"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...

"Midlife Crisis: The Story of a Feminist Concept"

"What’s Real about Real-Time?: Engineering Responsive Computers from Whirlwind to Project Vanguard"

First meeting of the fall term for the Modern Sciences Working Group. A panel discussion featuring students and faculty discussing their recent research experiences.

Please RSVP by filling out this form. Lunch will be served if you RSVP before Monday, Sep 7.