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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
On Meerkats and Marmots: Long-term Research and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
Erika L. Milam,
Charles C. and Emily R. Gillispie Professor in the History of Science; Professor of History,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Eight Decades of Living with Nuclear Technology
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Engineering Fidelity: Early Radio and the Trautonium in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s
Myles W. Jackson,
Ph.D., Ernst & Elisabeth Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
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Fighting the First Wave
Peter Baldwin,
Global Distinguished Professor, NYU; Professor of History, UCLA,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
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Rich Rocks, the Climate Crisis, and the Tech Imperium
Sophia Kalantzakos,
Visiting Fellow in the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology (2020-2021), Caltech; Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy, New York University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
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Ideal and Illusion: The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla
W. Bernard Carlson,
Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities; Chair, Engineering and Society Department; Professor of History, University of Virginia,
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● POSTPONED: William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
This event has been postponed. Rescheduled date TBA.
W. Bernard Carlson,
Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities; Chair, Engineering and Society Department; Professor of History, University of Virginia,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Lies & Truth in the History of Science
Alberto A. Martínez,
Associate Professor,
Department of History,
The University of Texas at Austin,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Leonardo da Vinci: History of the Earth and the Fate of Man
Paolo Galluzzi,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Historian of Science, Director of the Galileo Museum, Florence, Italy,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford,
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU, Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Science vs. Intuition: Why Scientific Ideas Elude the Human Mind
Andrew Shtulman,
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Psychology,
Occidental College,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Film Screening: "Containment," Intro and Q&A with the film's creators
Peter Galison,
Joseph Pellegrino University Professor,
Harvard University,
Robb Moss,
Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies,
Harvard University,
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Harris Lecture: John P.A. Ioannidis
Empirical research on research and the reproducibility crisis
John P.A. Ioannidis,
C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention, Professor of Health Research and Policy,
Stanford University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Alan Turing (1912-1954): an individual of the twentieth century
Andrew Hodges, Senior Research Fellow and Tutor, Mathematics, Wadham College, University of Oxford,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Knowledge Society as a Practical Utopia and its Hidden Impact on Higher Education
Liviu Matei,
Provost and Pro-Rector; Professor in the Department of Public Policy ,
Central European University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Cars and Civilization
Jesse H. Ausubel, Rockefeller University; Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Vienna University of Technology and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,
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William and Myrtle Harris Seminar on Science and Civilization
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Andrew Robinson,
Author and Journalist,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
Edward J. Larson,
University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law,
Pepperdine University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Archaeologies of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space
Joan Breton Connelly,
Professor of Classics, Art History; Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus,
New York University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Apples of Our Eyes: Art, Intellectual Property and American Fruits
Daniel J. Kevles,
J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus,
Caltech, and professor of history, Yale University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Walther Rathenau's Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul
Shulamit Volkov,
professor of modern history,
Tel Aviv University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Manufacturing Memories
Elizabeth Loftus,
distinguished professor social ecology and professor of law and cognitive science,
UC Irvine,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Did Darwin Write the Origin of Species Backwards?
Elliott Sober,
professor of philosophy,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Religious Rise of Civilizations
Scott Atran,
University of Michigan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris ,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Professor to Crusader: Galileo Transformed by His Telescope
John L. Heilbron,
professor emeritus of history and vice chancellor emeritus, UC Berkeley,
honory fellow, Worcester College, Oxford,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Commemorating Darwin: 1809, 1859, 2009
Janet Browne,
Aramont Professor of the history of science,
Harvard University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Robert Hooke in the Round: Ingenious Scientist, Newton's Nemesis, and a Most Disastrous Clerk
Lisa Jardine,
professor of renaissance studies,
Queen Mary University, London,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Watson, Crick, and the Mushroom Cloud
Soraya de Chadarevian,
department of history and the New Center for Society and Genetics,
UCLA,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Is There a Neurophysiological Challenge to Freedom and Responsibility of Human Action
Julian Nida-Rumelin,
Professor of Philosophy, Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy, University of Munich,
Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Caltech,
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