History Department Event Details

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"Criticism and the Circulation of News: The Scholarly Press in the Late Seventeenth Century"
A Mellon/White Workshop

Speaker: Tom Broman

Thursday, September 24, 2009
3:00 PM
SLIS Conference Room (4246 Helen C. White)

Sponsored by: Mellon/White Workshop on Science and Print Culture

Please join the Mellon/White Workshop on Science and Print Culture for a discussion of Professor Tom Broman’s paper, “Criticism and the Circulation of News: The Scholarly Press in the Late Seventeenth Century.” For a copy of Professor Broman’s paper, please contact Florence Hsia at <fchsia@wisc.edu> or 262-3971.

Professor Broman is Professor of History of Science and Medical History and Bioethics at UW-Madison and Chair of the History of Science Department. He is interested in the history of early modern science and medicine and has devoted much of his recent research to the origins and early history of the periodical press. His publications include Science and Civil Society, co-edited with Lynn K. Nyhart (Chicago, 2002); “On the Epistemology of Criticism. Science, Criticism and the German Public Sphere, 1760–1800,” in Jörg Schönert (ed), Literaturwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsforschung (Tübingen, 2000), 6–26; “The Habermasian Public Sphere and Science in the Enlightenment,” History of Science 36 (1998): 123-49; and The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820 (Cambridge, 1996).

This program is part of the A.W. Mellon Foundation/Helen C. White Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison with support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the College of Letters and Science.