Wednesday, October 27, 2010 (Columbia University, 500 W 120th St, Mudd Building, Room 520)

Ruth Schwartz Cowan (University of Pennsylvania)
"Climbing Up the Slippery Slope: Mandated Genetic Screening on the Island of Cyprus"

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 (NYU Humanities Initiative, 20 Cooper Square (at E 5th St), 5th floor)

Peder Anker (New York University)
"History of Spaceship Earth Science"

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 (Columbia University, 500 W 120th St, Mudd Building, Room 520)

Marwa Elshakry (Columbia University)
"Golden Ages in the History of Science: Arabic Sciences in Question"

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 (CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, Room 9206)

Spencer Weart (American Institute of Physics)
"The Evolution of Nuclear Fear, 1900-2010"

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 (NYU Humanities Initiative, 20 Cooper Square (at E 5th St), 5th floor)

Gideon Manning (California Institute of Technology)
"Descartes the Medical Philosopher"

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 (CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, Room 9206)

Giora Hon (University of Haifa)
"The history of the concept of symmetry: a case of evolution or revolution?"

Thursday, May 19, 2011 (New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 40th floor)

Will Andrewes (The Longitude Dial)
"Making Time: astronomy, cartography, and the art and science of finding time"