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Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:15-17:45
History and Philosophy of Science long list
This is a list of seminars, workshops and special lectures happening throughout the University that are relevant to History and Philosophy of Science. Please contact David Thompson if you would like a talk or series included in this list.
The more concise Department of History and Philosophy of Science list shows only the Department’s own talks.
Contact: David Thompson
21 upcoming talks View 2515 archived talks
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'Measure once, cut twice': values and validity in youth mental health measurement
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The birth of scientific anti-racism
β οΈ Please note earlier time
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Schleiermacher on Masse and Monarch
Cabinet of Natural History
Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection
Darwin College Lecture Series
How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song
Coffee with Scientists
Research on research
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sex as a process
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Book symposium on Matteo Vagelli's 'Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science'
Early Science and Medicine
Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770β1800)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Title to be confirmed
Cabinet of Natural History
Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections
Darwin College Lecture Series
Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past.
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45
Cabinet of Natural History
Kew Gardens Panel β Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Darwin College Lecture Series
Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
AI, automation, and the problem of error in science
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Churchill's secret chart-makers
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Revolutionary Linkages across Iran, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, 1904 - 1908
Cabinet of Natural History
The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature
Darwin College Lecture Series
Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940β70s)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seminar Postponed
Darwin College Lecture Series
Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Permission to know
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Republic of Beavers'
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium
Darwin College Lecture Series
Songs We Grow By
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The secret causes of the Castle Bravo accident
Early Science and Medicine
Experimenting on/with eels: colonial space and electric knowledge construction in the 18th century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Does Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics
Cabinet of Natural History
Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Childhood education and the fertility decline in England and Wales, 1870-1911
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In the Shadow of Minority Rights
Darwin College Lecture Series
Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Free souls, poor soils: the nature of slave emancipation in postcolonial Uruguay
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A conceptual framework for reactivity in social scientific measurement
Early Science and Medicine
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Gendering Intellectual Labour in Interwar Central Europe and Exile: Marie Jahoda and Hilda Weiss
Cabinet of Natural History
Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil
Coffee with Scientists
'Behavioural epidemiology': what triggers and enables large-scale behavioural change?
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Coercion and Markets: reconciling economic and social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Navigating origin stories: the mariner's compass as a narrative instrument
β οΈ Anita McConnell Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Kuhn and Feyerabend on pluralism, education and history
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In Defence of Universities: Knowledge and its Enemies in Early Modern Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture
Coffee with Scientists
Vaccine communication and policy
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Woodland and the Medieval Economic Expansion: a Comparative Perspective on North-West Europe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Institutionalizing values and science: the strengths of standardization in troubled times
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The Apgar score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Cinematic Cartography
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Theory of American Populism
Cabinet of Natural History
Who was Henslow?
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
War and Prices: Austerity and the Cost of Living Index in Britain (c. 1939-1950)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reservoirs of venereal diseases: women and medico-moral discourses in Idi Amin's Uganda
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The myth of the naΓ―ve empiricist
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Macedonianism of Fear: Aristotle versus Rawls
Cabinet of Natural History
Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH, 1892-1939
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
When is measurement good? Evidence, validity, and values
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does artificial creativity require artificial consciousness?
Early Science and Medicine
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607β1610
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and German Public Law
Cabinet of Natural History
Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation
Coffee with Scientists
Phenomenological control in the laboratory
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Largest Air-Conditioned Room in the World: Houston and the History of Climate Change
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire β book launch event
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is historical mathematics largely true?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Mosca and the Ruling Class
Cabinet of Natural History
Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Mary Hesse Lecture
How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity
β οΈ Second Annual Mary Hesse Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Do mathematical explanations impose a necessity on the natural world?
Early Science and Medicine
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern British life writing
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Censors and Recalls: Rousseau on Elite Accountability
Cabinet of Natural History
Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Settlement of the Poor in England c. 1660β1780: Law, Family, and Community
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Hacks and explanations via program execution
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c. 1848-1914
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930β1940
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Born in Smog: The Health Consequences of Historical Air Pollution
British Society for the History of Science
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments
β οΈ CANCELLED
Coffee with Scientists
Science advice under uncertainty
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Violence and emigration; evidence from early modern Corsica.β
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
But what is 'performativity of science'?
Cabinet of Natural History
Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?
Rausing Lecture
But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure
β οΈ Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala
Coffee with Scientists
TheCultureLab
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mobilizing medicine
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The pragmatic vindication of warranted belief
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Title to be confirmed
Cabinet of Natural History
Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction?
