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Brown Bag Lectures (BBLs)

Brown Bag Lectures (BBLs) are a series of weekly, informal talks on the history of chemistry or related subjects, including the history and social studies of science, technology, and medicine. Based on original research (sometimes still in progress), these talks are given by local scholars for an audience of CHF staff and fellows and interested members of the public.

The Brown Bag Lecture Series is a project of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and the Othmer Library of Chemical History.

 

Winter/Spring 2013 BBLs

• February 5, 2013
  Ann Robinson, “Early Periodic Tables of the Elements: Classification, Visualization, and the Periodic Law”
• February 12, 2013
  TL Hill and Ram Mudambi, “Guilds and Organizational Change: Contested Logics in the Management of Innovation at Rohm and Haas”
• February 19, 2013
  Max Liboiron, “Defining Pollution in the Early Twentieth Century: Allowable Limits and Natural Thresholds”
• February 26, 2013
  Donna Bilak, “The Allegorical Laboratory: Michael Maier’s Alchemical Emblem Book Atalanta fugiens (1617), and the Art of Technology”
• March 5, 2013
  Laura Kalba, “Movement, Spark, and Color: A Short History of Fireworks”
• March 12, 2013
  No BBL
• March 19, 2013
  Victoria Lee, “Pure Culture: Traditional Industry and Microbial Studies in Early Twentieth-Century Japan”
• March 26, 2013
  Cameron Strang, “Geology, Slavery, and Sectionalism in the 1830s Gulf South”
• April 2, 2013
  Henry Cowles and Michael Barany, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard”
• April 9, 2013
  Andrew Butrica, “Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884): Chemistry, Industry, Labor, and the French Bourgeoisie”
• April 16, 2013
  Carolina Malagon, “Affinity and Self-Experiment: J. W. Ritter’s Galvanic Poetics”
• April 23, 2013—CANCELLED!
  
• April 30, 2013
  Ben Gross, “The Rise of the Digital Indicator: A Story in Seven Segments”
• May 7, 2013
  Tuna Artun, “Guiding the Elect: A Textual History of Ottoman Alchemy in the Eighteenth Century”

For information on past BBLs, please visit the page below or contact bbl@chemheritage.org.