Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
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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...
Non-Tuesday HoS Colloquium: "The Enigma of Qian Xuesen: US, China, and the Geopolotics of Science from the Cold War to the Age of AI"
October 7, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Science Center 469
Zuoyue Wang, Professor History, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
HoS Colloquium: HoS Faculty Flash Talks by Professors Peter Galison, Naomi Oreskes, and Gabriela Soto Laveaga
October 13, 2026
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT
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Science Center 469
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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