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Department Events

Brown Bags

Brown Bag talks occur at Noon on Fridays in the Bradley Seminar Room, Rm. 204 in the Bradley Memorial Building, or sometimes Union South; the room will be advertised when knownlook at the TITU/Today in the Union schedule on the day concerned.

The schedule of upcoming (and past) Brown Bags can be viewed at the History of Science department website.

Department Faculty Events

Medical History & Bioethics department faculty give frequent talks to University of Wisconsin departments and groups as well as speaking at conferences and workshops. A listing of these events can be viewed by clicking here.


September 22 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm

Colloquium: Lynn Nyhart, UW-Madison
“Isolation in Biogeography and Evolution from Moritz Wagner to Ernst Mayr.”

Location: 984 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
October 2 (Friday) at Noon

Dr. Stuart J. Youngner, Case Western Reserve, Chair of Bioethics Department
“The Dead Donor Rule and the Definition of Death: Should We Keep Playing Cat and Mouse?”
October 2 (Friday) at 4:00 pm

Dr. Stuart J. Youngner, Case Western Reserve, Chair of Bioethics Department
“Creating Chimeras for Stem Cell Research: What Could be Bad About It?”

Location: MSC Room 1490
October 20 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm

Colloquium: Emily Grosholz, Pennsylvania State University
“The Representation of Time: Awareness, Mathematics, and the Puzzle of Asymmetry.”

Location: 984 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
November 16 (Monday) at Noon

Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the MacLean Center for Bioethics at the University of Chicago
“Ethical Issues in Elective Transplantation”

Location: CSC Room G5/113
November 16 (Monday) at 4:00 pm

Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the MacLean Center for Bioethics at the University of Chicago
“Ethical and Policy Issues in Predictive Genetic Testing in Children”

Location: MHB 1490
December 1 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm

Colloquium: Cynthia Connolly, Yale University
“TB or not TB: Children and Tuberculosis Prevention in the United States, 1900-1945.”

Location: 984 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
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