10/04/2023
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We are a community of scholars including a dozen or so core and affiliated faculty members and about
The Program in History of Science at Princeton University trains students to analyze science, medicine, and technology in historical and cultural context. We are a community of scholars including roughly a dozen core and affiliated faculty members and about twenty graduate students, in addition to undergraduate concentrators and visiting fellows. Members of our group maintain vibrant intellectual
10/04/2023
04/20/2023
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
http://ow.ly/i2HR50NOl5m
04/13/2023
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
🔗http://ow.ly/yKQ450NIuqC
04/05/2023
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
http://ow.ly/RqJ250NBebs
03/30/2023
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.
2023 DHST Dissertation Prize - Division of History of Science and Technology We are very happy to announce the 2023 laureates of the DHST disseration prize. Brad BOLMANN. “The Voyage of the Scientific Beagle: Dogs in the Physical and Biomedical Sciences.” (Harvard University, director: Peter L. Galison and David S. Jones) Jolien GIJBELS. “The Perils of Birth: Obstetric...
03/29/2023
April 3, 3:00pm
"Between Breath and Sea: Sea Women and the Transpacific Entanglements of Science and Gender, c. 1910s-1980s"
Prospectus by Alice Hong with comments by Jonathan Victor Baldoza
On Being the Wrong Size: Aftermaths of Soviet Science
Book Proposal by Michael D. Gordin with comments by Julian Chehirian
Alice Hong & Michael D. Gordin "Between Breath and Sea: Sea Women and the Transpacific Entanglements of Science and Gender, c. 1910s-1980s" Prospectus by Alice Hong with comments by Jonathan Victor Baldoza On Being the Wrong Size: Aftermaths of Soviet Science Book Proposal by Michael D. Gordin with comments by Julian Chehirian Co...
03/22/2023
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
🔗http://ow.ly/HoeN50NpGzk
03/17/2023
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
http://ow.ly/RCqO50NlnTM
03/03/2023
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.
Princeton on ice: Documenting climate change at the ends of the Earth Polar ice tells the story of climate change — over millions of years and right now. Climate scientist John Higgins, historian of science Justine Holzman, and environmentalist Anne McClintock are bringing that story to light through their work.
03/02/2023
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
🔗http://ow.ly/o3pz50N7Esx
02/24/2023
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
🔗http://ow.ly/Yw4950N2kon
02/23/2023
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: http://ow.ly/aT5H50MGKZt
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