No paper] Co‑sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Pre‑Modern Europe 3 pm, Arellano Theater, Levering Hall (HW) November 16 DANIEL TODES, Johns Hopkins University and ELEONORA FILIPPOVA, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Prayer as Paradigm: Aleksei Ukhtomsky, Old Belief Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Physiology of Attention [No paper] (EB) November 30 MICHAEL LIU, Academia Sinica The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Cold War East Asia NOTE: Colloquia are conducted on the basis of pre‑circulated papers, unless indicated [no paper] For copies please contact: (EB) Ms. Marian Robbins (410) 955‑3662 mwrobbins@jhmi.edu (HW) Ms. Danielle Stout (410) 516‑7501 danielle@jhu.edu Meetings will be held on Thursdays at 3:00–4:30 p.m. at either: (EB) Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room, 3rd floor Welch Medical Library Building, East Baltimore Campus or (HW) Department of the History of Science & Technology, 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus For schedule updates & other information, please check: https://www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events Image credits (small print at bottom): Images from: Men of the Day, No. 33, “Natural Selection,” Vanity Fair (London), Sept. 30, 1871, engraved by The Photo‑gravure Laboratories, Inc., ca. 1930s; Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Print Dept., 1930.78; Gift of S.K. Hanksley, Vann Tyor, & L.S. Measley. Medium by Richard Ellis from the Private Library of William J. Sallivan, Jr.

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