Events

Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 12:00 pm EDT
Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires
Consortium Working Group
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
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan’s Space Programs
Subodhana Wijeyeratne
Johns Hopkins University
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
Monday, November 2, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Doing History of Science
Consortium Working Group
Monday, November 2, 2026, 2:00 pm EST
Beauty Studies in the Premodern World
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 8:00 am EST
Contagion, Culture & the Global South
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:00 am EST
History of Astronomy
Consortium Working Group
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

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
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, 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, 12:00 pm EDT
Doing History of Science
Consortium Working Group
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

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