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The public speaks back: health communication in Britain, 1980s-2020.β **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION**
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Aristotle on what geometry is about
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860
Cabinet of Natural History
Vere, Lady Lynch (1647β1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Precision and active knowledge: measuring the fundamental physical constants, 1967β2018
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Experimental Democracy
Cabinet of Natural History
'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Doing your own patient activist research
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Challenges in estimating historical crisis mortality: spatial heterogeneity, endogenous incompleteness, sample size, and ad hoc methods.β
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disinformation, denial, and the assault on truth
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The relationship between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics: the irregular case
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mortality in the century of apartheid, 1940-1970: spatial and racial inequalities in mortality and doctors during the antibiotic transition.β
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Progress is plural because science is social
Early Science and Medicine
What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens
Darwin College Lecture Series
Decoding our Humanity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creativity for the information age: making up minds and machines in the United States and the Soviet Union
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Trust in the fallible: lessons from uncertainty management in the environmental sciences
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How TV made 'The Naked Ape'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623
Darwin College Lecture Series
Polari - a Very Queer Code
Coffee with Scientists
Group selection and Ronald Fisher
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery
β οΈ Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Transport and the transmission of plague across settlements in early modern England.β
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Title to be confirmed
Early Science and Medicine
Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech
Cabinet of Natural History
'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996β2004
Darwin College Lecture Series
Wayfinding through the Human Genome
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where is Amazonia on display (today)? A global approach to understanding Amazonian collections
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Values in measurement: alternatives to democratic alignment in economic inequality metrics
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
βA peculiar survey β¦ for our peculiar purposeβ: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Post-Kantian Perfectionism
Cabinet of Natural History
A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic
Darwin College Lecture Series
Eve's Byte of the Apple
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On conceptual engineering in psychiatry: is it time to eliminate or reappropriate the category of psychiatric disorder?
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Progress in the pipeline: cholera, politics and the waterworks revolution in Germany.β
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Trustworthiness, moral epistemic-duties, and public health guidance: the case of wildfire smoke
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom
Cabinet of Natural History
Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?
Coffee with Scientists
The evolution of sentience
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science as communication
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia
Cabinet of Natural History
University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks
Darwin College Lecture Series
Using Maths to Decode the Universe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Recalculating equality: data, race and environmental health models in 19th-century West Africa
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
People, places, and peers - fertility trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881-1911.β β
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On the Reception of Christian Thomasius's Political Thought in Protestant Northern Germany
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914β15) and Cambridge
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pulling away from science, epistemic self-reliance, and the tale of Thabo Mbeki
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900'
Darwin College Lecture Series
Bits with Soul
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Escape from Biology: Highlighting the Differences Between the Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of the Modern World
Early Science and Medicine
The smallpox epidemic in 18th-century Tibet: theories, preventions and inoculations
β οΈ CANCELLED
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Arabization and the Social Sciences in Algeria: Language, Pan-Arabism, and Nation-Building
Cabinet of Natural History
Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A domino theory of disease
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century
Cabinet of Natural History
The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Symposium: 'Patient-Centered Measurement' (2024)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The many births of the test-tube baby: proof and publicity in claims to a breakthrough
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697β1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England
Cabinet of Natural History
The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Sixty Eears after Fogelβs Social Savings: Measuring the Growth Impact of Railways in the Periphery
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses
β οΈ Anita McConnell Lecture
Early Science and Medicine
Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300β1550)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Locke's Political Legacy
Cabinet of Natural History
'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813β1850
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is science 'Western' science?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history
β οΈ CANCELLED
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Models of information in structural biology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Examining the possibility of AI Affect in reinforcement learning systems
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'
Cabinet of Natural History
'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Industrialisation, Economic Development, the Industrial Revolution and Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1500 β 1911 (with some extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011)
Mary Hesse Lecture
In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming
β οΈ First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Establishing a scientific fact from complex evidence: the earth's variable rotation
Early Science and Medicine
Garga's knowledge of the crow (vΔyasavidyΔ) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Book symposium: The Edge of Sentience
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Oikonomia of Conspiracy
Cabinet of Natural History
A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Royal Justice, Society and Economy in Medieval England: Evidence from Derbyshire
Rausing Lecture
Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durΓ©e
β οΈ Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Plague strikes back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361β62 and its demographic consequences in England and Wales
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science
Early Science and Medicine
Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465β1700
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Enlightenment Theory of Rights
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Researching the possible effects of the New Poor Law of 1834 on the health of the population of England and Wales
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The global health focus on early life: origin stories
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece
