Biological Sciences (inactive)
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Upcoming Meetings
There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.
Past Meetings
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October 5, 2017
Postponed
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May 4, 2017
Lawrence Kessler joined the group, as we discussed a chapter from his on-going project, entitled "Entomology and Empire: Biological Pest Control, Diversified Farming, and Hawaiian Sugarcane Planters' Campaign for Annexation, 1893-1898." Mary Richie Mcguire (of Virginia Tech's STS Program) lead discussion.
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April 6, 2017
Jim Endersby, Orchid (U. Chicago, 2016). Discussion led by Rich Bellon (Department of History, Michigan State University).
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March 2, 2017The group discussed chapters 1 and 4 from former PACHS/CHSTM post-doc fellow Abe Gibson's new book, Feral Animals in the South: An Evolutionary History (Cambridge UP, 2016).
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February 2, 2017
Sigrid Schmalzer of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discussed sections of her book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016).
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December 1, 2016
The group discussed selections from Samuel Redman's Bone Rooms (Harvard, 2016).
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October 27, 2016
The group discussed two recent articles with their authors: "Ark and Archive: Making a Place for Long-Term Research on Barro Colorado Island, Panama," by Megan Raby of University of Texas, Austin and "The Right Tool and the Right Place for the Job: The Importance of the Field in Experimental Neurophysiology, 1880-1945" by Samantha Muka of the University of Pennsylvania.
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May 5, 2016
The group discussed Raf de Bont, Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Introduction, Chapter 1, and Conclusion.
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April 7, 2016
The group continued its semester theme of examining the decades of the twenties and the thirties. We read the introduction and chapters 2, 3 and 5 of Adam Shapiro's book titled Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Discussion was lead by Adam Shapiro.
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March 3, 2016
Our discussion centered on the Introduction, Chapters 1 and 4 of the new book by James Strick titled Wilhelm Reich, Biologist (Harvard University Press, 2015). We discussed Reich's polymathic and quite remarkable career as a scientist whose works were so controversial, that they were burned both by the Nazis and the US Government. The author James Strick joined us for the discussion.
Group Conveners
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Richard Shrake
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