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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Science

2024/11/5
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In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.

In this episode:

Chair: Cameron Brinitzer USC-Berggruen Fellow

Moderator: Sebastián Gil-Riaño Assistant Professor, HSS

Lynn Nyhart Robert E. Kohler Professor of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

John Tresch Professor and Mellon Chair, Warburg Institute

Jeremy Vetter Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona

Joanna Radin Associate Professor of History of Medicine and History, Yale University

Mary Mitchell Assistant Professor, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

For more information on this and other topics, please see https://www.chstm.org/video/153