Events
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Upcoming Events
August 5, 2009 - August 7, 2009
The 2009 IEEE Conference on the History of Technical Societies
IEEE History Committee and the IEEE History Center
August 13, 2009 - August 15, 2009
International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: 13th Summer Symposium
ISPC, with the Chermical Heritage Foundation and the Departments of Philosophy and History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Upcoming
PACHS Events
Fall & Spring 2008-2009
Previous
PACHS Events
Fall & Spring 2008-2009
June 19, 2009
Symposium: “The Legacy of Galileo”
The Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
June 18, 2009
Panel Discussion: “What Would Galileo Think?”
The Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
May 27, 2009
Spencer R. Weart, Center for History of Physics
The Discovery of Global Warming
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
May 5, 2009
Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Galileo and the Church: Old Myths, Historical Realities, and Modern Relevance
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science and The Franklin Institute
April 21, 2009
Eric Hintz, University of Pennsylvania, and PACHS Dissertation Research Fellow
The Professional Lives of American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950
Chemical Heritage Foundation and Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
April 17, 2009
Theodore Varno, University of California, Berkeley, and PACHS Dissertation Writing Fellow
‘An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale’: Charles Darwin on Domesticated Nature, Inbreeding, and the Inevitable Unfolding of Human History
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
March 20, 2009
Scott G. Knowles, Drexel University
Experts in Disaster: Confronting the Fire Problem in Modern American Cities
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
February 27, 2009
Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
Necromancy, Celestial Divination, and the Introduction of Arabic Science into England, c. 1080-1180
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
January 23, 2009
Sharon Kingsland, Johns Hopkins University
Caltech’s Atomic-Age Greenhouse: Exploring the Laboratory Side of the Lab-Field Borderland
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
December 12, 2008
John Tresch, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Auguste Comte in Paradise: The Ecole Polytechnique, Temporal Series, and the Birth of Sociology
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 28, 2008
Sarah Bridger, Columbia University
PACHS 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
“Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research”
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lecture
October 25, 2008
“On the Nature of Things: Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts”
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Penn's Department of History & Sociology of Science, Chemical Heritage Foundation, and Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 24, 2008
William Noel, The Walters Art Museum
Archimedes in Bits: The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Chemical Heritage Foundation, and University of Pennsylvania Libraries
October 17, 2008
Paul Pasles, Villanova University
Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey
Friends of the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
October 7, 2008
Nicholas Spicher, Johns Hopkins University
PACHS 2008 Dissertation Research Fellow
“The Method of Mirania: Teaching Science at the College of Philadelphia”
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lecture
October 3, 2008
Sharrona Pearl, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
“Diagnostic Physiognomy: From Phrenology to Fingerprints”
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
September 25, 2008
Judith Walzer Leavitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Make Room for Daddy: Men and Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century America”
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
September 18, 2008
Terry Christensen, Oregon State University
Miranda Paton, Cornell University
Brown Bag Lunch with Presentations by PACHS Dissertation Research Fellows
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science
September 12, 2008
Michael Gordin, Princeton University
The Origins of Nuclear Forensics: Making VERMONT and the U.S. Detection of the First Soviet Atomic Test
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Regional Colloquium
