University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary

In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.

 

50+2: Plenary Presentations: Past, Present, Future

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Chair: M. Susan Lindee, Department Chair, Janice and Julian Bers Professor, HSS

Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

Keith Wailoo, Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs, Department of History, Princeton University

50+2: A Conversation with Department Founder and Science History Institute Founder Arnold Thackray

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Introduction by David Cole
Science History Institute

Moderator: Jeffrey L. Sturchio
HSS PhD alum, and former chairman and CEO at Rabin Martin

Arnold Thackray
HSS Department Founder and Science History Institute Founder

50+2: History of Science: The State of the Field

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Cameron Brinitzer, USC-Berggruen Fellow
Chair

Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Assistant Professor, HSS
Moderator

Mary Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

Lynn Nyhart, Robert E. Kohler Professor of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Joanna Radin, Associate Professor of History of Medicine and History, Yale University

John Tresch, Professor and Mellon Chair, Warburg Institute

Jeremy Vetter, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona

50+2: History of Technology: The State of the Field

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Amy Slaton, Professor, Department of History, Drexel University

Stephanie Dick, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

Deborah Fitzgerald, Professor of the History of Technology, MIT

Whitney Laemmli, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University

Zachary Loeb, PhD Candidate, HSS
Chair

Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Janice and Julian Bers Professor Emerita
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania

Elly Truitt, Associate Professor, HSS
Moderator

50+2: History of Medicine: The State of the Field

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Eram Alam, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science, Harvard University

Robert Aronowitz, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, HSS
Moderator

Steven Feierman, HSS Professor Emeritus

Mary Fissell, Inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor in the History of Medicine, Department of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University

Jessica Martucci, Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies, HSS 

Leah Samples, PhD Candidate
Chair

Rosemary A. Stevens, Professor, DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College, HSS Professor Emerita

Dominique Tobbell, Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia School of Nursing