Joan Richards – Images of Mind: Reason, Logic and the Divine in Victorian England
Joan Richards – Images of Mind: Reason, Logic and the Divine in Victorian England
NYU Gallatin (Room 801) 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Nick Wilding – Forging the Moon; Or, How to Spot a Fake Galileo
Nick Wilding – Forging the Moon; Or, How to Spot a Fake Galileo
CUNY Graduate Center (Room 5114), 365 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Henry Cowles - How the Other Half Thinks: Human Science in the Gilded Age
Henry Cowles - How the Other Half Thinks: Human Science in the Gilded Age
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Marga Vicedo - Niko Tinbergen’s Research on Childhood Autism: Interpreting Gestures from Gulls to Children
Marga Vicedo - Niko Tinbergen’s Research on Childhood Autism: Interpreting Gestures from Gulls to Children
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Barbara Naddeo - Political Information and Science in the Age of Enlightenment
Barbara Naddeo - Political Information and Science in the Age of Enlightenment
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Jamie Pietruska - Weather Prophets, Frauds, and Counterfeiters from the Gilded Age to the New Era
Jamie Pietruska - Weather Prophets, Frauds, and Counterfeiters from the Gilded Age to the New Era
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Joseph Dauben – Science and Art in China
Joseph Dauben – Science and Art in China
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Paula Findlen - Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimenter
Paula Findlen - Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimenter
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Audra Wolfe - The Fight for Science and Freedom: Recovering the Role of Science in Cold War-Era Cultural Diplomacy
Audra Wolfe - The Fight for Science and Freedom: Recovering the Role of Science in Cold War-Era Cultural Diplomacy
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Fabian Kraemer - The Two Cultures Avant La Lettre: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Nineteenth Century
Fabian Kraemer - The Two Cultures Avant La Lettre: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Nineteenth Century
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Toshihiro Higuchi - Birth of the “Atomic Tuna”: Radioactive Fallout, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Politics of Radiological Standards in the Mid-1950s
Toshihiro Higuchi - Birth of the “Atomic Tuna”: Radioactive Fallout, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Politics of Radiological Standards in the Mid-1950s
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Sara Pritchard - Polluted Nightscapes: “Natural Night-Sky Brightness,” Skyglow, and the U.S. National Park Service
Sara Pritchard - Polluted Nightscapes: “Natural Night-Sky Brightness,” Skyglow, and the U.S. National Park Service
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Stephanie Dick - After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in Postwar United States
Stephanie Dick - After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in Postwar United States
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Neil Safier - Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective
Neil Safier - Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective
CUNY Graduate Center (Room C/197), 365 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Ann-Sophie Barwich - Scent Track: What can the History of Olfaction tell us about Theorizing in the Life Sciences?
Ann-Sophie Barwich - Scent Track: What can the History of Olfaction tell us about Theorizing in the Life Sciences?
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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John Tresch - Barnum, Bache, and Poe: American Science and the Antebellum Public
John Tresch - Barnum, Bache, and Poe: American Science and the Antebellum Public
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Michael J. Barany - Invidious Comparisons: International Politics, the Fields Medal, and the Past, Present, and Future of Mathematics, 1936-1966
Michael J. Barany - Invidious Comparisons: International Politics, the Fields Medal, and the Past, Present, and Future of Mathematics, 1936-1966
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Whitney Laemmli - Measured Movements: Weimar Germany, Labanotation, and the Choreography of Corporate Life
Whitney Laemmli - Measured Movements: Weimar Germany, Labanotation, and the Choreography of Corporate Life
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Monica Azzolini - Saints and Science in Early Modern Italy: Filippo Neri and Francesco Borgia as Patron Saints of Earthquakes
Monica Azzolini - Saints and Science in Early Modern Italy: Filippo Neri and Francesco Borgia as Patron Saints of Earthquakes
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Lynnette Regouby - Threshold: Generations of Change in Botanical Practice at the End of the Ancien Regime
Lynnette Regouby - Threshold: Generations of Change in Botanical Practice at the End of the Ancien Regime
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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María M. Portuondo - American Convergence: Science and Technology in Colonial Latin America
María M. Portuondo - American Convergence: Science and Technology in Colonial Latin America
CUNY Graduate Center (Room 9207), 365 5th Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Laine Nooney - Game Histories Otherwise: Notes from the “Little Silicone Valley”
Laine Nooney - Game Histories Otherwise: Notes from the “Little Silicone Valley”
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Sharrona Pearl - Face/Off or On? Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization
Sharrona Pearl - Face/Off or On? Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Lan Li - Building Bodies on Paper: The Curiosity of Meridians and Neurophysiology
Lan Li - Building Bodies on Paper: The Curiosity of Meridians and Neurophysiology
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Erika Milam - The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Erika Milam - The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Tillmann Taape - The Striped Layman: Visual Culture and the Politics of Vernacular Medical Knowledge in Early German Print
Tillmann Taape - The Striped Layman: Visual Culture and the Politics of Vernacular Medical Knowledge in Early German Print