Cabinet of Natural History
Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The cartographic commissions of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690β1749)
β οΈ Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link
Early Science and Medicine
Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of βCatastrophic Technologyβ and the Environmental Movement
Cabinet of Natural History
The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rights in Roman Republican Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice
Early Science and Medicine
Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300β1500
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts
Cabinet of Natural History
Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum
Darwin College Lecture Series
How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The United States of Europe, 1848β1914
Cabinet of Natural History
Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe
Darwin College Lecture Series
Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is AI generated art really art?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150β1350
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Des Moulins Γ Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850β1851
Cabinet of Natural History
Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769β1838
Darwin College Lecture Series
Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Controlling copying before copyright: a tale of three Britannias
β οΈ Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism
Cabinet of Natural History
Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840sβ1850s
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Exoplanet Revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Conceptualising climate futures
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Limit objects and emergence
Early Science and Medicine
Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650β1760
Cabinet of Natural History
The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer
Darwin College Lecture Series
A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers
Cabinet of Natural History
Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant
Darwin College Lecture Series
Are Revolutions Justified?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
In defense of the medical model of obesity
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups
Early Science and Medicine
Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700β1730
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective
Cabinet of Natural History
A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Genetic Revolutions
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
PhD Showcase
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions
Cabinet of Natural History
Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision
Darwin College Lecture Series
On the Disappointment of Revolutions
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The economic government of the world 1933-2023
β οΈ All welcome
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Unifying the notion of objectivity
Early Science and Medicine
The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Luis de Molina (1535β1600) and Atlantic Slavery
Cabinet of Natural History
Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)
β οΈ All welcome
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Lines endowed with lawful forceβ: the maps and drawings of the Wide Streets Commissioners, Dublin, 1758β1849.
β οΈ Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899β1933
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion
Cabinet of Natural History
Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914
β οΈ All welcome
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lifecycle of a constant: e
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community
β οΈ All welcome
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where inattention pays
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument
Cabinet of Natural History
Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914
β οΈ All welcome
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections
β οΈ McConnell Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Can anyone be a target of discrimination? Lessons from philosophy of science and work on human kinds
Early Science and Medicine
Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: βCatastrophic Technologyβ and the Environmental Movement
Cabinet of Natural History
Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy
β οΈ This seminar starts at 12noon
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) about the money
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lineages as evolving processes
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Locke and Slavery
Cabinet of Natural History
To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why we shouldn't democratise science
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What did SimΓ³n BolΓvar Owe to Charles V?
Cabinet of Natural History
Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR
β οΈ All welcome
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Personality in Machiavelli
Rausing Lecture
Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene
β οΈ Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
In defence of dimensions
Early Science and Medicine
The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view
Cabinet of Natural History
The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Bayesian explanationism
Cabinet of Natural History
Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Not for me: on the external function of guilt
Early Science and Medicine
Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Theory of Restauration
Cabinet of Natural History
The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the SociΓ©tΓ© Royale de MΓ©decine in the French Enlightenment
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mapping the Miasmaβ. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ways of branchmaking
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932β1933 in Soviet Ukraine
Cabinet of Natural History
Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700β72
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise as perspectives in dialogue
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Can present-day philosophers make scientific contributions? From philosophy in science to conceptual and theoretical thinking in science
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Maps that made history: the map collections of Leiden University Library
β οΈ For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
β οΈ CANCELLED
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920
β οΈ Cancelled due to industrial action
Early Science and Medicine
Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain
Darwin College Lecture Series
Isolation of atomic mechanisms β the choreographer at play
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890β1960
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Truth and Loyalty
Cabinet of Natural History
Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression
Cabinet of Natural History
Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England
Darwin College Lecture Series
Are we alone in the Universe?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rationalizing discrimination
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Remapping and place naming in 'Beautiful Dachau'
β οΈ Please register for the talk at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remapping-and-place-naming-in-beautiful-dachau-by-alan-marcus-on-zoom-tickets-532066434027
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Longue DurΓ©e: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues
Cabinet of Natural History
The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century
β οΈ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science
β οΈ CANCELLED
Political Thought and Intellectual History
TBA
Cabinet of Natural History
Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Antarctica:Isolated Continent
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The causal structure of cultural domination
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940β1990
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations
Cabinet of Natural History
Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Closeting of Secrets
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?
