IHPST alumni are building academic careers across Asia: from Hong Kong to Beijing and Kunshan. Their paths show how interdisciplinary training can open doors, and highlight growing opportunities for collaboration across institutions and regions.
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Assistant Prof. @karinavold.bsky.social has published an open-access article on AI and military decision-making, examining how AI (already used on battlefields) could shape high-level strategic choices about employing armed force. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AI #Ethics #IHPST #TechEthics
Professor Adrien Zakar explores how digital conflict is linked to historical empire and colonial violence, examining the impact of technology on governance and global surveillance 🔗read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/411...
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Marga Vicedo, awarded the 2025–2026 Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman Research Professorship by @victoriacollege.bsky.social. Her project, “The Science of Human Nature, in Context,” examines the origins of key studies on human behaviour.
IHPST alum Jonathan Fuller has published a new open-access book with Oxford University Press. Now at the University of Pittsburgh, his work explores the how epidemiology has shaped modern medical thought. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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#UofT ranked first in Canada, among top 17 globally across all broad subject fields in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 🍁 uoft.me/cht
ICYMI Assistant Professor @karinavold and Postdoctoral Fellow Miron Clay-Gilmore are featured the A&S News article "When the algorithm is wrong: A new partnership calls out racism in AI systems " 🔗 www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/when-al...
Discover what the new autistic Barbie reveals about contemporary views on autism? Historian Marga Vicedo talked about Mattel's first autistic Barbie on The Last Show with David Cooper. 🎧 Listen to her insights on representation hurdles #Inclusion #Neurodiversity #Barbie #Autism
New publication by Prof. Adrien Zakar
🗺️ “Gimmicks of War” shows how Ottoman maps were reactivated to legitimize territorial claims, mobilized as affective tools of political authority 🔗read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/429...
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📣 Q&A via the American Institute of Physics @aip.bsky.social
IHPST PhD Julia Menzel on Kenneth Wilson, the renormalization group & supercomputing.
A sharp look at how physics, policy & institutions reshaped each other. 🔗https://www.aip.org/history/q-a-julia-menzel
#histsci #physics
Assistant Professor @karinavold.bsky.social joined The Decibel podcast to explore how the public responds to AI-generated actions on the social media platform "Moltbook." 🎧 Hear her insights on the dangers of attributing human traits to AI ⬇️ 🔗 Full episode: www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...
📅 IHPST Research Seminar – Mar 25
We are very excited to welcome Hélène Mialet as the speaker for the next IHPST seminar, organized by Prof. Joseph Berkovitz.
A fascinating look at how humans, animals, and machines detect low blood sugar in Type 1 diabetes. ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...
🚨 New book from the IHPST community!
The Clinical Encounter: A Philosophical Analysis by Prof. Brian S. Baigrie, IHPST alumnus Steven K. Baker examines how ethics, communication, and decision-making shape interactions between clinicians and patients 📘 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10....
Prof.Marga Vicedo was featured on CBC Radio One’s Wired Differently. The episode explores life with Asperger’s Syndrome and debates about autism and diagnosis.
In this clip, Vicedo discusses the historical reassessment of Hans Asperger.
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Prof. Chen-Pang Yeang has been awarded the first IEEE Emerson Pugh History of Technology Book Prize for 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑒. This accolade honours exceptional research in tech history. 🎉 Congratulations Professor Yeang! 👏👏👏
🔗 www.ieeefoundation.org/the-ieee-his... #TechHistory #IEEE
New IHPST Newsletter just dropped 📰
Inside:
– Digital war, AI & technology studies
– Major international book prizes
– Alumni news
– Media features
We are proud of the intellectual range of this community.
Read it here: viewstripo.email/4098f295-9c0...
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What is the place of colours in the natural world? Join us on Wednesday for an in-person talk by Paul Patton, who drawing on research in colour vision, will challenge both direct and indirect realism. 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/hapsa...
March 4 -12 to 2:00 p.m.
Constance de Font-Réaulx explores how “water scarcity” in early modern Paris was constructed as a governance tool under Louis XIV and Colbert.
📖 Paper circulated in advance 📧 Email to request a copy
🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...
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Deep within #UofT’s rare book collections, even the humblest materials can hold extraordinary stories.
A scrap of 📜 from the Robertson Davies Library @masseycollege.bsky.social Library has been identified as part of a 15th-century letter from the court of King Louis XI of France
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From state violence to sustainable urban planning, scholars from across #UofTArtSci are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.
This week's round-up: bit.ly/4b1Nn23
What happens when we think with the trip? From vertigo and VR to psychedelics and altered perception, Trip Out! explores technologies of altered perception and reality as mediated experience. More information and Registration 🔗 www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/upcomi...
Victoria Fisher and Erich Weidenhammer discuss overlooked aspects of science that often slip through written accounts. Their piece highlights the importance of small, informal artifact collections throughout Canada 🇨🇦. Discover more here: journals.library.ualberta.ca/scientia/ind...
📣 Today!
HAPSAT Graduate Workshops – Second Winter Session
🗓️ February 11 | 12:00–1:30 PM
📍 VC303, Victoria College
Featuring talks by Tola Ajao and Myriam Iuorio on knowledge, power, disability, and lived experience in African and Atlantic histories. ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/hapsa...
Miron Clay-Gilmore, William Paris, Sergio Tenenbaum and Karina Vold.
The Algorithmic Bias in Canada project, a new research initiative hosted by @uoftethics.bsky.social, hopes to shape more equitable AI-based systems through academic collaboration, public engagement, and partnerships.
Learn more: bit.ly/4qrVv0n
🤖🕯️ Can AI change how we grieve?
Professor @karinavold.bsky.social co-authored a new article in Psychologie Québec examining the ethical implications of AI-based post-mortem digital avatars, or “griefbots,” and their potential impact on mourning www.ordrepsy.qc.ca/-/avatars-nu...
🔧📚 Who built Canadian physics?
In a new article alumna Victoria Fisher foregrounds the often-overlooked contributions of technicians and instrument makers to the development of competitive physics research programs in Canada brill.com/view/journal...
Next Week!
Who produced agricultural knowledge on antebellum plantations?
How was disability understood beyond Western frameworks in early modern Africa?
Join the HAPSAT Graduate Workshop with Tola Ajao and Myriam Iuorio
🕛 12–1:30 PM | Victoria College | In person ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/hapsa...
🧠📖 How can evolutionary biology be rethought through history and philosophy?
PhD Candidate Oubai Elkerdi has published a new article inviting readers to reflect on evolution through a critical-historical lens and beyond specialist audiences. Read it here 🖇️ renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/what...
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From plantation knowledge and enslavement to disability and healing in early modern Africa 🌍️
Join us for the next HAPSAT Graduate Workshop with Tola Ajao and Myriam Iuorio.
📅 Feb 11 | 12–1:30 PM | Victoria College
🔗 More information ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/hapsa...
