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

"The Quick and The Dead"

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Christopher Phillips
Assistant Professor, Department of History,
Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Scouting and Scoring: Baseball as Data-based Science

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Claudia Leal
Universidad de los Andes,
Bogotá, Colombia

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

Nicole Nelson
Department of History
University of Wisconsin, Madison

"When Results Disagree: Cultures of Complexity & the Reproducibility Crisis"

Eden Medina,
School Of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering,
Indiana University

"Unmaking Truth After Dictatorship: Science, Memory, and the Disappeared"... Read more about History of Science Seminars: Eden Medina

Ahmed Ragab, 
Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School

"Islam as a Postcolony: Science, History and Modernism in the Making of Ethnoreligious Identities"

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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

Does compression have a history?

Alongside a cognitive challenge of “too much to know,” information overload poses a physical challenge of “too much to store.” Indeed, the possibilities of “big data” today are predicated on technologies that compress data into ever “smaller” sizes. On the one hand, major libraries such as the NYPL, coping with spatial shortage, have increasingly emphasized the provision of digital resources – shifting physical collections off site, and in the process sparking heated debates with researchers. On the other hand, the possibilities of digital...

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....

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

Speaker: Naomi Oreskes
 
Scientists are often reluctant to speak in public on contested issues, for fear that this will “politicize” their science and have a negative impact on their credibility.  In this talk, I examine these concerns,...

Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series

Lee D. Baker, Dean of Academic Affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Mrs. A. Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

Frederic Ward Putnam, one...

Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series

J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director, Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project, Duke University

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the...