2021 sophomore tutorial community building week!

The event I attended this week was called Roundtable Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. The two speakers participating in the event were Terrence Keel and Cathy Gere. Terrence Keel is an associate professor at UCLA and teaches in the Institute for Society and Genetics, and in the department of African American Studies. Keel studies and writes about biomedical science, religion, law, and modern thought. Cathy Gere is a professor at UCSD and teaches classes in the history of medicine, biology, neuroscience and medical ethics. I chose the event because it seemed relevant, broad, and informal. I was intrigued by the roundtable format and the discussion regarding the future of the discipline and scholarship of the history of science, something that seemed to differ more from a typical Harvard seminar, and something that felt important to be engaged with as a History of Science concentrator.   The event was split up into two sec...

  This lecture on “Evolutionary Brotherhood” was led by Professor Jenna Tonn, a visiting professor at Boston College in Science and Technology Studies. Jenna is an alumnus of Harvard’s History of Science department where she received her Ph.D. Her research focuses on the cultural elements surrounding the history of science. She specializes in analyzing the role women played in stem fields throughout history. So, it makes sense that Tonn would know to teach a lecture on “manliness” in the field of zoology as this would be adjacent to her area of Focus.     Even though I don’t have any experience or interest in the field of zoology, I chose to attend this lecture because of my curiosity about the concept of “manliness”. It was interesting to have the word manliness present in the same sentence as “Experimental Zoology” because manliness in the 21st century is usually associated with physical strength and athletics. It’s not a concept that is thought to be synonymous with th...