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Poster from HSMT Colloquia Fall 2018 showing events with a man with glasses and large nose wearing a full suit and bowtie to the left of the text block. The poster reads Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology 2018 Colloquia & Special Events (HW) September 13 AMY BIX, Iowa State University Encouraging Engineer Jane and Astrophysicist Amy: American STEM Advocacy for Girls, 1965–Today (EB) September 20 DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS, Queens College CUNY Exploring Hapticity, Slavery and the Emergence of American Gynecology (EB) September 27 WARWICK ANDERSON, University of Sydney From Racial Types to Aboriginal Clines: The Illustrative Career of Joseph B. Birdsell (HW) October 4 MARGARET SCHOTTE, York University Sailing School, 1790: Lieutenant Riou Navigates Science and Skill [no paper] (EB) October 11 MARTA HANSON & GIANNA POMATA, Johns Hopkins University A Chinese Pulse Treatise in Early Modern Europe: The Latin and French translations of the Tucha maijue bianfen 圖說脈訣辯 釋 (HW) October 18 ERIC HERSCHTHAL, Ohio State University Benjamin Banneker: Avid Astronomer, Accidental Abolitionist (EB) October 19 The Work of Diagnosis: Medical Concepts In Social Life Graduate Student Conference – Co‑sponsored by the Department of Anthropology (KSAS) and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (SOM) ► Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (EB) October 25 SARA RITCHEY, University of Tennessee A Regimen of Hours: Psalters as Sources of Thirteenth‑Century Feminine Therapeutic Epistemology (HW) November 8 JOHN C. POWERS, Virginia Commonwealth University Chemistry and the Senses: Philosophical Brewing in the 18th Century [no paper] (EB) November 15 TIMOTHY D. WALKER, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Portuguese Parallels: Comparing the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Amsterdam, 1648) to Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Brazilian Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries (HW) November 26 SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Harvard University Toward a Theory of Happy Curiosity History Department Seminar (KSAS), co‑sponsored by the Department of the History of Medicine (SOM) ► Monday, 4:00 – 5:30 pm, Gilman Hall, 308 (HW) November 29 IAN JARED MILLER, Harvard University The Political Economy of Light: Tokyo Electric and the Advent of Japan’s Anthropocene (EB) December 6 MIRANDA BROWN, University of Michigan Milky Medicine: Recipes from Early Modern China NOTE: Colloquia are conducted on the basis of pre‑circulated papers, unless noted [no paper]. For copies of papers, please contact: (EB) Ms. Marian Robbins (410) 955‑3662 mwrobins@jhmi.edu (HW) Ms. Danielle Stout (410) 516‑7501 danielle@jhu.edu Unless otherwise noted meetings will be on Thursdays at 3:00–4:30 pm at either: (EB) Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room, 3rd floor Welch Medical Library, 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 credit at bottom (small print, partially legible): “Men of the Day, No. 19. A great Medicine‑Man among the mosquitoes,” Vanity Fair (London), Dec. 28, 1871, by Carlo Pellegrini, signed “Ape”; reproduced by permission of The Library Company of Philadelphia, Print Dept., 193078. Gift of S. K. Hanksley, Vann Tyor, & L.S. Measley. Medium by Richard Ellis from the Private Library of William J. Sollyn.

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