Events, Spring 2012

• April 6 (HPS) - 12:30 p.m.* - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  Sandra Mitchell (Pittsburgh): "Representation Pluralism: the Case of Protein Folding." *Please note that this workshop will begin at 12:30 p.m., rather than 12:00 p.m. (noon).
  
  
• April 13 (HHS) - 4:00 p.m. - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  Elliott Sober (Wisconsin): "Naturalism and Evolutionary Theory."
  
  
• April 20 (HPS) - 4:00 p.m. *Alternate Room: Harper Memorial 130
  Harold Cook (Brown):  "Science and economies: Examples from the early modern period."
  
  
• Wednesday, April 25 (HHS) - 4:00 p.m. *Alternate Room: Harper Memorial 130
  Naomi Beck (Max Planck): "Be Fruitful and Multiply: Growth, Reason & Cultural Group Selection in Hayek & Darwin."
  
  
• April 27 (HHS) - 12:00 p.m. (noon) - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  Ana Olenina (Harvard): "Machinations of Affect: Labor Efficiency Studies, Reflexology, and Avant-garde Film Acting in 1920's Russia."
  
  
• April 27 (HPS) - 4:00 p.m. - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  Glen Weyl (Chicago): "Simon Kuznets and Jewish Economies."
  
  
• May 4 (HPS) - 12:00 p.m. (noon) - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  Oren Harman (Bar Ilan): "Biography as art: the incredible case of George Price and altruism."
  
  
• CANCELED - May 11 (HHS) - 4:00 p.m. - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  Randy Nesse (Michigan): "Maladaptation and natural selection (or: If natural selection is so great, why are we so vulnerable to disease?)." CANCELED - To be rescheduled at a later date.
  
  
• CANCELED - May 18 (HPS) - 12:00 p.m. (noon)*Alternate Room: Harper Memorial 130
  Jim Sparrow (Chicago): “Hans Morgenthau, postwar realism, and the problem of scientism.” CANCELED - To be rescheduled at a later date.
  
  
• May 25 (HHS) - 4:00 p.m. - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  George Levine (Rutgers): "Darwin among the non-scientists: some literary influence."
  
  
• June 1 (HPS) - 12:00 p.m. (noon) - John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
  Ken Waters (Minnesota): "Why Genetics Succeeds: A Causal Analysis of Explanatory and Investigative Practice."
  
  

About Workshops

HPS: History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, a CHSS and Fishbein Center joint workshop. The workshop meets at 12:00 p.m. (noon) in room 224 of the Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St.

HHS: History of Human Sciences Workshop, a Fishbein Center workshop. Papers are available at least a week in advance in the Fishbein Center (Social Science Bldg., Room 206, 1126 E. 59th Street) and sent out electronically. The workshop meets at 4:00 p.m. in Social Sciences Building, room 224.

For further information or for assistance in attending, please call the Fishbein Center office at (773) 702-8391.

Discussion in the Workshop in History and Philosophy of Science with Lorraine Daston

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Special Events and Conferences

The Human Sciences Workshops in Fall are devoted to Aspects of Darwin's accomplishment; they are being conducted under the title "Debating Darwin."  The Workshops are funded by the Fishbein Center, the President's Office, and the Templeton Foundation.  These workshops will be videoed and put on the Web.  For further information about this series and related events go to: http://darwin-chicago.uchicago.edu.

Past

Annual Max Planck-University of Chicago Workshop

• 2009: Human Science, Human Subjects
  
• 2008: Origins: The Historical Sciences in the Age of Darwin
  
• 2006: On Responsibility in the Human Sciences (Chicago)
  
• 2006: On Knowing in the Human Sciences (Berlin)

Darwin Conference 2009

Plenary speech at the 2009 Darwin Conference

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SOIT Readings

The Seminar on Important Things meets on alternate Fridays at noon in the Fishbein Center--the same days as HPS workshop. Members will be notified of the exact readings for discussion. Books will be available in the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.

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HPS Email List

Announcements of the above scheduled events are usually sent out in advance on our HPS email list. Announcements of other activities (e.g., social gatherings, ad hoc lectures, readings for the Seminar on Important Things) are also communicated via the HPS list. To subscribe to this list, go to https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/hps or email your request to the Director of the Fishbein Center.

This calender and the email list are maintained jointly by the Fishbein Center and the CHSS program.

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"Professor Simian (with dignity): 'Don't you know that descent means a decline, a fall?"
From The Flaming Sword, July, 1906.

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