Early Science and Medicine
Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680β1688
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens
Cabinet of Natural History
Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office
β οΈ Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer
Darwin College Lecture Series
On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Against presence empiricism
Early Science and Medicine
'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820β1850
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Felonsβ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600
β οΈ All welcome
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'
Cabinet of Natural History
Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600β1750
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Identifying future-proof science
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett
β οΈ For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery
β οΈ Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
Cabinet of Natural History
Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems
Early Science and Medicine
From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670β1750)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law
Cabinet of Natural History
From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851β1921
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization
Early Science and Medicine
Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
A Respectable Living and Womenβs Work, England, 1270-1860
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'Put on my tomb: this is what she was trying for': the extraordinary life of Margaret Masterman
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950sβ1990s
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age
β οΈ Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Coloniality, global health, and reparations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Worries about philosopher experts
Early Science and Medicine
Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of SΓ©bastien Le Clerc (1637β1714)
Cabinet of Natural History
'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Necessity of Bubbles
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Jessica Pattersonβs (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'
Cabinet of Natural History
The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries
Cabinet of Natural History
Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America
Cabinet of Natural History
Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach
Cabinet of Natural History
Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552β1580)
Rausing Lecture
Environing technologies β shaping, seeing, sense-making
β οΈ Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Legal Histories beyond the State
Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought
β οΈ Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance
Early Science and Medicine
Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art
Cabinet of Natural History
Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The idea of the Indigenous map: examples from the RGS-IBG collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea
Early Science and Medicine
Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade
Cabinet of Natural History
The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning (to learn) from others
Legal Histories beyond the State
Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Propertiesβ
β οΈ Paper available for pre-reading
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On the nonexistence of moralometers
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935β2010
β οΈ Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday
Cabinet of Natural History
The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655β1659)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer
Cabinet of Natural History
Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge
β οΈ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food and Cultural History
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Epistemic bunkers
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food as Expression
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927
β οΈ CANCELLED
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries
Legal Histories beyond the State
Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands
β οΈ The paper will be made available before the seminar
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
β οΈ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
X-rays and Food Safety
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928β1955
β οΈ CANCELLED
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i
Cabinet of Natural History
Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food, Power and Society
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences
Early Science and Medicine
Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)
Cabinet of Natural History
What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India
Darwin College Lecture Series
Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction
Cabinet of Natural History
Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food and Climate Change
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico
Early Science and Medicine
Lovesickness (ΚΏishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200β1520)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment
Cabinet of Natural History
Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories
β οΈ Online only
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causal explanation and revealed preferences
Legal Histories beyond the State
Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought
β οΈ Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance
Early Science and Medicine
Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989
Cabinet of Natural History
Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy
β οΈ Online only
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Making money in the early Middle Ages
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Physical computations are idealisations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Climate storylines and managing uncertainty
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
At the limits of China: frontiers, borders, and political geography in early modern Sino-Western cartographic exchanges
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects
Cabinet of Natural History
The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Tropical development
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing
Early Science and Medicine
Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Thought of Charles Malik
Cabinet of Natural History
The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold
β οΈ McConnell Lecture
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595β1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?
β οΈ CANCELLED
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531β1653
Cabinet of Natural History
Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk
Cabinet of Natural History
The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge
β οΈ Special session, 10am, online only
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelliβs Discourses on Livy
Cabinet of Natural History
'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror
Rausing Lecture
The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world
β οΈ Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Early Science and Medicine
Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500βc.1800
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany
Cabinet of Natural History
The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771β1832
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Capitalism β a concept too big to fail?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion
Cabinet of Natural History
The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic
Early Science and Medicine
The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable: Max SkjΓΆnsberg, "The Persistence of Party"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
Cabinet of Natural History
Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization
Political Thought and Intellectual History
James Bryce and the concepts of constitution
Cabinet of Natural History
Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Futures
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao
β οΈ Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sir William Pettyβs Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State
Cabinet of Natural History
Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
World models and intuition in the 1970s
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890β1940
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Separation of Powers as a New Theory
Cabinet of Natural History
Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800β1850
Darwin College Lecture Series
Blood Sculptures
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of Chinaβs mortality decline in recent decades
β οΈ Note unusual time
Early Science and Medicine
Birth, fate, and Roman futures
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and Italian Political Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road
Darwin College Lecture Series
Cold Blood
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900β1939
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771β1810s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification
Cabinet of Natural History
Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge
Darwin College Lecture Series
Blood villains and heros
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Drawing processes
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography
β οΈ Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link
Early Science and Medicine
Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Experiencing Republican Texts
Cabinet of Natural History
Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700
Darwin College Lecture Series
Bloodlines of the British
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Guerrilla warfare as sampling: AmΓlcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant's 'True Politics'
Cabinet of Natural History
A natural history of evil
Darwin College Lecture Series
Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thucydidesβ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
Darwin College Lecture Series
Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Renaissance eugenics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Carl Schmitt in Leipzig β Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?
