Past readings
We read and discuss papers from across the history of science. Find detailed information on papers from recent meetings elsewhere on the site, and a selection of articles from previous reading group meetings below.
2018 - 2019
Chair:
Santiago Guzman Gamez
Papers included:
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Espinosa, Mariola. ‘Globalizing the History of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health in Latin America’. Isis 104, no. 4 (2013): 798–806. https://doi.org/10.1086/674946.
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Sivasundaram, Sujit. ‘Sciences and the Global: On Methods, Questions, and Theory’. Isis 101, no. 1 (2010): 146–58. https://doi.org/10.1086/652694.
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Tresch, John. "Cosmologies Materialized: History of Science and History of Ideas." In Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History, by McMahon, Darrin M., and Samuel Moyn, eds., edited by Darrin M. McMahon, and Samuel Moyn. Oxford University Press, 2014. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2014. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199769230.003.0008
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Umberto Veronesi, forthcoming paper, “The Philosopher and the Crucibles: Chymical Practice from the Old Ashmolean Laboratory, Oxford.” Discussion with the author.
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Quintero, Camilo. "Trading in Birds: Imperial Power, National Pride, and the Place of Nature in U.S.–Colombia Relations." Isis102, no. 3 (2011): 421-45. doi:10.1086/661592.
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Soto Laveaga, Gabriela. “Building the nation of the future, one waiting room at a time: hospital murals in the making of modern Mexico” in History and Technology, 31:3. (2015). 275-294
2017 - 2018
Chair: Santiago Guzman Gamez
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Riggs, Christina 'Shouldering the Past: Photography, archaeology, and collective effort at the tomb of Tutankhamun' History of Science 55:3 (2017)
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Nelson, Amy “What the Dogs Did: Animal Agency in the Soviet Manned Space Flight Programme.” BJHS Themes 2 (2017): 79–99.
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Rafael Mandressi 'Affected Doctors: Dead Bodies and Affective and Professional Cultures in Early Modern European Anatomy' Osiris 31.1 (2016)
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Daston, Lorraine. "The Sciences of the Archive." Osiris 27, no. 1 (2012): 156-87. doi:10.1086/667826.
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2016 - 2017
Chair:
Farrah Lawrence-Mackey
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Rich McKay, '"Patient Zero": the absence of a patient's view of the early North American AIDS epidemic', Bulletin of the history of medicine, 2014, Vol. 88(1), pp.161-94.
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Lukas Rieppel, 'Plaster cast publishing in nineteenth-century palaeontology', History of Science, 2015, Vol. 53(4), pp. 456-491.
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Jessica Ratcliff, ‘The East India Company, the Company’s Museum, and the Political Economy of Natural History in the Early Nineteenth Century’, Isis, 2016, Vol. 107(3), pp. 495-517.
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Kelly Whitmer's 'Imagining uses for things: Teaching “useful knowledge” in the early eighteenth century,' History of Science, 55:1 (2017).
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Alex Csiszar's "How lives became lists and scientific papers became data: cataloguing authorship during the nineteenth century" BJHS 50:1 (March 2017) pp.23-60.
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Kara Swanson's "Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office," Isis 108, no. 1 (March 2017): 40-61.
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Soppelsa, Peter. “Visualizing Viaducts in 1880s Paris.” History and Technology 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 371–77. doi:10.1080/07341512.2011.604178.
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Hirsh, Max. “What’s Missing from This Picture? Using Visual Materials in Infrastructure Studies.” History and Technology 27, no. 3 (September 2011): 379–87. doi:10.1080/07341512.2011.604180.
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Elizabeth Yale's "Marginalia, Commonplaces, and Correspondence: Scribal Exchange in Early Modern Science." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & Biomed Sci 42, no. 2 (2011): 193-202.
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Benoit Godin's paper 'Technological Innovation; On the Origins and Development of an Inclusive Concept', Technology and Culture 57:3 (2016).