Claudia Leal
Universidad de los Andes,
Bogotá, Colombia

"The Enigma of an Impossible Balance: Studying the Jungle in a Country at War"

Terence Keel
The Department of African American Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles

“Ghosts in the Machine: Christianity, Race, and the Haunting of Biological Science”

Marcy Norton
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

“Cacao and the Quetzal: Reflections on...

Marcos Cueto
Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Rio de Janeiro...

Gastón Gordillo,
Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

"Ambient Thickness: On the Atmospheric Materiality of the Anthropocene"... Read more about History of Science Seminars: Gastón Gordillo

Paul Ramirez,
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University

"Rumors, Speech Acts, and Medical Facts: An Oral History of Mexico's First Vaccination Campaigns"... Read more about History of Science Seminar: Paul Ramirez

Speaker: Gillian Osborne
(Harvard University Center for the Environment)
Title: Bioregion and Biodescription: Reading and Writing in Place

Speaker: Rosalyn LaPier
(Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Montana)
Title: Plants that Purify: The Natural and Supernatural History of Smudging

Speaker: Daniel Zizzamia
(Ziff Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment & Department of History)
Title: Beneath the Frontier: Fossils, Coal and Remaking the American West, 1800-1920

Speaker: Naomi Oreskes
(Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University)
Title: Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change

Speaker: Zachary Nowak,
(American Studies, Harvard University)​​​​​​
Title: Promiscuous Ponds

The Evolution Matters Lecture Series, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

James T. Costa, Professor, Department of Biology, Western Carolina University Executive Director, Highlands Biological Station, University of North Carolina

How have people thought about mental illness in different cultures, and are there positive aspects associated with it, thinking historically and scientifically? Should we think of mental illness as categorically different or as deviations from the normal healthy state? What measures other than pharmaceutical medicines can be helpful for maintaining positive mental health? Join us as we take a deep dive into the biological, historical and psychological aspects of mental illness.

A panel featuring: Prof. Anne Harrington (History of Science),
Prof....

Speaker: David S. Jones

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Title: “AIDS Origins: Can Stories that Don’t Tell Well Still Become History?"