Events

Literal Brain Control: The Resurgence of Psycho-Surgery and the Search for a Science of Violence in the 1960s and 1970s.

“Seeing Like a Turtle”: Ecologists, Light Pollution, and the Anthropocene: At an interdisciplinary conference on artificial light at night, an Australian biologist critiqued satellite…

COVID-19: Memory In and Of a (Public Health) Crisis

Henry Cowles is a historian of science and medicine. He writes and teaches about a range of topics, including psychology, addiction, self-help, and expertise. In addition to the History Department, he is affiliated…

Tiago Saraiva is an associate professor of History at Drexel University, co-editor of the journal History and Technology, and a member of the new Cambridge History of Technology editorial team. His book Fascist Pigs:…

Local Experiential Research Assignments for Undergrads:

Faculty and graduate student open-ended discussion group exploring major themes, topics, and puzzles in the history of science, technology, medicine, and the environment. Each month focuses on a different theme, with…

Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches European and American intellectual and cultural history with a…

Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistory, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750