Holmes Workshop Series

The Holmes Workshop Series aims to encourage scholarly discussions of ongoing research among graduate students and faculty members at Yale working on projects related to the history of science and medicine, while fostering a sense of community spirit and collegiality among members of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. It is named after Dr. Frederic L. Holmes, former chairman of the Program.

Holmes workshops run from 4:30-6:00 on certain Mondays throughout the fall and spring semesters (see schedule). Presenters are encouraged to pre-circulate their papers or chapters when possible.

Academic Year 2007-2008 Holmes Workshop Series

Fall

September 10: Heather Varughese
Translating Leprosy: Public Education as a Means to Fight Stigmatization, 1931-1960

September 24: Mary Ellen Leuver
Concepts of health in the American West: A Case Study from the Resort Town of Colorado Springs, Colorado

October 8: Todd Olszewski
Diet-Heart: Controversy and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, 1947-1962

November 5: Ziv Eisenberg
When Communism was Contagious: Germ Fear and the First Red Scare

December 3: Paul Shin
Irish Milk: Purity, Whiteness, and Citizenship in Antebellum New York City

December 10: Shae Trewin, (Collection Manager, Historical Scientific Instruments Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)
A Case Study in Cataloging: Robert Yerkes and his Multiple Choice Apparatus (to be held at the Peabody Museum)

Spring

January 14: Megan Glick
Evolutionary Narratives and the Whitening of the “Human Race”

February 4: Brendan Matz
The Art, Science, and Business of Livestock Breeding in Germany between the Wars

February 18: Julia Irwin
“Happy Childhood the World Over”: Junior Red Cross Strategies for Foreign Relations in the 1920s

March 3: Jung K. Lee
Palatable Science: On the science of cooking at the turn of the twentieth century

March 31: Cecilia Cardenas-Navia
Lewis M. Terman, Alfred C. Kinsey, and the Construction of Male Homosexuality: An Academic Rivalry between Two Sex Researchers, 1925-1948

April 14: Matt Gunterman
Does God Really Give a Damn? The Germ and the Embryo: Episodes of Dissonance between American Medicine and Religion