Events

Upcoming Events

September 18, 2008

Patricia Kenschaft, Montclair State University

“Minority Mathematicians”

September 22, 2008

Paul Edwards, University of Michigan

HSSC Fall 2008 Workshop: Topic to be announced

September 22, 2008

Symposium on Mendel in the 21st Century: The Scientific, Social and Ethnical Impact of Genetics in our World

September 25, 2008

Pre-Conference Program:  “Crossing the Digital Divide”

September 25, 2008

Judith Walzer Leavitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Make Room for Daddy”

September 26, 2008

American Association for the History of Nursing:  25th Annual Research Conference

September 29, 2008

Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia

“The Iceberg and the Cathedral:  Wonder, Nature, Artifice, and Encounter in London and the Inuit World, 1576-1772”

October 1, 2008

Kevin Borg, James Madison University

“Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America”

October 1, 2008

Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Woman Award and Lecture Presentation

October 6, 2008

Deborah Coen, Barnard College

“A Laboratory of Nature and Culture:  Climate Science in a Continental Empire”

PACHS Events

September 25, 2008

Judith Walzer Leavitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Make Room for Daddy”

October 17, 2008

Paul Pasles, Villanova University

“Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers:  An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey”

October 24, 2008

William Noel, The Walters Art Museum

The Archimedes Palimpsest:  A Public Lecture

November 21, 2008

John Tresch, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Regional Colloquium:  Topic to be Announced

December 12, 2008

Speaker to be announced

Regional Colloquium:  Topic to be Announced

A New Astronomical Instrument by James Ferguson (1710-1776)
Image courtesy of the American Philosophical Society

Area Exhibits

April 19, 2008 - May 3, 2009

“Witnessing Evolution”

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

May 24, 2008 - September 28, 2008

“Gregor Mendel:  Planting the Seeds of Genetics”

The Academy of Natural Sciences

February 29, 2008 - December 31, 2008

“Extraordinary Bodies:  Mütter Museum Photographs”

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Mütter Museum

March 12, 2008 - June 1, 2009

“The Lure of the North”

The Academy of Natural Sciences, Ewell Sale Stewart Library

Permanent Exhibit

Franklin Institute Permanent Exhibit:  “Franklin.  He’s Electric.”

The Franklin Institute

Permanent Exhibit

Online Exhibit.  “J. G. Brill Company Photographs”

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

June 22, 2007 - December 28, 2008

Undaunted: Five American Explorers, 1760-2007

American Philosophical Society

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