ALL SESSIONS TAKE PLACE AT 4 P.M. IN 1117 FRANCIS SCOTT KEY HALL, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

October 14: Frederick Suppe (CHPS, University of Maryland)
"Hempel and the Problem of Provisos"

October 21: Michael David-Fox (Department of History, University of Maryland)
"Revisiting the Great Experiment: Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union for Cultural Ties Abroad"

October 28: Evelyn Fox Keller (Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Theory and Practice in Contemporary Biology"
** CHEMISTRY LECTURE HALL 1407
** UMCP DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES PRESENTATION

November 4: James A. Yorke (IPST, University of Maryland)
"Prognostication: Science of the Next Millennium"

November 9 (Tuesday): Stephen G. Brush (CHPS, IPST, University of Maryland)
"Why Was Relativity Accepted?"
** PHYSICS LECTURE HALL, 1410
** DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM

November 18: Joseph Auslander (Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland)
"Reuben Hersh on the Social Construction of Mathematics"

December 2: Marcel C. Lafollette (Graduate Program in Public Policy, George Washington University)
"Concatenation and Coordination for Mutual Interest: The Development of Scientific and Technical Book Publishing in the United States, 1900-1950"

December 9: John Suppe (Department of Geosciences, Princeton University)
"Citation Analysis and the Growth of Scientific Fields"

CHPS 25th Anniversary Celebration
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions take place on Thursdays 4:00 PM; in Room 1250, BIO/Psych Building

Miniseries: HPS 1975-2000, A Retrospective

February 24
Former Director HPS and Science Studies Programs, NSF

"Science Studies 1975-2000: The Rise and Fall of Social Constructionism"
STEPHEN G. BRUSH
CHPS, IPST, & History - University of Maryland, College Park

"Science and Technology Studies at the NSF"
MICHAEL SOKAL FACE
Director Science Studies program, NSF
April 20

OTHER COLLOQUIA

"Evolving an Evolutionary View of Human Quality"
STEVEN JAY GOULD
RONALD OVERMANN
Zoology, Geology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and History of Science, Harvard University
March 15
4:30 6:00 p.m., Inn and Conference Center, UMUC

"The Hearts of Our Children and the Obligations of our Nation" JONATHAN KOZOL
March 29
4:30 6:00 p.m., Chapel
Reception follows 6:00 7:00 p.m., Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall

Both colloquia are joint with the "Diversity and Community in American Life Colloquium Series"; cosponsored by the College of Education and EDPL Center for Education Policy and Leadership; the Offices of the President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, the Provost, Undergraduate Studies, and University Advancement; the Deans of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Education, Library and Information Services, Life Sciences, Continued and Extended Education, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business; the Departments of African American Studies, Counseling and Personal Services, Curriculum and Instruction, and Special Education; Phi Delta Kappa, University Honors, Center for Teaching Excellence, Maryland Commission for Celebration 2000, and SEE events

"Scientists, Anti-Communism, and Atomic Espionage:
The 1940"
April 6
History, UCLA

"Modeling Nature: Inverse Problems from AIDS to Venus."
FREDERICK SUPPE
JESSICA WANG
April 27
CHPS, Philosophy, and IPST, UMCP
1410 Physics Lecture Hall

Reception follows in 1412 Physics Lecture Hall

Joint with Distinguished Scholar -Teacher Lecture Series

The CHPS Colloquium Series is cosponsored by CHPS, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park.

See also:

* Quantum Information and Quantum Computing Lecture Series
* Colloquium Series at The Center for History of Recent Science at George Washington University

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://carnap.umd.edu/chps/
301-405-5691
hp26@umail.umd.edu