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2017-2018 Colloquia
The colloquium meets generally three times per quarter on Thursdays at 4:30
in the Lane History Building, Room 307, unless noted below.
Past Events
May
24
A six part lecture series by Professor George E. Smith, Emeritus, Tufts University and Professor Teru Miyake visiting at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
May
10
From Kepler's Optics to Spinoza's Politics: Descartes' Turn to the Passions
May
3
The Pickaxe and the Church book The experience of being Prehistorian and Catholic in France (from 1859 to 1962)
April
12
When Science was a Habit
April
5
The Role of History and Rare Events in Systems of Life, some Mathematical Challenges
April
5
‘Living Fossils’: Pelvic Bones and Fertile Wombs as Objects of Natural History in Semicolonial Egypt
March
8
Fall from grace: How climate science failed and how we might save it
Lunch will be served
March
5
The history of scientific thinking about Earthquakes
February
28
How Smoking Became Addictive (Against All Odds): Biology, Technology, and Culture in the Making of the Cigarette Century
February
27
Drawing Lines through Rivers and Cities.