Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Upcoming Events
HoS Colloquium: "Minds, Machines, and Managers: Capitalism and AI in Cold War America"
November 10, 2026
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EST
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TBA
Devin Kennedy is Assistant Professor of History and the Evelyn and Herbert Howe Bascom Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard and an AB from Princeton in...
Bios Talk: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - My Itinerary Toward a Historical Epistemology of the Life Sciences
November 13, 2026
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1:30PM - 3:00PM EST
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Virtual
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director emeritus at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He studied philosophy, linguistics, and biology in Tübingen and Berlin. His academic stations include Berlin, Stanford, Lübeck, and Salzburg. From...
AI Seminar: Elizabeth Lunbeck
December 1, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Science Center 469
Elizabeth Lunbeck begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. Registration required. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and by the Harvard Data Science...
Healing the World
How have people understood and managed human health in the past?
Tuesday and Thursday - 10:30-11:45 AM with Professors David Jones and Hannah Marcus
Digital Democracy
In the age of AI, what has happened to the dream of democracy, the faith that we can collectively govern ourselves?
Monday and Wednesday - 12:00-1:15 PM with Professor Marc Aidinoff
Solving Genuinely Hard Problems in Science
What can we do, as a society, to help make progress on solving the hardest problems in science?
Tuesday and Thursday - 10:30-11:45 AM with Professors Peter L. Galison, Jeff W. Lichtman, and Logan McCarty
Making the World: An Introduction to the History of Technology
Mondays and Wednesdays - 1:30-2:45 PM with Professors Victor Seow and Eric Gurevitch
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Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI
Faculty Seminar
How should we at Harvard make knowledge in the future?
