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Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture 2026 : “Reading Galileo’s Letters: Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community” by Paula Findlen

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Paula Findlen, Ubalto Pierotti Professor in History and Italian Studies at Stanford University will be delivering The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture of 2026. Her talk will be on Tuesday, January 27 at 4:30 pm in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Her talk is titled: "Reading Galileo's Letters:  Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community"   Abstract: Galileo's […]

Victor Seow, “The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara

In 1935, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely never heard of. Titled An Overview of Industrial Psychology (工業心理學概觀), this text was written by a young psychologist who was trained in and recently returned from Britain. It was the first in Chinese on the titular […]