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Logan Lounge: December 2005
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Sunday, December 04, 2005. November Final Score: ABDs 3, Ph.Ds 1. Congratulations to several current Penn graduate students who passed significant milestones in November:. Philip Cho successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Ritual and the Occult in Chinese Medicine and Religous Healing: The Development of Zhuyou Exorcism.". Posted by Jeremy @ 11:04 AM.
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Logan Lounge: February 2006
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Saturday, February 11, 2006. The Origins of Us (i.e. Academic Researchers). Have you ever wondered about where the hallowed traditions we associate with the modern research university- lectures, oral exams, written exams, research seminars, the Ph.D., getting a professorship, library catalogs- came from? University of Chicago Press, 2006). How can you resist?
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Logan Lounge: September 2006
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Sunday, September 10, 2006. Fall 2006 Workshop Schedule. For any curious alumni and friends of the Department, especially those who live near Philadelphia, below I am pasting the Fall 2006 workshop schedule. I understand it has been coordinated by Riki Kuklick this semester, and it looks like an excellent line-up:. Michael Lynch, Cornell University. Kathy Br...
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Logan Lounge: June 2006
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Thursday, June 01, 2006. The Neo-Institutionalist Turn in Sociology of Science. How is the neo-institutionalist approach different from contructivism? Otherwise, there is certainly the risk that neo-institutionalist big pictures will lack the historical and geographical subtlety required to account for variability over time and space. Joy Rohde Wins Prize.
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Logan Lounge: April 2006
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Thursday, April 27, 2006. I left my heart at MIT Press. Still, when the question came up of whether I'd think about sending a proposal for the end of cyberspace. Book to them, I thought: yeah, the computer science and design side would be a good fit, but my loyalty is still with the STS list. And do they try to do anything with that? Joy Rohde Wins Prize.
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Logan Lounge: May 2006
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Friday, May 05, 2006. Conference at Penn This Weekend. I probably should have posted this sooner, but just in case any alumni readers of this blog haven't heard yet, there is an exciting conference coordinated by Riki taking place this weekend at Penn, sponsored by the HSS Dept.:. Histories of the Human Sciences: Different Disciplinary Perspectives. Attendan...
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Logan Lounge: November 2005
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Monday, November 28, 2005. I just finished reading David Kaiser's new book, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. Like other recent books in what one might call "the paper turn" in the history of science- Andrew Warwick's Masters of Theory. Or Ursula Klein's Experiments, Models, Paper Tools. Perhaps there haven't been...
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Logan Lounge: October 2005
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday, October 25, 2005. Penn People at HSS/SHOT. For those who are attending the HSS/SHOT co-located meeting in Minneapolis (Nov. 3-6), below is a list of current and former Penn people on the program (apologies if I left anyone off! I've corrected the listing below to reflect this. SHOT 9:00-10:30 am, 1st paper: Jeremy Vetter, "Knowledge and the Mining B...
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Logan Lounge: March 2006
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A Collective Blog for Current and Former Members (and Friends! Of the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Thursday, March 09, 2006. Audra Wolfe is Now an "Editor-in-Chief". In an e-mail a few weeks ago, Penn HSS grad Audra Wolfe revealed that she is leaving Rutgers University Press to join the staff of the Chemical Heritage Foundation as Editor-in-Chief. Now she doesn't have to commute to New Jersey any more! Posted by Jeremy @ 11:06 AM. Joy Rohde Wins Prize.
