Marcy Norton
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

“Cacao and the Quetzal: Reflections on...

Warwick Anderson,
Department of History,
University of Sydney

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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"

... Read more about History of Science Seminar: Ahmed Ragab

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: 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

Nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture, Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African American women working at NASA, who served as the brains...

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

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 of the Peabody Museum’s...

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 Guinea Coast, the term “fetish...

Speaker: Daniel Wikler (HSPH, Ethics and Population Health)

Speaker: Kenneth Oye (MIT, Political Science)