October 2013

Maya Jasanoff to give master's tea talk as 16th annual Bosworth lecturer, October 30th

Presented by the Frank K. Bosworth, Jr. ‘45 Memorial Lecture Fund & the Department of History, Maya Jasanoff, Professor of History at Harvard University, will present, “On the Wrong Side of Revolution: American Loyalists and the British Empire” as a Master’s Tea, hosted by Calhoun College.  The tea will take place on Wednesday, October 30th at 4:00pm.

HSHM Colloquium: Graeme Gooday,"'Hard of Hearing'? Diverse Anglo-American Experiences at the Aural Intersection of Conversation, Assistive Technologies and Clinical Intervention"

Graeme Gooday, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Acting Head of School (School of Philosophy), University of Leeds

“ ‘Hard of Hearing’? Diverse Anglo-American Experiences at the Aural Intersection of Conversation, Assistive Technologies and Clinical Intervention”

Tea will be served at 4:00pm

Lecture: Abbas Amanat, "Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Persianate India and Tipu Sultan's Resistance to British Expansion"

Abbas Amanat is a professor of history and international and area studies at Yale and the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. His teaching and research interests include modern Iran and the Middle East, Shi’ism, and apocalypticism. Professor Amanat is the consulting editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica.