Human Sciences (inactive)
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Upcoming Meetings
There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.
Past Meetings
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October 19, 2016
Greg Eghigian (Penn State) discussed the introduction to the forthcoming edited volume The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
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April 15, 2015
Erika Milam of Princeton University introduced her draft chapter, "Death of the Killer Ape: the 'New' Politics of Humans as Animals"
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March 18, 2015
Audra Wolfe, Independent Scholar, introduced an excerpt of Thomas Medvetz, Think Tanks in America (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
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February 18, 2015
Nadia Berenstein of the University of Pennsylvania introduced her paper, “Defining Flavor: Taste Panels and Sensory Research, 1930-1950"
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January 21, 2015
Rachel Walker of the University of Maryland and the Library Company of Philadelphia introduced her paper, "Character Detectives: Female Physiognomists in the early American Republic"
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December 17, 2014
Jason Oakes of UC-Davis introduced his draft chapter, "The Road to Tragedy: Garrett Hardin, the Systems Approach, and the Political Economy of Population Science"
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November 19, 2014
Whitney Laemmli of UPenn introduced a draft dissertation chapter "'Dance as the Measure of Man': Alan Lomax, Choreometrics, and the History of Humankind (1965-1985)"
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October 15, 2014
Greg Eghigian of Penn State introduced a draft of his paper "UFOs and Aliens as a Problem in the History of the Human Sciences"
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September 17, 2014
Erika Milam of Princeton University introduced selections from Aaron Panofky's Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics (Chicago, 2014).
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April 16, 2014
Jamie Cohen-Cole introduced the "Introduction" and chapter 5, "Scientists as the Model of Human Nature,†from his book, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature, Chicago 2014.
Group Conveners
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Richard Shrake
145 Members