Venki Ramakrishnan
Senior Scientist, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (UK)
President of the Royal Society (UK)
2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Title: "The Quest for the Structure of the Biological Machine that Reads Our Genes"

... Read more about Harvard Science Book Talk: Venki Ramakrishnan

... Read more about Human Tissue Ethics in Anatomy, Past and Present: From Bodies to Tissues to Data

Ahmed Ragab, HDS Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, discusses his recent publication,
Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam.

Mark Jordan (HDS), Charles Stang (HDS), and Nancy Khalek...

Sophia Roosth
Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor in the History of Science

"The Quick and The Dead"

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Suman Seth
Science & Technology Studies,
Cornell University

Title: Difference and Disease: Seasoning Sickness and the Imaginative Geography of the British Empire.

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