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Dagmar Schäfer - Charted Territories and Unmapped Science: How Good Ideas Come Without a Place and Originator, a Mid-Ming Historian's View
Dagmar Schäfer - Charted Territories and Unmapped Science: How Good Ideas Come Without a Place and Originator, a Mid-Ming Historian's View
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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CANCELLED: Noam Andrews - Renaissance Geometry and the Platonic Solids
CANCELLED: Noam Andrews - Renaissance Geometry and the Platonic Solids
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Suman Seth - Pathologies of Blackness
Suman Seth - Pathologies of Blackness
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Hiro Hirai - Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of a Pseudo-Paracelsian Treatise in Publication History
Hiro Hirai - Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of a Pseudo-Paracelsian Treatise in Publication History
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Camille Robcis - Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France
Camille Robcis - Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Alex Wellerstein - The ‘Best-Kept Secret of the War’?: The Successes and Failures of the Manhattan Project’s Secrecy Regime
Alex Wellerstein - The ‘Best-Kept Secret of the War’?: The Successes and Failures of the Manhattan Project’s Secrecy Regime
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Andrew Stuhl - The Study of Ignorance and Macroanalysis: Drilling for Arctic Oil in the 1970s
Andrew Stuhl - The Study of Ignorance and Macroanalysis: Drilling for Arctic Oil in the 1970s
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Jonathan Metzl - Dying of Whiteness
Jonathan Metzl - Dying of Whiteness
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Thomas Dodman - What Nostalgia Was: The History of a Deadly Emotion
Thomas Dodman - What Nostalgia Was: The History of a Deadly Emotion
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Postponed: Rob Illife - The Triumph of the Scientific Imagination 1760-1900
Postponed: Rob Illife - The Triumph of the Scientific Imagination 1760-1900
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Evelynn Hammonds - Science Confronts Race and Racism in a Pandemic
Evelynn Hammonds - Science Confronts Race and Racism in a Pandemic
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Samuel K. Roberts - Persistent Plagues: Race, Space, and Epidemiological Thinking in Illicit Drug Use Research, 1950-1980
Samuel K. Roberts - Persistent Plagues: Race, Space, and Epidemiological Thinking in Illicit Drug Use Research, 1950-1980
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Elise Burton - Accidents of Geography: Historicizing Genetic Cartographies of the Middle East
Elise Burton - Accidents of Geography: Historicizing Genetic Cartographies of the Middle East
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Projit Mukharji - Religion as Race: Geneticizing Religious Difference in South Asia, 1947 -1971
Projit Mukharji - Religion as Race: Geneticizing Religious Difference in South Asia, 1947 -1971
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Juan Sebastián Gil-Riaño - Southern Racial Dilemmas: Brazilian Race Relations and Economic Development in the 1950s
Juan Sebastián Gil-Riaño - Southern Racial Dilemmas: Brazilian Race Relations and Economic Development in the 1950s
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Keith Wailoo - Poisoning Master: Drugs, Slave Knowledge, and Premeditation in a Tennessee Murder Trial
Keith Wailoo - Poisoning Master: Drugs, Slave Knowledge, and Premeditation in a Tennessee Murder Trial
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Wangui Muigai - Counting Deaths: A Historical Look at Black Infant Mortality
Wangui Muigai - Counting Deaths: A Historical Look at Black Infant Mortality
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Latif Nasser - How to Turn Your PhD into a Netflix Series
Latif Nasser - How to Turn Your PhD into a Netflix Series
Online
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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David Munns - "The Atom Goes to College": The Teaching Reactors that Trained the Atomic Age
David Munns - "The Atom Goes to College": The Teaching Reactors that Trained the Atomic Age
Online
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Robert Iliffe - ‘A Thousand Fictions’: Cultism and Delusional Metaphysics in the Newton-Leibniz Disputes
Robert Iliffe - ‘A Thousand Fictions’: Cultism and Delusional Metaphysics in the Newton-Leibniz Disputes
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Nuala Caomhanach - Ambassadors and Surrogates: Conserving Evolutionary Time in International Biodiversity Conservation Policy
Nuala Caomhanach - Ambassadors and Surrogates: Conserving Evolutionary Time in International Biodiversity Conservation Policy
Online
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Carolyn Roberts - Broken World Botany: Slavery and Natural Knowledge in the West African Slave Trading Zones
Carolyn Roberts - Broken World Botany: Slavery and Natural Knowledge in the West African Slave Trading Zones
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Madi Whitman - The Modeled Student
Madi Whitman - The Modeled Student
Online
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Pablo Gomez - Slave Trading and Medical Arithmetics in the Early Seventeenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
Pablo Gomez - Slave Trading and Medical Arithmetics in the Early Seventeenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Wenrui Zhao - “A Swarm of Mosquitoes in Front of My Eyes”: Vision and the Search for the Better Cures
Wenrui Zhao - “A Swarm of Mosquitoes in Front of My Eyes”: Vision and the Search for the Better Cures
Online
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Gerardo Con Diaz - The Playboy Suits: Pornography, Copyright Law, and the Making of the Online World, 1990-1998
Gerardo Con Diaz - The Playboy Suits: Pornography, Copyright Law, and the Making of the Online World, 1990-1998
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Angelo Caglioti - Science and Fascism, or Fascist Science? Meteorology, Empire, and anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy
