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Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 8:00 am EST
Early Career Scholars Workshop Series
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:30 am EST
Science in Frozen Environments
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
History of Anthropology
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 5:45 pm EST
Confessions of a Cosmic Affairs Correspondent
Dennis Overbye
American Institute of Physics
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 6:00 pm EST
Memory, Loss, Mourning and Renewal: The Care of Memories at Life’s End: Reflections on an Intellectual Career, a Final Book, and a Long, Unfinished Personal Journey
Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University)
McGill University, Social Studies of Medicine
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 8:30 am EST
SSoM Anniversary Symposium 2026: Perspectives on Social Studies of Medicine
Cornelius Borck (University of Lübeck) Nicole C. Nelson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Fiona Kenney (McGill, Architecture) Cynthia Lazzaroni (McGill, Anthropology)
McGill University, Department of Social Studies of Medicine
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 11:00 am EST
Collection Ecologies
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Sex Isn′t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary
Beans Velocci
American Philosophical Society
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 2:00 pm EST
Health and the Urban Environment
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 3:00 pm EST
Supply-Side Appetite: How Big Food Engineered Our High-Protein Diets
Benjamin Siegel
Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:00 am EST
History of Astronomy
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 8:00 am EST
Contagion, Culture & the Global South
Consortium Working Group
Monday, November 2, 2026, 6:00 pm EST
Communities of Care: Building Resilience through Science, Health, and Social Justice
Deb Niemeier, Shashawnda Campbell, Eric Jackson, Anand Pandian, Jeremy Greene Nicole Labruto,
American Philosophical Society, Johns Hopkins University
Monday, November 2, 2026, 4:30 pm EST
Emergent Medicine, Emergent Economies: The Political Whiteness of Emergency Medicine in Globalizing Los Angeles
Nic John Ramos
Yale University
Monday, November 2, 2026, 3:30 pm EST
How To Be a Politically Active Scientist in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Case of Matthias Schleiden
Lynn K. Nyhart
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, November 2, 2026, 3:00 pm EST
A Nervous State: Hysteria in South Africa, 1920-1940
Mishka Wazar, Taylor Russ
Princeton University
Monday, November 2, 2026, 2:00 pm EST
Beauty Studies in the Premodern World
Consortium Working Group
Monday, November 2, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Doing History of Science
Consortium Working Group
Friday, October 30, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
The Wesley C. Salmon Memorial Lecture - Do Large Language Models Understand What They Are Talking About?
Michael Strevens
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 30, 2026, 1:30 pm EDT
Leveraging Evolution: Thinking in the Development of Phage Therapy
Paul Turner
Harvard University

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 5:45 pm EST
Confessions of a Cosmic Affairs Correspondent
Dennis Overbye
American Institute of Physics
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 6:00 pm EST
Memory, Loss, Mourning and Renewal: The Care of Memories at Life’s End: Reflections on an Intellectual Career, a Final Book, and a Long, Unfinished Personal Journey
Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University)
McGill University, Social Studies of Medicine
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 8:30 am EST
SSoM Anniversary Symposium 2026: Perspectives on Social Studies of Medicine
Cornelius Borck (University of Lübeck) Nicole C. Nelson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Fiona Kenney (McGill, Architecture) Cynthia Lazzaroni (McGill, Anthropology)
McGill University, Department of Social Studies of Medicine
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Sex Isn′t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary
Beans Velocci
American Philosophical Society
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 3:00 pm EST
Supply-Side Appetite: How Big Food Engineered Our High-Protein Diets
Benjamin Siegel
Johns Hopkins University
Monday, November 9, 2026, 3:00 pm EST
Cultural Evolutionary Theory and Neoliberalism, 1960-85
Dor Shilton, Angela Creager
Princeton University
Monday, November 9, 2026, 3:30 pm EST
Hunting Empire: Big-Game Hunting, Safari Culture and the Making of Italian Africa
Beatrice Falcucci
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3:00 pm EST
Minds, Machines, and Managers: Capitalism and AI in Cold War America
Devin Kennedy
Harvard University
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 3:00 pm EST
Mapping the West Asian technological culture from the East: University of Kyoto's surveys of agriculture and small industries of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in the 1960s
Ata Heshmati
University of Toronto
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Stewards of the Land: In Conversation with Stevie Ruiz and Jessica Kim
Stevie Ruiz, Jessica Kim
Huntington Library
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 3:00 pm EST
Is the Study of Plant ‘Intelligence’ a New Paradigm for Plant Science or a New Pseudoscience for Our Time? What Lessons Can Historians Draw from This Current Debate?
Sharon Kingsland
Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 6:00 pm EST
Meet & Geek: Fathoming Frankenstein 2026
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 6:30 pm EST
Live! At the Library: Putting Biodiversity on the Map: Toward a Global Map of Life
Walter Jetz
Library of Congress
Friday, November 13, 2026, 1:30 pm EST
My Itinerary Toward a Historical Epistemology of the Life Sciences
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Harvard University
Monday, November 16, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science
Sonya Atalay
Columbia University
Monday, November 16, 2026, 3:30 pm EST
Maternal Madness and the Making of “Mothers” and “Reproducers” in Nineteenth Century U.S. Medicine
Udodiri R. Okwandu
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 6:00 pm EST
What Is the Soul? Genealogies of Psy-Sciences and Secularism in Modern Turkey
Kutlughan Soyubol
Columbia University
Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Bridging the History of Science and Art History with a Lifecycle Approach: Or, How to Remove a Racist Statue and Write About It Later
Allison Bigelow
University of Toronto

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