News & Events
Coming soon to
The History of Science Colloquia Series
Michelle Murphy
Department of History,
University of Toronto
"Time in the
Data of Cholera"
Tuesday, February 28
4:00PM • Science Center 469
Light refreshments to be provided.
MAKING HISTORY & The Incubator Series
Delivering New Ideas
"So you really think another me might exist in an alternate universe?
Fascinating...tell me more!"
Please join us for a new initiative in the department, the Incubator & Making History workshop series.
The Incubator Series is a number of informal, work-in-progress sessions, in which visitors and members of the department can share and discuss ideas.
Making History examines recent transformations in science, technology, and medicine likely to be of interest to future historians, and the kinds of frameworks being adopted to analyze the past and the making of the present.
All sessions will take place in Science Center Rm 252, from 12:00 - 1:30pm.
Month |
Date |
Details |
|---|---|---|
February (Incubator) |
16 |
Frederic Zagury (Paris) |
March (Incubator) |
1 |
Michael Pettit (York University, Toronto) |
March (Incubator) |
22 |
Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University) "The Material Turn in the Humanities" |
April (Incubator) |
5 |
Marga Vicedo (University of Toronto) "Becoming Human" |
April (Making History) |
19 |
Barry Werth |
May (Incubator) |
3 |
Aud Sissel Hoel (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) "Technics of Thinking: Image, Word, Number" |
Take a look at SYNTHESIS, Issue 3
Harvard's peer-reviewed undergraduate journal
in the history of science
In 2009, a group of Harvard students created a new journal called Synthesis. They endeavor to provide a venue to further the collaboration between undergraduate history of science institutions, and each year expand their readership to students and faculty in programs involving the history of philosophy of science, technology, and medicine. Issue 3 is dedicated to research on the history of medicine and pharmaceuticals, and features an interview with one of the history of science’s pioneers, Dr. Everett Mendelsohn, and a review of the new book featuring an artistic display of photographs and stories of historical science artifacts, Lost in Learning.
Questions, comments may be directed to harvardsynthesis at gmail.com.
Download a Copy of Synthesis, Issue 3
News
November 10, 2011
CHSI Curator Sara Schechner explains Harvard's vital role in standardizing timekeeping in 19th century America in a recent Harvard/Science article in the Harvard Gazette.
October 26, 2011
Dean Michael Smith touts Harvard's activities around the Mark I, the first programmable computer in the U.S., portions of which are in the CHSI.
September 13, 2011
David Jones,
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine (and new addition to the History of Science faculty!) profiled in the Harvard Gazzette.
NOW ON SALE!
Ivory Diptych Sundials 1570 - 1750 catalogues a portion of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments sundial collection, the largest such collection in North America.
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