Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Upcoming Events
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
Exhibition Opening of Measurement on the Color Line: Scientific Instruments and the Making of Human Categories
October 16, 2026
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11:00AM - 4:00PM EDT
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Science Center 2nd FL Special Exhibitions Gallery
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...
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?
