✨ Winter Holiday Closure✨ The University will be closed Dec 24, 2025 – Jan 2, 2026 (inclusive). 📚 Classes resume in January: ✔ Winter (S) courses begin ✔ Fall-Winter (Y) courses continue ☃️ Enjoy the holidays and see you in 2026! ⛄

How did medicine function on galley ships in early modern Livorno? ⚓️ In “Between Land and Sea,” Prof. Lucia Dacome's chapter traces the health practices, medical care, and conditions of galley slaves More information: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

ICYMI: @reneeasirbu.bsky.social PhD student at IHPST, won first place in the “Who’s Afraid of AI?” Student Forum and AI Commentary Contest Award! Her essay “Processing Grief: Computational Theory of Mind and Death in the Age of AI” earned top honours in the graduate category. 👏

We’re excited to share that Prof. Lucia Dacome’s new chapter “Between Land and Sea: Medicine and Galley Slavery in Early Modern Livorno” has just been published in Medicine in Early Modern Italy: between Theory and Practice (2025 @Brepols.net) 🔗 www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

ICYMI: Big news! Myriam Iuorio and Tola Ajao have been selected for the 2025 18th-Century Africa Publication Fellowships 🎉 Their work brings fresh perspectives to African and diasporic histories in the 18th century. Full story ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/myriam-... @asecsoffice.bsky.social

Captive Healthscapes: Exploring Slavery, Medicine, and Well-being in the Early Mediterranean 📅 December 18, 2025 | 🏛 Venice & online (Hybrid) 🔴 Sign up by December 7. Make sure to calculate the time difference between Venice and Toronto. The program times listed are in Central European Time.

ICYMI 👀 The IHPST Newsletter is packed with stories, research highlights, and interviews from across our community — faculty, students, and alumni alike. Take a look to the latest issue before the year wraps up 🎓 You can check all the 2025 issues here 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/newsletter

Gendered Perspective of Sensory Expertise in Early Modern Europe 📅 11–12 Dec 2025 | Liège & online (Hybrid) Prof. Lucia Dacome will present! Scan the QR code to save your spot 🌍 Check time difference before joining!

Twice a semester, a Victoria College classroom becomes a historical escape room! Learn how Professor Elise Burton and PhD student Oubai Elkerdi designed a hands-on way to explore the history of science 🔗 Read the story: ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/history...

📢 Enslaved Healthscapes: Bondage, Medicine, and Wellness in the Ancient Mediterranean Realm 📅 December 18, 2025 | 📍 Venice & online (Hybrid) - Want the link? Take a look at the flyer! Remember to check the time difference if you're joining in from Toronto or other places!

Congratulations to Myriam Iuorio and Tola Ajao! Both were selected for the 2025 18th-Century Africa Publication Fellowships, ASA & @asecsoffice.bsky.social support emerging scholars working on Africa and its diasporas in the long 18th century. Learn more their fellowship experience: buff.ly/qZziMFH

🤔 What if scientific success isn’t a miracle at all? Join Markus Alliksaar for a new perspective on realism and empirical order. HAPSAT Graduate Workshop 📍 Victoria College

We’re proud to feature IHPST alumna Helena Gagnier, who turned her graduate research in philosophy and ethics into real-world impact at TELUS. As a lead researcher on the 2025 Responsible AI Report, she explored how Canadians understand and trust AI technologies ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/ihpst-a...

Meet IHPST alumna Alison Li (PhD 1992), who was awarded the Jason A. Hannah Medal by the Royal Society of Canada for Wondrous Transformations (UNC Press, 2023). 🏅 The medal honors outstanding work in the history of medicine published in the past five years.

📣 Event Update - The talk “Quantifying Race: Histories of Statistical Modeling in Human Population Genetics” with IHPST professor Elise Burton has been rescheduled. We’ll share the new date and details as soon as they’re confirmed.

“It would be a statistical miracle if the patterns in our data were mere coincidence.” Don’t miss Markus Alliksaar’s Reverse No Miracles Argument at the next HAPSAT Graduate Workshop! 📅 Dec 3 | 🕛 12–1:30 PM | 📍 VC303

What if your midterm took place inside a 19th-century escape room? In HPS 205, students solve historical puzzles to unlock the past. Watch how history comes to life ⬇️ 🎥 Interested in learning through experience? This course might be for you!

🗞️ The latest IHPST Newsletter is out! 🔗 viewstripo.email/49225ff4-7d2... Catch up on the accomplishments and research of our faculty, students, and alumni — plus interviews, videos, and podcasts featured in this issue. 🗓️ Don’t forget to mark your calendars for our upcoming events!

🎥 Watch how Professor Burton’s historical escape rooms invite students to touch, think, and discover the past. There are still spots available in HPS 205 for the Winter 2026 semester. Don’t miss the chance to join! Share with undergraduates that may be interested!

Tomorrow 📆 November 12 ⏰ 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Scan the QR code to access the live transmission

Can biology tell us anything about morality? Alex Rose will talk about the relation between biology and ethics at the upcoming Graduate Student Worshop. Join us this Wednesday! For more details, visit: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/hapsa...

Join us in celebrating our IHPST graduates, a remarkable group whose work and curiosity enrich our community every day!

Join us today for an enlightening talk by Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the historical and current influence of patterns explored by scientists from various fields. The event, organized by Prof. Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social takes place at Victoria College 🔗

What happens when laws are designed to silence those who expose cruelty? 🐖✨ Join @CamilleLabchuk (@Animal Justice) for a thought-provoking talk on The Rise and Fall of Canadian Ag Gag Laws. 📍VC206, Victoria College 🗓️ Nov. 6 | 4:10–5:15 PM 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/rise-...