Angelo Caglioti - Science and Fascism, or Fascist Science? Meteorology, Empire, and anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Elly Truitt - The Structure of Scientific Progress: The Case of Roger Bacon
Elly Truitt - The Structure of Scientific Progress: The Case of Roger Bacon
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Jimena Canales - Science and the History of Non-Existent Things
Jimena Canales - Science and the History of Non-Existent Things
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Sophia Roosth - The Intraterrestrials
Sophia Roosth - The Intraterrestrials
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Elaine Ayers - "Three Inches Deep of Wet Moss:" Observation, Labor, and the Politics of Shipping in Colonial Botanical Collecting
Elaine Ayers - "Three Inches Deep of Wet Moss:" Observation, Labor, and the Politics of Shipping in Colonial Botanical Collecting
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Rosanna Dent - Afterlives of A’uwẽ Scientific Objects: Affect and Care in Indigenous Histories of Science
Rosanna Dent - Afterlives of A’uwẽ Scientific Objects: Affect and Care in Indigenous Histories of Science
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Hannah Marcus - Tracking Long Lives and Quantifying Old Age in Early Modern Italy
Hannah Marcus - Tracking Long Lives and Quantifying Old Age in Early Modern Italy
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Tiffany Nichols - Finding Stillness: Navigating Conflicting Land Interests During the Site Selection of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Tiffany Nichols - Finding Stillness: Navigating Conflicting Land Interests During the Site Selection of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Online
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Ayah Nuriddin - Black Eugenics and the Struggle for Equality
Ayah Nuriddin - Black Eugenics and the Struggle for Equality
Online and in-person: Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Merlin Chowkwanyun - Public Health and Localism as Analytic Optic and Political Practice: The Case of the Mid-Century United States
Merlin Chowkwanyun - Public Health and Localism as Analytic Optic and Political Practice: The Case of the Mid-Century United States
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 527), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
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Meira Gold - Territorial Soils: Egyptology, Agriculture, and the Colonial Politics of Field Sites
Meira Gold - Territorial Soils: Egyptology, Agriculture, and the Colonial Politics of Field Sites
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 527), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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James Secord - Against Revolutions
James Secord - Against Revolutions
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 527), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Tunç Sen - Empire of Experts, Experts of Empire: Early Modern Ottomans and the Question of (Scientific) Expertise
Tunç Sen - Empire of Experts, Experts of Empire: Early Modern Ottomans and the Question of (Scientific) Expertise
Online and in-person: Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Mackenzie Cooley - The Trouble with Simples: A Professor’s Unfinished Pharmacopeia in Enlightenment Venice
Mackenzie Cooley - The Trouble with Simples: A Professor’s Unfinished Pharmacopeia in Enlightenment Venice
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 801), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Elise Mitchell - The Transformation of Smallpox Inoculation in the Era of Atlantic Slavery
Elise Mitchell - The Transformation of Smallpox Inoculation in the Era of Atlantic Slavery
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 801), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Marco Ramos - Woke Science: Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Awakening in Cold War Argentina
Marco Ramos - Woke Science: Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Awakening in Cold War Argentina
Online and in-person: Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Dan Bouk - Independent Accounts: How the NYC Budget Came to Look Like a Lever for Change
Dan Bouk - Independent Accounts: How the NYC Budget Came to Look Like a Lever for Change
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 801), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Cancelled: Meredith Alberta Palmer - New York History of Science Lecture
Cancelled: Meredith Alberta Palmer - New York History of Science Lecture
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 801), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Daniel J. Kevles - From Private and Insular to Public and Engaged: The History of Science in the Century Since Sarton
Daniel J. Kevles - From Private and Insular to Public and Engaged: The History of Science in the Century Since Sarton
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Avenue, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Gregory Radick - Disputed Inheritance
Gregory Radick - Disputed Inheritance
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 432), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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A Post-Mortem for the Anthropocene
A Post-Mortem for the Anthropocene
Online and in-person: Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Dana Burton - Crashing Success? Life and the NASA Ranger Missions to the Moon
Dana Burton - Crashing Success? Life and the NASA Ranger Missions to the Moon
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 432), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science
Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science
Online and in-person: Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Canceled: Stephen Casper - Shattered Reflections: A Cultural History of The Futurists and the Art-Science of Deceleration
Canceled: Stephen Casper - Shattered Reflections: A Cultural History of The Futurists and the Art-Science of Deceleration
Online and in-person: Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Emil Flatø - When Science Could Not Wait: Human-Earth Modeling and the Epistemics of Urgency
Emil Flatø - When Science Could Not Wait: Human-Earth Modeling and the Epistemics of Urgency
Online and in-person: Gallatin School (Room 527), New York University, 1 Washington Place, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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