The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate

http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2016-04-30-040000/biodiversity-livable-climate-conference

Title: "Late Lessons from Early Warnings about Hazards to Health and Environments"

David Gee, Institute of Environment, Health, and Societies, Brunel University, London.

http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2016-05-19-203000-2016-05-19-220000/harvard-center-risk-analysis-seminar

Title: Natural and Induced Earthquakes: The Hidden Threat to Large Cities in the United States

Marine Denolle, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, who will discuss how scientists are applying new tools to predict and model earthquakes.

http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/natural-and-induced-earthquakes-hidden-threat-large-cities-united-states

Title: "The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change."

The Energy History Project hosts Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics.

http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2016-05-02-201500/logic-urgency-and-promise-tackling-climate-change

Title: "Audile Scarification: Notes on the Normalization of Hearing Damage"

Jonathan Sterne,
Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University

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"Containment" asks the big question 'How do you warn future generations to avoid repositories that will remain lethal for 10,000 years or more?’ Co-Directed by Profs. Peter Galison and Robb Moss.

"Containment" asks the big question 'How do you warn future generations to avoid repositories that will remain lethal for 10,000 years or more?’ Co-Directed by Profs. Peter Galison and Robb Moss.

"Tactile Elements: Digital Imprints of the Raj"

Note change of time (Friday afternoon)

"Construction and Destruction: The first acoustics laboratory at Britain’s Building Research Station"

Joint session on approaches to the history of mathematics

"Navigating the St. Lawrence Seaway in a Canoe: Haudenosaunee Science, Sovereignty and Environmental Activism"

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"'Protecting the National Germ Plasm': Concepts of Defective Reproduction from Nineteenth-Century Embryology to American Eugenics"

"The whalers' natural history and natural historians' whales"

Abstract: The paper uses the iconoclasm of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as a point of departure to examine four types of images that deal with the problem of representing whales pictorially. I hope to show how the practical knowledge of whalers came...