Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

2020 Oct 06

Contagion: COVID-19, the Outbreak Narrative, and Why We Need to Change the Story

6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location:
Online Event
Priscilla Wald, PhD.
R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies,
Duke University

First in the seminar series "Critical Health Humanities," sponsored by...
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2020 Sep 16

Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design

3:15pm
Location:
Online
"Lessons from a Pandemic: Solutions for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis."

This symposium will focus on applying what we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and laying a roadmap on the role engineers and scientists can play in addressing the climate emergency. Prof. Naomi Oreskes will be speaking alongside Michael E. Mann.

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2020 Sep 15

Boston Medical Library Estes Lecture: Prof. David S. Jones

7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location:
Online Event
David S. Jones
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine

"History in an Epidemic: The Puzzles of COVID-19"

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2020 Sep 11

Race, The Power of an Illusion Screening + Panel

2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
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Race--The Power of an Illusion is an award-winning three-part docuseries that provides a comprehensive and nuanced view of the history and uses of race...
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2020 Sep 04

Harvard Science Book Talk: Rita Colwell, 'A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science'

7:00pm

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2020 Mar 19

Panel Discussion: Scientific Babel and the Coherence of Region: Asia in the History of Science

2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Science Center 469
A panel discussion that will take Michael Gordin’s Scientific Babel as a point of departure to go into such issues as scientific translation and translingual practice, glocalizations of scientific universalism, and the prospects of decolonizing the history of science.... Read more about Panel Discussion: Scientific Babel and the Coherence of Region: Asia in the History of Science
2020 Mar 12

History of Science Seminar: Lydia Barnett

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Science Center 469
Lydia Barnett
Department of History
Northwestern University

THIS EVENT POSTPONED
UNTIL FALL 2020
2020 Mar 05

History of Science Seminar: Pablo Gomez

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Science Center 469
Pablo Gomez
Department of History
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: “Enslaved Histories: Value, Risk, and...
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2020 Feb 20

History of Science Seminar: Jonathan Kahn

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Science Center 469
Jonathan Kahn
Professor of Law and Biology
Northeastern University

Title: “Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice”

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2020 Feb 13

MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture: Professor Anne Harrington

5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Pound Hall Room 101 (Harvard Law School), 1536 Massachusetts Avenue

Title: The 1980s Biological Revolution in Psychiatry: What Really Happened and What Really Happened Next

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Contagion: COVID-19, the Outbreak Narrative, and Why We Need to Change the Story

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Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design

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"Lessons from a Pandemic: Solutions for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis."

Boston Medical Library Estes Lecture: Prof. David S. Jones

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David S. Jones
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine

"History in an Epidemic: The Puzzles of COVID-19"

Race, The Power of an Illusion Screening + Panel

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Harvard Science Book Talk: Rita Colwell, 'A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science'

Panel Discussion: Scientific Babel and the Coherence of Region: Asia in the History of Science

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History of Science Seminar: Lydia Barnett

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History of Science Seminar: Pablo Gomez

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History of Science Seminar: Jonathan Kahn

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MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture: Professor Anne Harrington

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"Lessons from a Pandemic: Solutions for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis."

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