Lydia Barnett
Department of History
Northwestern University

THIS EVENT POSTPONED
UNTIL FALL 2020

A panel discussion that will take Michael Gordin’s Scientific Babel as a point of departure to go into such issues as scientific translation and translingual practice, glocalizations of scientific universalism, and the prospects of decolonizing the history of science.... Read more about Panel Discussion: Scientific Babel and the Coherence of Region: Asia in the History of Science

Jonathan Kahn
Professor of Law and Biology
Northeastern University

Title: “Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice”

... Read more about History of Science Seminar: Jonathan Kahn

Trais Pearson
Department of History
Boston College

Title: "Charnel Knowledge and Imperial Power: Medico-Legal Science in Siam, c. 1855-1900."... Read more about History of Science Seminars: Trais Pearson

Professor David S. Jones

Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Faculty of Arts and Sciences and
the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard

... Read more about Old North Speaker Series: LECTURE + COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

Climate in Words and Numbers:
How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
 

Joyce Chaplin
Professor of Early American History
Harvard University

... Read more about MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

Kate Brown
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Title: “Controversy over Chernobyl Health Consequences: A case of slow...

Joanna Radin
(Yale University)

Title: “Rescaling Colonial Life: From the Indigenous to the Alien

Mar Hicks
(Illinois Institute of Technology)

Title: “History from the Margins: Trans and Queer Histories of Computing”

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

Felice Frankel
Research Scientist (MIT) and Science Photographer

... Read more about Harvard Science Center Lecture: Picturing Science and Engineering