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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 20h

📣 IHPST Research Seminar w ith Professor Wen-Hua Kuo 📅 Oct. 5 | 🕓 4–6 p.m. 📍 VC212, Victoria College ⚠️ Monday, not the regular Wednesday session. For info about the pre-circulated papers visit ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/%E2%8...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

⚕️ Professor Lucia Dacome’s latest article examines slavery, disability, and medicine in early-modern Tuscany and medicine’s role in shaping ability, race, labour, and knowledge. academic.oup.com/past/article...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🤖 Is your AI just telling you what you want to hear? 👀 A new paper co-authored by Prof. @karinavold.bsky.social shows how common training practices can steer conversational AI to be overly agreeable, even when that may undermine users’ longer-term interests. openreview.net/pdf?id=LCsPk...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What can one life reveal about deafness, disability, race, colonialism, and immigration? Join us Sept. 30 for the IHPST Colloquium with Prof. Aparna Nair, exploring the remarkable story of Mooktie Wood through a transnational microhistory. Event details ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/mookt...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🍽️ Business Manager & Executive Assistant to the Director Muna Salloum joined The Maniculum Podcast to discuss medieval Arab cuisine and its influence on European taste. Their work brings the history of medieval Arab food traditions to wider audiences 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5qLf...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Professor @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social ’s The Broken Machine explores how technological breakdown, from railway accidents to Cold War malfunctions, shaped ideas about social order, responsibility, and the modern self. An open-access book from @mitpress.bsky.social 📚 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Postdoctoral Fellow Julia Menzel was featured in Scientific American, discussing historical parallels between today’s pressures on U.S. science and the Nixon era. Her research offers important lessons for understanding challenges facing researchers today 🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Professors Marga Vicedo and Mark Solovey on receiving a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for their two-year project, Breaking Bad: Historicizing the Science of Human Nature. We look forward to following this exciting research!

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🎉 Welcome to IHPST! We’re delighted to welcome our incoming 2026–27 students: PhD: Laura Benítez Cojulún, Rebecca Muscant, Ayoob Sadeghiani & Luna Wang MA: Aliya Pariag, Eleni Sotirakos & Ava Spurr Welcome to the IHPST community! 🎓

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🎉 Welcome to a new academic year at IHPST! Our latest newsletter is packed with news, publications, awards, new members, interdisciplinary projects, and upcoming events. Start the semester with us! viewstripo.email/acf28f37-414...

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Karina Vold @karinavold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

👋 Torontonians: Join me for canapés & a conversation about the role of AI in Science 🧬 🤖 This year’s Technophilosophy Soiree is on Sept 25th, 5-7pm Our speakers are Sina Fazelpour, Rosa Cao, Kathleen Creel, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik. 🫵 Register here technophilosophy.ca @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

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Technophilosophy: September Soiree

Join us this September for a soiree on technophilosophy.

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

❄️ Explore big questions about human nature, misinformation, AI, climate change, data, and the history of medicine. Find the Winter course that's right for you ❄️ 🔗 ihpst.utoronto.ca/undergraduat... #UofT #IHPST

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

History. Philosophy. AI. Medicine. Environment. Technology. Explore 19 undergraduate and graduate courses this Fall at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Discover your next course ihpst.utoronto.ca/undergraduat...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

📖 New publication by Prof. Lucia Dacome! The article is open access for one month—a great opportunity to explore this important contribution to the histories of slavery, medicine, and disability. Read it here: academic.oup.com/past/article...

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Institute of Health Emergencies & Pandemics @uoftpandemics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The interdisciplinary team includes IHEP members Brian Baigrie @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed @uoftcompsci.bsky.social, @furnesscolin.bsky.social and Nadia Caidi (Faculty of Information).

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The PAINT Workshop on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence invites submissions exploring foundational and normative questions about AI, science, and society. 📍 IHPST-UofT 📅 September 25–26, 2026 ⏰ Deadline: July 31, 2026 Organized by Prof. @karinavold.bsky.social CFP

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PAINT Workshop on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

CFP: PAINT Workshop on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Network Talks (PAINT) is hosting a two-day in-person workshop at University of Toronto on…

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

📘 New open access publication by Prof. Adrien Zakar in the American Historical Review: In this article Professor Zakar traces the longer intellectual genealogy of Nakba as a concept of catastrophe and political upheaval prior to 1948. Read more: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📘 Postdoctoral Fellow Miron Clay-Gilmore and Zane Maddux examine how data-driven surveillance extends counterinsurgency into domestic contexts, reinforcing racialized policing and social control. Read the article: mironjclaygilmore.substack.com/p/the-threat... #AI #Surveillance

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📘 In a recent NOW Toronto feature, Prof. Marga Vicedo traces how understandings of autism shifted from psychiatric models to modern neurodevelopmental perspectives and how those shifts affect access to services and public policy today. nowtoronto.com/news/kids-ar...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🌟 Prof. Elise Burton was featured in the University of Toronto Magazine for using escape rooms as a teaching tool in history of science courses, helping students explore scientific practice through collaborative and experiential learning 🌟 magazine.utoronto.ca/campus/profe...

