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What If...?: Alternative Histories of Science
Friday, April 20, 2012
7:00-9:00pm
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street (Map)

Imagine that phrenology – the 19th century study of mind by measuring bumps on people’s heads – had turned out to be true? Or that Darwin hadn’t been invited to go on the voyage of the Beagle? Or that the luminiferous ether – much loved by late 19th century physicists as the theoretical medium for the propagation of light – had turned out to actually exist?

Now imagine historians in discussion with stand-up comedians on these subjects, and you’ve got “What If…?”

Moderator Anne Harrington, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard
Speakers:
Andrew Berry, Undergraduate Advisor and Lecturer on Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard
David Jones, A Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard
Roberto Lalli, History of Modern Physical Sciences Fellow, MIT
Joined by stand-up comedians: Kevin Harrington, Raj Sivaraman, and Rob Crean




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