Lectures, Podcasts, & Recent Talks
Recent Lectures & Talks
2026
Upcoming November 2026, Princeton Adult School, Claire R. Jacobus Lecture Series on Truth and Beauty: A Celebration of Wonder, “Animal Tales, Curious Scientists, and the Advantages of Being Slow.”
July 2026, 19th Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences, Growth, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Ischia, Italy, Interlude 1: “Long-term Science and the Advantages of Slow Growth,” and Interlude 2: “Art, Empire, and Cycles of Growth.”
April 2026, Roots and Routes: Research, Resilience, and Reimagination, Princeton University Graduate School, Inclusive Academy, “Save Yourself, Mammal!”
April 2026, Princeton University Graduate School, 3 Minute Thesis Competition, Faculty Panel, “The Advantage of Being Slow.”
2025
January 2025, Works in Progress, Davis Center, Princeton University, “Hyena & the Jay: Modern Fables for a Scientific World.”
July 2025, International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand, “Paperback Writer: The Evolving Market for Scientific Memoirs in the Decades after the Second World War.”
August 2025, Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD, “Ecologists and the infinite archive: crafting scientific histories of animals after the Second World War.”
August 2025, European Society for Environmental History,Uppsala, Sweden, “Animal Epics: Crafting Generational Tales of Behavior in the Wild.”
October 2025, History of Science Brown Bag Series, History Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Scientific Fables: Crafting Generational Tales of Behavior in the Wild.”
Podcasts
HPS Podcast: S4 Ep 10 - Erika Milam on 'Colloquial Science'
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (20 November 2024): link.
"These conversations are the focus of fierce debate, not because scientists lack authority, but because these are the intellectual battles worth fighting. These are the stakes on which modern society depends."
“Illuminations Episode 7: Mirrors of Morality”
Illuminations, Produced by Simon Brown and Maria Devlin McNair, Ministry of Ideas (19 April 2023): link.
“Erika Milam on Human Nature in Cold War America”
In Theory: The Journal of the History of Ideas Podcast, with Disha Karnad Jani (9 September 2020): link.
“Planet of the Killer Apes”
Science Friday’s Undiscovered with Annie Minoff and Elah Feder (27 November 2019): link.