Past Events

HoS Colloquium: "Sex, Drugs, and AI: On the Importance of Being Human"

October 27, 2026

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3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT

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Science Center 469

In Person

Noah Feldman is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Chair of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, all at Harvard University. He specializes in constitutional studies, with...

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

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...

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

In Person

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...

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

In Person

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

In Person

Zuoyue Wang, Professor History, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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

In Person

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: 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

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)...

HoS Colloquium- History of Science on Screen: A Roundtable on Practice and Impact

September 22, 2026

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3:30PM - 5:30PM EDT

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Harvard Science Center Building, Hall D

In Person

"History of Science on Screen: A Roundtable on Practice and Impact" A trio of renowned historians of science and the environment come together to speak about how film allows them to tell stories differently. They will screen parts of their films while...

Bios Talk: Brandon Ogbunu - The Rules of Genome Engineering: Lessons from History and Speculative Fiction

September 18, 2026

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1:30PM - 3:00PM EDT

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Virtual

Virtual

C. Brandon Ogbunu is an Associate Professor (Tenure) in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, and a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in...

George Aumoithe: The Hierarchy of Civil Rights Law, the Destruction of Court Records, and the Dilemma of Writing a Legal History of an 'Insignificant' Hospital Closure Case

May 5, 2026

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1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT

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CGIS South S020, Level S (Sub-basement), Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St.

In Person

History of Science Colloquium: George Aumoithe, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Dmitri Levitin: Isaac Newton at University: A Remarkable New Source, and a New Vision of Late 17th-Century Intellectual Culture

April 28, 2026

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3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT

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Harvard Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)

In Person

History of Science Colloquium - PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION AT BOYLSTON HALL 110 (Fong Auditorium): Dmitri Levitin, Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford

The 2026 History of Science Frederick A. Jakobiec Public Lecture ft. Alondra Nelson

April 9, 2026

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4:00PM EDT

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Reception to Follow I Harvard Loeb House

In Person

Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecturer: Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies