The Program in History of Science at Princeton University trains students to analyze science, medicine, and technology in historical and cultural context.
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Monday, April 24
Can a Simple Test in Bacteria Identify Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Humans?
By Angela N. H. Creager with comments by Austen Van Burns
https://t.co/TaagAHJa86
April 17, 2023
Building a Socialist Pharmaceutical Industry: The Transnational Making of Antibiotics in Mao’s China
By Yang Li with comments by Alice Hong
🔗https://t.co/4pASgAskCd
April 10, 3:00pm
Dichotic Listening, the Cocktail Party Problem, and the Filter Theory of Attention
By D. Graham Burnett with comments by Anin Luo
https://t.co/nDkZyorigB
Congratulations to Kathryn Maxson Jones HOS '21! She is one of the 2023 winners of the Dissertation Prize from the Division of the History of Science and Technology, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
https://t.co/rXLfOxFKPj
April 3, 3:00pm
Prospectus by Alice Hong; comments Jonathan Victor Baldoza
Book Proposal by Michael D. Gordin; comments Julian Chehirian
https://t.co/3hhEpC5pwo
March 27, 3:00pm
Marketing a Socio-Legal Imaginary:
Technology, Freedom, and Empire in the Global Cold War, 1962
By Haris Durrani with comments by Jack Klempay
🔗https://t.co/RGuFHhvHVi
March 20, 3:00pm
“Reagan Science Policy Versus the Atari Democrats”: Bipartisan Convergence Around Industrial Policy and Technology Policy, 1983-1984
By Julia Marino with comments by Beth Fricker
https://t.co/xsOcbjxe3U
Justine Holzman, HOS graduate student, featured in the Princeton University article "Princeton on ice: Documenting climate change at the ends of the Earth" about Anne McClintock's research on melting glaciers.
https://t.co/nowLSkp9Vu
March 6, 2023
Smallpox Inoculation in Slavery and Freedom: Toward an Atlantic History of the Jamaican Smallpox Epidemic of 1768
By Elise Mitchell with comments by Anna Speyart
🔗https://t.co/xMc3Y3I0CB
February 27, 2023
Matters of record: film, paper, and the “bureaucratic media” of radiation protection at nuclear test sites
By Jack Klempay with comments by Iason Stathatos
🔗https://t.co/06QymRlweD
March 1 at 4:30pm
Jeremy Blatter joins us for his colloquium on"Re-Animating Experimental Psychology: Media Archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the 'Testing the Mind' Film Series"
🔗details & rsvp: https://t.co/NdsD57YBm2
February 20, 2023
The Spectroscopic Imagination and the Occult in the writings of Camille Flammarion
By Jonas Staehelin with comments by Chandler Allen
🔗https://t.co/b7Q7Y9Ej4f
Acceptance and Simplicity: Understanding Mathematical and Physical Responses to Einstein's Theories of Relativity
By Elisabeth Fricker with comments by Tiffany Nichols
🔗https://t.co/5lNp30kCTa
TODAY: Angela Creager @PrincetonHOS will speak at our first spring ’23 HMEI Faculty Seminar!
12:30 in Guyot 10 w/ lunch at noon in the Guyot Atrium. Non-PUID holders, register 👉 https://t.co/M28ovW5Mhm
February 6, 2023
Quiet Down: Physicists’ Attempts to Remove Preexisting Land Uses from Candidate Sites for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
By Tiffany Nichols with comments by Julia Marino
🔗https://t.co/fnBs8UqXQx
Join us in person for the History of Science Annual Workshop!
Abundance and Loss: Narratives of Diversity Across the Natural and Human Sciences
🔗Register at https://t.co/ZXSHRDwfUt.
TODAY at 4:30pm
Courtney Stephens (@Courtneycolt) joins us for a screen of the archival film TERRA FEMME with a live narration.
🔗details & rsvp: https://t.co/FVHdllR5iB
Join us in person for the History of Science Annual Workshop!
Abundance and Loss: Narratives of Diversity Across the Natural and Human Sciences
🔗Register at https://t.co/ZXSHRDwfUt.