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Monday, October 5, 2026, 12:00 pm EDT
Doing History of Science
Consortium Working Group
Monday, October 5, 2026, 2:00 pm EDT
Beauty Studies in the Premodern World
Consortium Working Group
Monday, October 5, 2026, 2:00 pm EDT
From “Needham Question” to the Conundrum of Medicine in Traditional China: An STS approach
Wen-Hua Kuo
University of Toronto
Monday, October 5, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
Dissecting Salvation: Conjoined Twins, Medicine, and the Soul in Early Modernity
Erica Passoni
Princeton University
Monday, October 5, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
The Factory or the Field? Slave-Based U.S. Cotton Emissions, the Industrial Revolution, & the Birth of the Climate Change
Eric Herschthal
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 8:00 am EDT
Contagion, Culture & the Global South
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 10:00 am EDT
History of Astronomy
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 8:00 am EDT
Early Career Scholars Workshop Series
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 10:30 am EDT
Science in Frozen Environments
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 11:00 am EDT
Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry
Alan D. Meyer
University of Manchester

Friday, October 2, 2026, 1:30 pm EDT
Bios Talk: - Forms of Life or Chemicals? Microbes and the US Regulation of Biotechnology
Angela N. H. Creager
Harvard University
Friday, October 2, 2026, 12:00 pm EDT
Collections and Collecting
Consortium Working Group
Friday, October 2, 2026, 11:00 am EDT
Craft, Technology, and Material Culture in Early Modern Asia
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 2:00 pm EDT
Health and the Urban Environment
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 11:00 am EDT
Collection Ecologies
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 6:00 pm EDT
The United States of Disaster: Disaster Science in America Since 2001
Scott Knowles
Columbia University
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 6:00 pm EDT
Forged at Sea, Born in Philadelphia: The History and Horizons of Navy Medicine
Brian L. Feldman
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
Prescribed Silence: Understanding the Long-Term Impact of Harassment and Retaliation in Nursing
Karissa Haugeberg
Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00 am EDT
Early Career Scholars Workshop Series
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 12:00 pm EDT
Common Airs, Individual Remedies: Environment and Health in Tenth-Century West Asia
Elaine Van Dalen
Columbia University

Monday, October 5, 2026, 2:00 pm EDT
From “Needham Question” to the Conundrum of Medicine in Traditional China: An STS approach
Wen-Hua Kuo
University of Toronto
Monday, October 5, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
Dissecting Salvation: Conjoined Twins, Medicine, and the Soul in Early Modernity
Erica Passoni
Princeton University
Monday, October 5, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
The Factory or the Field? Slave-Based U.S. Cotton Emissions, the Industrial Revolution, & the Birth of the Climate Change
Eric Herschthal
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 11:00 am EDT
Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry
Alan D. Meyer
University of Manchester
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 4:00 pm EDT
Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution Book Launch Event and Discussion
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
University of Toronto
Thursday, October 8, 2026, 6:00 pm EDT
Meet & Geek: Strange Girls: Life, Love, and Disability in the American Freak Show
Kim Kelly
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Saturday, October 10, 2026, 9:30 am EDT
"Go for TLI": How NASA put Astronauts on the Moon and Returned Them Safely to Earth
Eric Ward
Linda Hall Library
Monday, October 12, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
The Ecology of Land Disputes in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic
Zoe Zimmermann
Princeton University
Monday, October 12, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
A Scattershot of Anticolonial Thought
Kevin Duong
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 4:30 pm EDT
Psychic Income: Irving Fisher and the Economics of Time at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
William Deringer
Princeton University
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
Extinction in Blumenbach’s Natural History
Jeremy Schneider
Johns Hopkins University
Friday, October 16, 2026, 1:30 pm EDT
Bios Talk: - Experiments with Life in China's Experimental City: BGI, DNA, and Shenzhen
Hallam Stevens
Harvard University
Monday, October 19, 2026, 9:00 am EDT
Artefacts XXXI: Trust and Objects
Science History Institute
Monday, October 19, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
The Fragile: A Social and Emotional History of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
A. Tunç Şen
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 12:00 pm EDT
Hope in the Dark: How a Daring Team of Sexologists Built the World’s First Trans Clinic in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Brandy Schillace
University of Manchester
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
“Much stressed with…pain”: Privacy, Surveillance, and the Making of Marginalized Healing Spaces in Revolutionary New England
Sarah Pearlman Shapiro
American Philosophical Society
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 6:00 pm EDT
American Sign Language Tour of the Mutter Museum
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Monday, October 26, 2026, 12:00 pm EDT
The Political Economy of Rangeland Degradation and Conservation: Evidence from Namibia
Max Mauerman, Veno Tjiseua,
Columbia University
Monday, October 26, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
The Pineys and the Asylum
Adam Mohr
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 6:30 pm EDT
The Tin Centuries: Technology and Statecraft in Qing China
Kyoungjin Bae, Robyn d'Avignon, Rebecca Karl, Dorothy Ko, Yijun Wang
Columbia University in the City of New York
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The New York Academy of Medicine
The New York Academy of Sciences

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