Department of the History of Science, Harvard University | Department of the History of Science

Upcoming Events

Exhibition Opening of Measurement on the Color Line: Scientific Instruments and the Making of Human Categories

October 16, 2026

11:00AM - 4:00PM EDT

Science Center 2nd FL Special Exhibitions Gallery

In Person

New Exhibition Measurement on the Color Line: Scientific Instruments and the Making of Human Categories Opens Friday, October 16; gallery is open 11:00–4:00 pm Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St, 2nd FL Special Exhibitions Gallery, Cambridge, MA 02138...

Measurement on the Color Line Exhibit Opening

Bios Talk: Hallam Stevens - Experiments with Life in China's Experimental City: BGI, DNA, and Shenzhen

October 16, 2026

1:30PM - 3:00PM EDT

Virtual

Hallam Stevens is an historian of science and technology whose work examines the intersections between the life sciences and information technologies. He is the author of Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics (2013), Biotechnology...

Hallam Stevens smiling with leaves in background

HoS Colloquium: "Sex, Drugs, and AI: On the Importance of Being Human"

October 27, 2026

3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT

Science Center 469

In Person

Noah Feldman is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Chair of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, all at Harvard University. He specializes in constitutional studies, with...