Fall 2018 Schedule
| Sept 7 | [no talk; introduction to course] | |
| Sept 14 | Daryl DeFord (MIT/Tufts) |
Mathematical Modeling of Social Connections |
| Sept 21 | Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy) |
The Politics of Post-Truth |
| Sept 28 | Banu Subramaniam (UMass WGSS) |
Decolonizing Botany |
| Oct 5 | Christoph Riedl (Northeastern Network Science) |
Cancelled |
| Oct 12 | John Basl (Northeastern Philosophy) Jeff Behrends (Harvard Philosophy) |
Ethics and Autonomous Vehicles in Accident Scenarios |
| Oct 19 | Lisa Haushofer (UToronto HPS) |
Food with Benefits [Location: Dowling Hall Milmore Room/730A] |
| Oct 26 | Kurt Ralske (Tufts SMFA) |
Actual Problems in Virtual Reality |
| Nov 2 | William San MartÃn (WPI Humanities & Arts) |
Cold War Politics and the Struggle for Global Sustainability |
| Nov 9 | Jeannie Simms (Tufts SMFA) |
Under the Sun: Photosensitive Art and Immigration |
| Nov 16 | Jenna Tonn (Boston College STS) |
Boys in the Lab: The Culture of 19th-Century Experimental Biology |
| Nov 23 | [no meeting – Thanksgiving] | |
| Nov 30 | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (UNH Physics) |
White Empiricism and the Making of Black Women Physicists |
| Dec 7 | Alma Steingart (Harvard History of Science) |
Modernism and Mathematics at Midcentury |