Events

Catastrophic Thinking in Science and Culture; or, How We Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Mass Extinctions

By the middle of the 20th century, the notion that global “catastrophes” had…

This is a works-in-progress session, discussing papers by two of our graduate students.  Feel free to join for one or both conversations:

4:30-5:00 PM: “Coal, A Mineral Formed by…

 "A Berlin Ensemble: Natural Scientists, Radio Engineers, Musicians, and the Trautonium." 

Please join us for a meeting with Dr. Joyce White, Executive Director of the Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology, and a long-time researcher affiliated with the Penn…

There will be a showing of the documentary "No Mas Bebes" about forced sterilization of Hispanic women in the late 1960s and early 1970s followed by a panel discussion which will include Prof. Paul Lombardo of…

Science Beyond the West will be hosting our second meeting of the semester on Thursday, February 28th at 4:30pm in Hughes Lounge.

We will be discussing and workshopping a grant proposal that the group is…

Jonathan Coopersmith, Professor of History
Texas A&M University

"Creative Construction: The Integral Importance of Froth, Fraud and Fear in Emerging Technologies"

Kate Dorsch will defend her dissertation, Reliable Witnesses, Crackpot Science: UFO Investigations in Cold War America, 1947-1977, on February 22nd at 10 a.m. in Cohen 204.

"Ontological Entanglements: Animals and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica"

Marcy Norton, History Department, University of Pennsylvania