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How To Engage Today’s Students? Try An Escape Room | U of T Magazine - U of T Magazine

Professors are experimenting with ways to make learning more active, immersive and effective Read More

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🗺️ In “Coordinated Fabulation: The Thing-Unthought in the History of Modern Mapping,” Prof. Adrien Zakar examines the conceptual foundations and narrative structures of modern cartographic practice. Published in the International Journal of Turkish Studies: karpatcenter.wisc.edu/karpat-cente...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🎙️ The Algorithms of Empire podcast, curated by postdoc Miron Clay‑Gilmore, investigates AI’s military origins and the political fallout of contemporary artificial intelligence 🪡 ⬇️

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Algorithms of Empire (AoE) Podcast

A podcast dedicated to exploring the military roots of artificial intelligence technologies and their consequences for racialized forms of warfare and repres...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Prof @karinavold.bsky.social took part in a @masseycollege.bsky.social e panel on AI’s social impact alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Nick Frosst, hosted by IHPST PhD student @reneeasirbu.bsky.social Missed it? Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKB... #AI #Ethics

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Congratulations to Prof. @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social on the publication of his new book with @mitpress.bsky.social 🎉 Even better: the book is available open access! We invite you all to explore this exciting research. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🌍 ICYMI: Our latest alumni spotlight highlights Adrian K. Yee, Zhixiang Cheng, and Jan Hua-Henning, now working at leading institutions across Asia. Their journeys reflect the global reach of IHPST and the value of interdisciplinary scholarship across borders ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/ihpst-a...

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IHPST Alumni in Asia: Interdisciplinary Paths and Global Connections

From Hong Kong to Beijing and Kunshan, IHPST alumni are building academic careers across Asia, bringing with them the interdisciplinary training and intellectual flexibility that define the program.…

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

IHPST postdoc Miron Clay-Gilmore has a forthcoming APQ article titled "Paradoxes of Being." It examines AI, epistemology, militarization, and racialized systems of control through the work of Sylvia Wynter 📑 👉 philpapers.org/rec/CLAPOB

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Congratulations to alumna Jacqueline Feke, named 2026–27 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow at Jackman Humanities Institute. Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, she’ll create videos on science history and online misinformation www.humanities.utoronto.ca/news/visitin...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

How have women in science been written out of history? Assistant Professor Ellen Abrams joined CBC Ideas to reflecting on the groundbreaking legacy of Margaret Rossiter and the enduring importance of recovering women’s contributions to science 🖇️ www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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Karina Vold @karinavold.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Filming an episode of a new TVO kids show @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social today! I’m featured as an AI expert. Filming is hard, I’m staying in academia

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

New work from Assistant Professor Adrien Zakar examines how Arabic texts, oral traditions, and proverbs preserved memories of coexistence, violence, and displacement after the Armenian genocide, while tracing a broader regional vocabulary of disaster and Nakba. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Information Technology & Security at U of T @its.utoronto.ca · 11/05/2026

Day 2 at #TechKnowFile2026 featured a keynote on thinking *with* AI from @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social's @karinavold.bsky.social, and a day full of sessions on everything from @uoftlibraries.bsky.social's website consolidation to @utoronto.ca's AI Kitchen, co-sponsored by @drdonnakidwell.com. Thanks all!

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University of Toronto @utoronto.ca · 06/05/2026

Imagine walking into your class and finding an 18th-century ship. That’s exactly what associate professor Elise Burton & PhD student Oubai Elkerdi built at #UofT – a fully immersive escape room where students in their science, technology & empire class solve puzzles from course material. 🏴‍☠️

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Our March–April newsletter is now live! This issue highlights media features, new research on AI and history, innovative teaching, and alumni stories across Asia. Take a look 👇 🔗 viewstripo.email/13ee31dd-d07...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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. Read more:

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IHPST Alumni in Asia: Interdisciplinary Paths and Global Connections

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We’re now on Instagram and LinkedIn! Follow us for more updates, events, and research highlights #AcademicTwitter #IHPST

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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 🔗https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/411/402223/Technology-and-CritiqueGenealogies-of-Digital-War

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🎉 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.

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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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University of Toronto @utoronto.ca · 30/03/2026

#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

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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 🔗https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/429/402209/Gimmicks-of-War @dukepress.bsky.social #History #STS

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📣 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

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📅 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...

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🚨 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....

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