Cabinet of Natural History
Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773β1779)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Truth AND consequences
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power
Darwin College Lecture Series
Battle Blood
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How does process tracing work?
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to study animal minds
β οΈ HPS Virtual Conversation
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The Straits of Malacca-A Cartographic Journey using Nautical Sea Charts
β οΈ PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SPEAKER AND TITLE
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu
Cabinet of Natural History
Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Do we live in a post-truth era?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gender and generation in premodern Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality
Cabinet of Natural History
A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The UKβs disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Cabinet of Natural History
'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956β62
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A material history of 16th-century astronomy?
β οΈ Anita McConnell Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Learning from case studies
Early Science and Medicine
The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy
Cabinet of Natural History
Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979β2003
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The history of the electric charge c. 1897β1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960sβ80s)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State
Cabinet of Natural History
Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680β1830
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Writing the history of education as social and economic history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960β2020
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Science and speculation
Early Science and Medicine
The first Egyptian society
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Paine in the French Revolution
Cabinet of Natural History
Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975β1993
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion
Cabinet of Natural History
Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy
Cabinet of Natural History
Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s
β οΈ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Archaeological Mysteries
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Learning from sociological case studies
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa
β οΈ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Secret Soviet maps of Cambridge and the world
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Enigmatic Premodern Book
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues
β οΈ CANCELLED
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973
Early Science and Medicine
Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theoriesβ: Constructing βTory Democracyβ, 1881-1931
Cabinet of Natural History
Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Enigma of Emotion
Cabinet of Natural History
Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar
β οΈ Please note that this seminar is on a Friday
Legal Histories beyond the State
The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism
β οΈ There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The good news about killing people
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848
Darwin College Lecture Series
Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On pluralism in psychiatry
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937β1945)
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The search for invertebrate consciousness
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury
Cabinet of Natural History
Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India
Darwin College Lecture Series
Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism
Legal Histories beyond the State
Thinking Inside the Box: βModularβ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law
β οΈ There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Creativity and AI
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799β1925
Darwin College Lecture Series
Mysteries of Modern Physics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How atoms became real
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"
Cabinet of Natural History
'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900
Darwin College Lecture Series
Human Origins
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s
ReproSoc
Whose Biological Clock? Temporal Inevitability and Assisted Reproduction in Contemporary India
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern
Early Science and Medicine
Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia
β οΈ CANCELLED
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'
Coffee with Scientists
Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication
β οΈ CANCELLED
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
CANCELLED: The anatomy of Britainβs inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 βmillionaireβ population
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity
β οΈ CANCELLED
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Neoliberal Turn
Coffee with Scientists
1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pluralism about actual causation
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Geologist William Smith (1769-1839) and his struggles to both earn a living, and finance his scientific and cartographic projects to 1820
Early Science and Medicine
Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de StaΓ«l
Cabinet of Natural History
'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and the approximation account of knowledge
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The replication crisis and philosophy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur
Coffee with Scientists
What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13thβ16th centuries)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858β1899)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria β the evolutionary ABCs
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The science of childhood: postcolonial development in India, 1950s
Legal Histories beyond the State
Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations
β οΈ Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Political Economy of Serfdom: State Capacity and Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On validators for psychiatric categories
Early Science and Medicine
Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy
Cabinet of Natural History
The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740β1800
Coffee with Scientists
Pluralism and monism in design fixation research
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Making a name in mid-century mathematics: individuals, institutions and the open secret of Nicolas Bourbaki
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861β1913
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
Cabinet of Natural History
Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does science progress?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vicoβs La Scienza Nuova
Cabinet of Natural History
Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England
Rausing Lecture
Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence
β οΈ Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Early modern history of data and epistemology of form
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny
Cabinet of Natural History
Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864β1867)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry
Twentieth Century Think Tank
How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Follow the measures: conceptualization, measurement and interdisciplinarity in the science of empathy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London
Cabinet of Natural History
When is a cow not a cow?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The instrument of science
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Plantationβs Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective
