Past Events

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HoS Colloquia: Chakanetsa Mavhunga
April 3, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
Chakanetsa Mavhunga Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT "Kusika neRurimi rwaAmai: creating in the tongue of mother" This talk will be available over Zoom for HoS community members currently working or living remotely. REGISTER FOR ZOOM...

HoS Colloquia: Student Prospectus Presentations
March 27, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
Matt Goerzen, Kaitlin Smith, & Osaremen Okolo Prospectus Titles: Osaremen Okolo “The Rise and Fall of the “Public Health” Pharmacy: A History of Policy, Politics, and Racial Health Inequity in the United States” Matt Goerzen “The Vulnerability: Changing...

Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecture featuring Matthew L. Jones
March 5, 2025
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EST
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Harvard Loeb House Ballroom, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Matthew L. Jones Smith Family Professor of History Princeton University "The Society in the Algorithm: Netflix and the History of Machine Learning" This event is Free and Open to the Public. Reception to Follow Lecture Abstract From 2006 to 2009, the...

ArtsThursdays: The Power and Bias of Measurements
February 27, 2025
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5:00PM - 8:30PM EST
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Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Free Lecture & Conversation In Person & Online How have measuring systems shaped our understanding of people and the world? How can art help us grasp the complex legacies of such systems? The new exhibition Measuring Difference at the Collection of...

Global Health Research & Innovation Speaker Series
February 11, 2025
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10:00AM - 10:45AM EST
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Virtual Event
In Person
Eram Alam Assistant Professor of the History of Science,Harvard University "The History and Challenges of Immigrant Physicians in the US Healthcare System" Since the 1960s, the United States has relied on soliciting immigrant physicians to fill vacancies...

Book Talk: HoS Lecturer Dr. Erik Baker
January 22, 2025
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7:00PM - 8:00PM EST
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Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
In Person
Harvard Book Store welcomes Erik Baker—Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University—for a discussion of his new book Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, a sweeping new history of the changing meaning of...

HoS Colloquium: Leah DeVun

November 14, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EST
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Science Center 469
In Person
CANCELED. To be rescheduled for fall 2025. Leah DeVun Professor of History, Rutgers University “ The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender Before Modernity ” This talk will be available over Zoom for HoS community members currently working or living remotely.

HoS Colloquium: Eram Alam
October 24, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
Eram Alam Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University “Mobilizing Medicine” This talk will be available over Zoom for HoS community members currently working or living remotely.

HoS Colloquia: Pratik Chakrabarti
October 10, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
Pratik Chakrabarti NEH Cullen Chair in History and Medicine, University of Houston “ The Naked Pharaohs: Decolonizing the History of Science ” This talk will be available over Zoom for HoS community members currently working or living remotely.

HoS Colloquia: Emily Kern
September 26, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
Emily Kern Assistant Professor of the History of Science and the College, University of Chicago “ The Cradle of Humanity: Science and the Making of African Origins ” This talk will be available over Zoom for HoS community members currently working or...

2024 HistSci Alumni Book Talk
September 17, 2024
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
We are so excited to invite you to the inaugural HistSci Alumni Book Talk featuring Dr. Elizabeth Comen (a Harvard HistSci alumna!) speaking about her book. Seating is limited, so please RSVP by 3:00pm Monday, September 16 to hold your spot. The talk will...

HoS Colloquium: Matthew Stanley
September 12, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
Matthew Stanley Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York University “ Looking for Rocks in the Sky: How to do Fieldwork in Astrogeology ” This talk will be available over Zoom for HoS community members currently working or living...