Omar Nasim,

Professor of History of Science, University of Regensburg, Germany

“The Cost of 'Pretty Pictures':
An English Controversy That Threatened the Carte du Ciel"

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Benjamin Wilson

Assistant Professor of the History of Science

“Strange Stability: Strategists, Scientists, and the Making of the Cold War”

This talk will be available over Zoom for DHS community members currently working or living remotely.

Hasok Chang

Professor of History & Philosophy,
University of Cambridge

“Pragmatist Epistemology for Historians of Science"

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Climate in Words and Numbers:
How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
 

Joyce Chaplin
Professor of Early American History
Harvard University

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Kate Brown
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Title: “Controversy over Chernobyl Health...

Felice Frankel
Research Scientist (MIT) and Science Photographer

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Nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture, Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African American women working at NASA,...

Brendan J. Meade, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Daniel Gilbert, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, and Scott Kuindersma, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Computer Science, will talk about natural disasters, how to predict them, why we aren't properly concerned about risks of this...

Speaker: Naomi Oreskes
 
Scientists are often reluctant to speak in public on contested issues, for fear that this will “politicize” their science and have a negative impact on their credibility.  In this talk, I examine these concerns,...

Roy Scranton
Assistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (2015)

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (...

Title: "Characterization of black holes with gravitational waves,"