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August 6, 2026
This 2026 Cain Conference will address the major issues involved in understanding how modern science has been created through a process of global cultural exchange.
Hear from Philadelphia’s leading fashion sustainability experts in this engaging panel talk on durable, reusable, and recyclable apparel.
Raechel Lutz and Conevery Bolton Valencius analyze Hollywood films that feature energy as historical objects.
Shireen Hamza examines the incorporation of elements of non-Western medicine by biomedical institutions in the United States.
Join us for an exciting lecture and soap-making demonstration by historian Julian Silverman, inspired by the historical science spectacles of Michael Faraday and the Royal Society.
The 2024 Cain Conference will explore how the stories of diverse scientists can empower young girls and people of color to see themselves as valuable contributors to the STEM fields.
Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann shares an untold story about science and immigration.
From plastics circularity in healthcare to changing modes of recycling, the 2023 T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation revealed new perspectives on plastics.
Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.
Historians and social scientists of science, technology, and medicine discuss their collaborative work to develop and deploy “embedded connections” in the humanities and STEM fields.
Join us for a Fellow in Focus lecture on the joy, challenge, and urgency of writing about our environments.
Louis Gerdelan shows how interactions among scientists, doctors, astrologers, and churchmen formed the foundations of modern disaster reporting.