Lorraine Daston, executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and professor in the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago, will give this year’s Lunn Lecture, “The Strange Modernity of Science,” on Thursday, April 12.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff will give the 2017 Lunn Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, May 3. Her talk is titled, “In the Archives: Getting a Life.”