Cabinet of Natural History
The politics of the potato in the 19th century
Legal Histories beyond the State
American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War
Legal Histories beyond the State
International Law's Objects: A Conversation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics
Early Science and Medicine
Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Languages of Constituent Power
Cabinet of Natural History
Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice
Darwin College Lecture Series
Perception of Visual Space
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
V-Dem: measuring democracy
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction
β οΈ CANCELLED
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
International Relations & History Working Group
Malcolm X, Human Rights, and A New World Picture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present
Cabinet of Natural History
The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections
Darwin College Lecture Series
Computer Vision
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK
Darwin College Lecture Series
Viewing the Universe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Beauty, truth and understanding
Early Science and Medicine
Giants and national identity in early modern Europe
International Relations & History Working Group
'Global History and the Place of the International'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism
Cabinet of Natural History
Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Appearance and Physical Reality
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A political history of apolitical science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Spatial experience: more than mere structure
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy museum on the move
Political Thought and Intellectual History
1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661β1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
Darwin College Lecture Series
Vision of Future Technology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Patient reported outcome measures are different
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Non-literal model interpretations
Early Science and Medicine
Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body
Cabinet of Natural History
Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire
Darwin College Lecture Series
Evolution of the Eye
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain
International Relations & History Working Group
Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection Rules
Cabinet of Natural History
Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies
Darwin College Lecture Series
Colour and Vision
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature
Legal Histories beyond the State
The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanatory directionality
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War
Cabinet of Natural History
Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums
β οΈ Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm
Darwin College Lecture Series
Visions
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Decolonising the history of science curriculum
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955β1964)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny
Legal Histories beyond the State
Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The C theory of time
Early Science and Medicine
Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Time-asymmetry in thermal physics
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825β1872
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Being human, being Homo sapiens
International Relations & History Working Group
"Leveraging 'Publicness' at the League of Nations: The Minority Question and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"
Legal Histories beyond the State
Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africaβs public sphere, 1960s-1970s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Memory: what is it good for?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Coercion in a Subjective World
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Probabilistic actual causation
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination
Early Science and Medicine
From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
Cabinet of Natural History
The Curious Martin Folkes (1690β1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century
International Relations & History Working Group
βCold Wars and the Academy: An Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studiesβ
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?
Cabinet of Natural History
Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in northeast China after the Communist Revolution
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948β1959
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Legal Histories beyond the State
'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanations for medical artificial intelligence
Early Science and Medicine
Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France
International Relations & History Working Group
Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations History with Case (1851-67)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion
Cabinet of Natural History
Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Women in banking: the introduction of the βPersonal Bankerβ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s
Twentieth Century Think Tank
How US science moved west: Boulder, Colorado and the development of US space sciences in mid-20th century America
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Many Molyneux Questions
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius
Cabinet of Natural History
The long-lost Paston Collection
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900
Legal Histories beyond the State
Histories of International Law, History within International Law: Questions of Method
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Before Trump: the neoliberalβilliberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction
Legal Histories beyond the State
Civitas and Regnum: Grotiusβ account of the sovereign entity in the De Iure Belli ac Pacis
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-RhΓ΄ne, South of France)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory
Cabinet of Natural History
Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834β1869
Rausing Lecture
Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa
β οΈ Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda
Legal Histories beyond the State
Universalizing the Promise of Empire
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A new way to defend the value free ideal for science
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)
Cabinet of Natural History
Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686β1756)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America
Legal Histories beyond the State
Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery
Cabinet of Natural History
Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864βc.1900)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Guard against temptation: team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The cardinal points and the structure of geographical knowledge in the early twelfth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Representation and the Fall
Cabinet of Natural History
Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenthβcentury British slave trade
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Statistical biases in peer review
Legal Histories beyond the State
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences
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International Relations & History Working Group
Raymond Aron, Jimmy Carter and the Neoconservative Origins of the Critique of International Human Rights
Cabinet of Natural History
The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks
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Darwin College Lecture Series
Animal Migration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people
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Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
What is the History of the Book?
