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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.


February 17 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm

Colloquium: Bernard Lightman, York University
“The Culture of Evolutionary Naturalism and its Critics.”

Location: 984 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
March 3 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm

Colloquium: Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan
Snow Miller Lecture: “The Entangled Histories of Eugenics, Medical Genetics, and Genetic Counseling.”

Location: 984 Memorial Library (Special Collections). Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm.
March 31 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm

Colloquium: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University
Chauncey Leak Lecture: “Regenerative Medicine and Society: Translation, Transplantation, and Stem Cells in Historical Context.”

Location: Social Science 5231. Cookies & coffee will be available at 3:45pm in Social Science 7130.
April 24 (Friday) at 7:30 pm

Colloquium: Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/University of Chicago
“The Passions of the Unnatural.”

Location: The Pyle Center. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (Humanities without Boundaries series).
May 5 (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm

Colloquium: Elizabeth Williams, Oklahoma State University
“'Frenchness' and Madness: National Identity and Psychopathology in Enlightenment France.”

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