Upcoming Events

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...

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: 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)...

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: 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...

Bios Talk: Paul Turner - Leveraging Evolution: Thinking in the Development of Phage Therapy

October 30, 2026

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1:30PM - 3:00PM EDT

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Virtual

Virtual

Dr. Paul Turner is the Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at Yale University, and faculty member in the Microbiology Graduate Program and in the School of Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. He obtained a BA in Biology...

AI Seminar: Jeff Lichtman

November 3, 2026

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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST

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Science Center 469

In Person

Jeff Lichtman begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. Registration required. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and by the Harvard Data Science...

Bios Talk: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - My Itinerary Toward a Historical Epistemology of the Life Sciences

November 13, 2026

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1:30PM - 3:00PM EST

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Virtual

Virtual

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director emeritus at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He studied philosophy, linguistics, and biology in Tübingen and Berlin. His academic stations include Berlin, Stanford, Lübeck, and Salzburg. From...

AI Seminar: Elizabeth Lunbeck

December 1, 2026

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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST

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Science Center 469

In Person

Elizabeth Lunbeck begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. Registration required. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and by the Harvard Data Science...

AI Seminar: Finale Doshi-Velez

February 2, 2027

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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST

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Science Center 469

In Person

Finale Doshi-Velez begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. Registration required. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and by the Harvard Data Science...

AI Seminar: Moira Weigel

March 2, 2027

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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST

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Science Center 469

In Person

Moira Weigel begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. Registration required. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and by the Harvard Data Science...

AI Seminar: Zoë Hitzig

April 6, 2027

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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT

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Science Center 469

In Person

Zoë Hitzig begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. Registration required. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and by the Harvard Data Science...