Cabinet of Natural History
A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection
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Darwin College Lecture Series
Migration in Science
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine
Legal Histories beyond the State
CANCELLED in solidarity with strike action: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and the Unsettling of Mainstream Narratives of International Legal History
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity
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Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Strong Bonds, Affective Labour: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Work of History
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Michael Alexander Gage and the mapping of Liverpool, 1828β1836
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
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Cabinet of Natural History
How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge
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Darwin College Lecture Series
The Partition of India and Migration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disaggregating goods
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Early Science and Medicine
Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain
International Relations & History Working Group
Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Globalization
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy
Cabinet of Natural History
Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920sβ1930s
Darwin College Lecture Series
Disease Migration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The homelands of the plague: Soviet disease ecology in Central Asia, 1920sβ1950s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution
Cabinet of Natural History
Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees
Darwin College Lecture Series
Refugees and Migration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No interpretation of probability
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Mid-Twentieth Century Babyboom and the Role of Social Interaction. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury
Cabinet of Natural History
Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world
Darwin College Lecture Series
Art and Migration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sugar, science and the history of capitalism
Twentieth Century Think Tank
People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Dr Watson: the impending automation of medical diagnosis and treatment
Early Science and Medicine
Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill on Universal History
Cabinet of Natural History
The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846β63
Darwin College Lecture Series
Immigration and Freedom
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America
β οΈ Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Republicanism: A Difficult Partnership
Cabinet of Natural History
Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Black and British Migration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Making sense of art and science
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What's the point of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World?
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Why Malthus wasnβt African. Reviewing explanations and implications of low population densities in pre-1900 Sub-Saharan Africa
Legal Histories beyond the State
Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Representing and explaining: the eikonic conception of explanation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany
Cabinet of Natural History
A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Using 'big data' to explore household and family structures in England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Before the big bang of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 250 years of astronomy in South Africa
International Relations & History Working Group
Writing the History of Transnational Spaces:A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Quantum Bayesianism: the ineffable reality behind 'participatory realism'
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
In Everestβs footsteps: surveying the legacies of the Great Trigonometrical Survey in India
Early Science and Medicine
Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Jon Elster's Sour Grapes
Cabinet of Natural History
From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A bold hypothesis about pursuit
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The structure of structure: how Kuhn establishes that science requires historical explanation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Reviving analytical philosophy of history
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts
Cabinet of Natural History
Iron holds the whale
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the two kingdoms of Sicily
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Neuro-empire: rise of a medical-scientific discipline in modern Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causal decision theory and tragic evidence: Death in Damascus revisited
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new approach with new findings
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Yet another unity of science? Latin American challenges to history, philosophy and social studies of scientific knowledge
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'The battle is on': Lakatos, Feyerabend and the student protests
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585β86
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the People and the State in Early America
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Cabinet of Natural History
Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Cloth consumption and commercialisation in the Western Mediterranean before the Black Death
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A contagious cause: the search for cancer viruses and the growth of American biomedicine
International Relations & History Working Group
Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited
Legal Histories beyond the State
Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The principle of stability
Early Science and Medicine
Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Genres of prediction: astrology between Sanskrit and Hindi print in colonial north India
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A struggle for the Soviet future: the birth of scientific forecasting in the Soviet Union
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800β1850
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Great European Famine of 1315-7 revisited: nature, institutions and demography
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation
β οΈ Please note earlier time
Early Science and Medicine
Joachim Wtewael and the human body
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke
Cabinet of Natural History
On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Respectable banking: the search for stability in Londonβs money and credit markets since 1695
Twentieth Century Think Tank
German Γ©migrΓ© scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India
International Relations & History Working Group
Hitler's biography
Cabinet of Natural History
Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask
Legal Histories beyond the State
The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States
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Philosophy Events
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Listening to the chirps: how do the LIGO results test general relativity?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific habits circa 1900
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The Theory Theory 2.0: Bayesian models, causal inference and cognitive development
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer β from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate
Cabinet of Natural History
Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783β4
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Commodities, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American Settlement after Napoleon
Rausing Lecture
The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?
