STORIES

The Collapse of Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation Flash Panel

On February 1st, 2019 President Trump and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, announced that the U.S. would begin pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. In an effort to understand what this means, the College of Liberal Arts and the School of History, Philosophy and Religion organized a flash panel. The panel was held […]

Biodiversity and The History of Scientific Environments

On October 30, 2018 the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion and the Environmental Arts and Humanities hosted the Biodiversity and the History of Scientific Environments workshop as part of Oregon State University’s Horning Endowment Series lectures. The workshop brought together members of the community, students, faculty, and visiting scholars to help explore and analyze […]

Acorns to Climate Change: Bowcutt lecture brings together humanities and science

It’s been over a month ago now but I wanted to share some reflections on an interdisciplinary, interdepartmental talk that was organized by graduate students in the College of Forestry and in School of History, Philosophy, and Religion here at OSU. In Jacob Hamblin’s Environmental History seminar last year, I (Tamara Caulkins, PhD candidate, History […]