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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - Plenary Presentations

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: M. Susan Lindee Department Chair, Janice and Julian Bers Professor, HSS

Steven Shapin Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

Keith Wailoo Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs, Department of History, Princeton University

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