Technology, Science, and Environment
Since 2003, the graduate program in the history of technology, science, and environment has hosted a speaker series on campus. Scholars from North America and Europe have presented their work to an audience of faculty from various departments and institutions, graduate students, and undergraduate students. From 2003 to 2008, the speaker series was known as the Maryland Colloquium in the History of Technology (MCHOT) and is now called the Maryland Colloquium in the History of Technology, Science, and Environment. For a list of previous speakers, please click here. During the 2009/10 academic year, Prof. Erika Milam coordinates MCHOTSE. Kindly email her to be added to the monthly email list that provides notices of speakers.
Schedule for the 2009/10 academic year
The Colloquium meets the first Thursday of each month, in room 2110 Taliaferro Hall at the University of Maryland, College Park. Social “hour” with refreshments, 4:00-4:30 pm; presentation and discussion of a pre-circulated paper, 4:30-6:00 pm.
| Fall 2009
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| September 3 |
John Parascandola, University of Maryland, College Park, History
"Quarantining Women: VD Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America" |
| October 1 |
Brian Greenwald, Gallaudet University, History
"Taking Stock: Alexander Graham Bell and Eugenics" |
| November 5 |
Evelyn Zegenhagen, Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
"Approaching a Controversial Biography: Hanna Reitsch, a German Woman Pilot" |
| December 3 |
Sam Walker, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, History
The Road from U.S. Diplomatic History to Yucca Mountain: A Federal Historian's Journey |
| Spring 2010 |
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| February 4 |
Kate Brown, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, History
"Lethal Landscapes: the Secret History of Plutonium, Radiation and the Communities that Learned to Love the Bomb" |
| March 4 |
Alex Russo, Catholic University, Media Studies
Making Sounds You Can Follow: Microphone Technology, Sound Engineers, and Radio Drama in the 1930s" |
| April 1 |
Despina Kakoudaki, American University, Literature
"The Animation of Matter: Alchemy, Modernity and the Artificial Person" |
| May 6 |
Laura Stark, Wesleyan University, Sociology
"Normal patients, clinical research, and the problem of professional ethics at the NIH Clinical Center circa 1953" |
| Keynote Speaker |
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| April 8 |
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin
"Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire"
Interim Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; William Coleman Professor of History of Science; Professor in the Department of Medical History and the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies |
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