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A Conversation with ‘Mill Town’ Author Kerri Arsenault
Join us for a Fellow in Focus lecture on the joy, challenge, and urgency of writing about our environments.
The Power of Hollywood: A Conversation on 'American Energy Cinema'
Raechel Lutz and Conevery Bolton Valencius analyze Hollywood films that feature energy as historical objects.
First Friday: The Story of Soap
Join us for an exciting lecture and soap-making demonstration by historian Julian Silverman, inspired by the historical science spectacles of Michael Faraday and the Royal Society.
Storytelling as Pedagogy: Historical Biographies in STEM and Social Studies
The 2024 Cain Conference will explore how the stories of diverse scientists can empower young girls and people of color to see themselves as valuable contributors to the STEM fields.
Samuel George Morton and the Afterlife of Scientific Racism in Philadelphia
Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.