Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Upcoming Events
Bios Talk: Angela Creager - Forms of Life or Chemicals? Microbes and the US Regulation of Biotechnology
October 2, 2026
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1:30PM - 3:00PM EDT
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Virtual
Angela N. H. Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science and chair of the Department of History at Princeton University. Author of Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2013)...
Gary King: When AI Makes Each of Us Better & All of Us Worse (and what to do about it)
October 6, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Science Center 469
This seminar is at capacity. Register to join the waitlist. Gary King begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. His talk is titled "When AI Makes Each of Us Better & All of Us Worse (and...
Bios Talk: Hallam Stevens - Experiments with Life in China's Experimental City: BGI, DNA, and Shenzhen
October 16, 2026
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1:30PM - 3:00PM EDT
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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...
Burning Books, Fighting Facts
With Professor Naomi Oreskes on Monday and Wednesday at 12:00-1:15 pm
Science and the Quest for Consciousness
With Professor Anne Harrington on Thursday at 12:00-2:45 pm
Nature on Display
With Professor Hannah Marcus and Joshua Gorman, Executive Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments on Wednesday at 3:00-5:45 pm
Science and Technology of the Self
With Professor Rebecca Lemov on Friday at 9:45-11:45 am
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Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI
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How should we at Harvard make knowledge in the future?