We’re celebrating @reneeasirbu.bsky.social for winning 🥇 1st place in the graduate student competition at the “Who’s Afraid of AI?” Conference by @utoronto.ca and BMO Lab. Renée examines AI's impact on our understanding of mortality, linking philosophy, cognitive science, and ethics 🎉

Curious about Canadians' views on AI? IHPST alumna Helena Gagnier, part of TELUS’s Data Ethics Team, helped reveal insights in the 2025 Responsible AI Report, one of Canada's most thorough explorations of AI perceptions. Discover more: ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/ihpst-a...

🐖 Learn about “Ag Gag” laws and Canada's animal protection movement's efforts to block and overturn these laws. Join Camille Labchuk from Animal Justice for a talk on activism, transparency, and animal welfare. 🗓️ Nov. 6 | ⏰ 4:10–5:15 PM More details: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/rise-...

What happens when humans introduce new species into an environment and what does it have to do with the woolly mammoth? 🦣 Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social explains in this clip from her interview on News with Lauren McNab (CJOB Winnipeg) 🎙️ In full here: archive.tveyes.com/18120/455385...

📅 Mark your calendars! What are patterns and how can they be recognized? This talk by Aaron Gluck-Thaler situates this development historically, with special reference to the co-extensive emergence of machine learning and data-driven surveillance techniques 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...

🤔 Are chatbot therapies safe? Effective? Biased? Find out TODAY with Prof. Catherine Stinson. 🗓️ Oct 15 | 3–5pm 📍 UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social 💻 Online option available. Scan the QR code to join!

Amazing to have Elliott Sober delivering his keynote "Richard Lewontin - Biologist, Philosopher, and Marxist" at the Dialectical Biology Today Conference! 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

Alarmist claims linking Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism revive old, damaging myths. In @Slate historian Marga Vicedo unpacks how mother-blame narratives distort science and harm families (Paywall article) 🔗 slate.com/life/2025/10...

How did a peasant-turned-agronomist persuade Stalin that wheat could become rye? On HISTORY This Week, Prof. Nikolai Krementsov discusses Stalin’s War on Genetics, exploring the consequences of ideology overruling science 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

.#ICYMI In this interview, Jessie Hall, a former postdoctoral fellow at IHPST with a background in philosophy, physics, and computational experimentation talked about AI, Philosophy of computing, and her time at the IHPST Learn more: ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/explori...

We are thrilled to have Elliott Sober as the first guest of the IHPST colloquium. Today he will use the Law of Likelihood (so named by Ian Hacking) to analyze Darwin's assumptions about common ancestry. See you there! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...

🐄 HPS403H1 – Vegetarianism & Veganism welcomes Dr. Anita Krajnc (The Save Movement) on the links between animal welfare, the environment, and policy change. 🌎 Open to all UofT members! 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/impor...

Join Michael Pettit (YorkUniversity) to explore why resilience isn’t neutral and how concepts of childhood, adversity, and coloniality influenced modern psychology. More details on accessing the pre-circulated paper for discussion here: 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...

🧠 Prof. Marga Vicedo warns: "At the end of the day, saying it's a mother's fault is a very strong and powerful way of keeping mothers as the main caretakers." www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n... Must-read piece from @npr.org #Autism #Tylenol

Can chatbots really replace psychotherapists? Prof. Catherine Stinson will explore the possibilities & limitations of chatbot therapy. 📍 UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social 🗓️ Oct 15 | 3–5pm Don’t miss it!

📅 Join us for the IHPST Fall 2025 Colloquium on Oct 9 🕒 3-5 PM and hear about three of Darwin's guiding assumptions about common ancestry. More information here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...

📢 Register for the Dialectical Biologist anniversary event to explore different perspectives on the intersections of biology, philosophy, and politics. Available in-person or online. Reserve your spot today!

The 18th Toronto German Studies Symposium will feature a varied program including a screening of "Singing Back the Buffalo" by Indigenous Canadian filmmaker Tasha Hubbard and presentations by scholars sharing their research. More details and booklet here: german.utoronto.ca/18th-toronto....

📅 Wednesday, October 1 ⏱️ 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200. This event is part of the ABC: Partnership on Algorithm Bias and Safety in Canada. For more information about this research project, please visit: algorithmicbias.ca @uoftethics.bsky.social @karinavold.bsky.social

🍏 Don't miss out! You can still attend Dr. Zahra Kassam's presentation on the vital impact of plant-based nutrition for health and sustainability. "The Benefits of Plant-Based Nutrition for Health and the Planet" starts today at 5:00 p.m. 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/benef...

An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

We are excited to welcome Julia Menzel as our inaugural guest speaker at the IHPST seminar. She will discuss her research on austerity and Cold War science. Join us for an insightful conversation, especially if you have reviewed her paper beforehand ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...

Exciting news for your fall agenda! 🍂 The IHPST Colloquium featuring Elliott Sober is set for Oct 9, 3-5 PM at Emmanuel College. Discover Darwin’s hypotheses on common ancestry 📚 ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...

Join us in commemorating 40 years of groundbreaking biological insights from October 10-12. Participate at the Goldring Student Centre or virtually to honour the contributions of evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin. Find more details here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

🦣 What is permafrost and how it relates to the fascination with woolly mammoths in de-extinction projects? Tune in to this brief clip for insights, and catch the full chat with Prof. Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social on the Mornings with Simi show 📻 archive.tveyes.com/18120/455385...

🌱 Save the Date! Explore the powerful link between diet, health, and climate with Dr. Zahra Kassam . Find out why plant-based nutrition is essential for a healthier future. 📅 Join us for this in-person event! More information here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/benef...