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The Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology presents its Spring 2026 Colloquia Series.

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Poster for Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Spring 2026 Colloquia. Left side shows a colorful illustration of an insect and a mouse. Right side lists Thursday talks, 3:00–4:30 p.m., hybrid format (EB Welch Library 303; HW Gilman 300; SE special events indicated). Talks and dates: Jan 22 (EB): Daniel Hosang, Yale University — Integrating the History & Afterlives of Eugenics into Medical Education: Promises and Possibilities at Yale. Jan 29 (HW): Ian Miller, Saint Johns University — The Fengshui Curriculum: Standardizing Landscape Expertise in Late Imperial China. Feb 5 (EB): Nathaniel Comfort, Johns Hopkins University — Not Boring People: James Watson Finds the Limits of His Own Reputation. Feb 12 (EB): Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins University — Rats in a ‘Renaissance’ City: Rodent control in post-war Baltimore. Feb 19 (HW): Patrick McCray, University of California Santa Barbara — README: Some Pages from a Bookish History of Computing [no paper]. Feb 26 (HW): Brad Bolman, Tulane University — Dank Cultivation: Cave Mushrooms, International Commerce, and Underground Knowledge. Mar 5 (SE): David Jones, Harvard University — Special Event: Hideyo Noguchi Lecture, 4pm, Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB, EB Campus. Inherently Limited by Our Imaginations: Health Anticipation, and the History of the Climate Crisis [no paper]. Mar 12 (EB): Richard Del Rio, Johns Hopkins University — The Drug Business in Late Nineteenth Century Amazonia. Mar 26 (SE): Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University — Special Event: Book Launch, 6pm, location TBD. The Alchemy of John of Rupescissa’s Book of the Light of the Great Magistery. Apr 2 (SE): Jennifer Stager, Johns Hopkins University — Special Event: Alapioutsos Lecture, 4pm, Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB, EB Campus. How to Mend a Body in Ancient Greece [no paper]. Apr 9 (HW): Andrew Kishuni, Johns Hopkins University — “The Sheep War”: How Six Thousand Sheep and a Congressman (Almost) Ended America’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Program. Apr 16 (HW): Shiyi Xiang, Johns Hopkins University — Shaping Tropical Frontiers: Agricultural Science and Environmental Transformation in Hainan’s Rubber Farms, 1950–1970s. Apr 23 (EB): Khushboo Rashid, Johns Hopkins University — Knowing New Drugs: Experience and Reasoning in the Making of the Early Modern Persian Pharmacopoeia. Note: Colloquia are based on pre-circulated papers; contact Marian Robbins (EB) or Heather Dozier (HW) for copies or virtual links. Small JHU crest at top. Image credit at bottom: The Martinique Association of Rats, Mice, Mosquitoes, Roaches, Flies…Spys, Thank You (1990), photomechanical print, color.