History of Science, Technology, the Environment, and Medicine Colloquium, Fall 2025

HSTEM events will be held on Fridays from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in GAR 4.100

5 Sept. — John Handel (Baylor) — “Finance at Telegraphic Speed: Infrastructure, Politics, and the Material Limits of Global Finance, 1840s–1920s

19 Sept. — Jana Weiss (UT–Germanic Studies) — “Barrels of Knowledge: The Transatlantic Circulation of Scientific Brewing in 19th-Century America”

17 Oct. — Kelly McDonough (UT-Spanish & Portuguese) — “Embodied, Predictive, and Didactic: Nahua Science in Book XI of the Florentine Codex”

 

Additional events of interest, also to be held in GAR 4.100:

Thurs., 25 Sept., 2:00 pm — Mark Stoll (Texas Tech), Erika Bsumekvv(UT-History) , Josh Frens-String (UT-History) , and C. J. Alvarez (UT–Mexican American and Latina/o Studies) — IHS Roundtable: “Environmental History”

Mon., 29 Sept., 3:00 pm — Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf (UNT) — IHS talk: “‘Silk-Stocking Aristocrats’: The Texas War on Higher Education and the Fate of Eugenics in the Lone Star State”

Mon., 3 Nov., 3:00 pm — John Soluri (Carnegie Mellon) — Latin American History Workshop: “Reproducing Animals in Latin American History and Historiography”

Mon., 17 Nov., 12:00 noon — Erika Bsumek (UT-History) — IHS talk: “Cultivating Influence: Women, Plants, and Sowing Seeds of Social Influence in the American West”

Thurs., 20 Nov., 2:00 pm — Julie Cohn (Rice) — IHS talk: “History of the Texas Electric Grid”