Colloquia

Allan Brandt, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

"The Politics of Medical History: Reflections on the Cigarette Century"

Nicolás Wey-Gómez, Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University

“The Politics of Light:  Al-Kindi’s Optics and the Nature of Amerindians in Las Casas’s Apologética historia (1527-1561)”

Hannah Landecker, Rice University and Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (Visiting)

“From Messengers and Bodies to Signals and Cells:  Theories of Hormone Action, 1960 – 1975.”

NOTE: This colloquium  is co-sponsored with the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT, and will take place at MIT, Building E51-095, 70 Memorial Drive

Susan E. Lederer, Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine

“Insides Out: Organ Transplantation and the Renegotiation of Personal Identity in 20th Century America.”

Graduate Student Choice colloquium

Christopher Kelty, Rice University and Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (Visiting)

“Image, Text, Signal and Matter: Beyond the History of Hardware and Software”

This colloquium  is co-sponsored with the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT

Evelynn Hammonds, Department of the History of Science/African and African-American Studies, Harvard University

"The Science of Mixed Peoples:  Admixture, Genetics and Cultural Identity"

History of Science 2007-2008 Capstone Lecture

Martin Rudwick, Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
Cambridge University

“4004BC And All That: The Historicizing of Nature in the Science of Geology”

NOTE: This lecture will be held at 4:00pm in Science Center E; reception to follow immediately afterward.