β οΈ Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Listening to scientists' stories: using the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' archive
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian
Cabinet of Natural History
Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The materials for trust-building in expertise
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Shifting formats, changing priorities in the modern Chinese materia medica genre: from Zhao Yuhuang's single items to drugs in acupuncture channels
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Changing trends in mapping estates in the Welsh border counties during the eighteenth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment
Cabinet of Natural History
When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals
ReproSoc
The Maternal Body as Environment
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why the priority rule does not exist
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905β1940s
Cabinet of Natural History
Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Reporting from Extreme Environments
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The gifts of Athena revisited: protectionism, regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700β1800
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The Anthropocene seen by the Anopheles: fighting malarial mosquitoes with chemicals in modern China, 1910sβ1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A biologically informed hylomorphism
Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)
A lab of oneβs own: science & suffrage in the First World War
Early Science and Medicine
The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The future of the world. A new history of the future
Cabinet of Natural History
James Cuninghame β 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Ageing
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Disappearing big cats and multiplying man-eaters in the Indian Anthropocene
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ecological factors of attraction and causal explanation in cultural attractor theory
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Grotius on natural law and supererogation
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history and the antiquarian
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Politics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Animal sentience and human values
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Towards a more realistic subjective decision theory
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
From curiosity to treasure: Mr Selden's map of China
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980β2000
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar's Concept and its Contemporary Import
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Foreign-born migrants in the Integrated Census Microdata, 1851-1911
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extremes of the Universe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On reasonable doubt
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pragmatist coherence as the source of truth and reality
Early Science and Medicine
The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Cajetan, Suarez and republican liberty: A theme in later scholastic political thought
Cabinet of Natural History
Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Rowing
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Emblematic alchemy: Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1617/18)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The Grammar of the Semi-Exact Sciences': Norbert Wiener in India, 1955β1956
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Delusional cognition as explanation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In His Veins the Blood of Kings: Thucydides in the Renaissance
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Drainage and water supply in 18th century London
Cabinet of Natural History
The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768β1771
Darwin College Lecture Series
Dealing with Extremism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The greening alliance: environment, development and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why common cause explanation is not the main business of historical reconstruction
Early Science and Medicine
Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Transformation of International Economics during the Great Depression
Cabinet of Natural History
Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970β2008
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Events and How to Live with Them
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emperor's Two Bodies: Mirrored Sovereignty, the Code Civil, and Napoleon's New Men
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Placing the dead in 18th century European metropolis: institutions, economy, beliefs
Cabinet of Natural History
Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Weather
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Industrialisation, inter-sectoral linkage and occupational structure: Britain, Germany and Japan, c.1850-1935
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Imaging the cytoskeleton β re-defining a biological entity with fluorescent antibodies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Assessing scientific theories
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From royalism to the mystical body of Christ: The interwar revolution in French Catholic political theology
Cabinet of Natural History
Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales between 1600 and 1850
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Newton's laws and epistemic amplification
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Ink, Paper, Brass and Glass: Marine Charts and Charting in the Nineteenth Century
Early Science and Medicine
Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Colonialism, Race and Slavery in Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes
Cabinet of Natural History
The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Inequality and social mobility in medieval England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The hubris of youth? Oxford, Cambridge and the Arctic, c.1920β1940
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A science in translation: homoeopathy in colonial Bengal
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What makes econophysics distinctive?
Early Science and Medicine
From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750β1830)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
French revolutionary thought and the early Third Republic
Cabinet of Natural History
Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Embodied and situated moods
Lady Margaret Lectures
Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Delusional cognition as explanation
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics
Cabinet of Natural History
Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The growth of sanitary intervention in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Theorising Democracy beyond βStateβ and βSocietyβ
Cabinet of Natural History
After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787β1810
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Labouring in early modern London
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mechanisms and natural kinds
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A controlled environment: phytotrons, Cold War life science, and the making of the experimental plant
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Risk aversion and the long run
Early Science and Medicine
The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From state to society, through sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The economics of the βSecond Slaveryβ in the Jihad states of West Africa
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Some sociological aspects of the detection of gravitational waves
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Comparative uncertainties: comparing comparisons in anthropology and animal behaviour science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Belief and statistical evidence
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy confronts diversity: Deliberation and representation in Victorian Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798β1820
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Patterning within the disturbance of coherence': the practical work of measuring and classifying infant disorganised attachment
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Using organic chemistry to probe the limits of interventionism
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reflections on Inequality, Respect, and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft
Cabinet of Natural History
'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Images as artefacts: film, photography and repatriation in Kenya
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
The emergence of bargaining inequity
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The inconsistency of quantum electrodynamics: a history
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
White Lies and Alibis: Litigants, Lawyers and Law in Fourteenth-Century York Marriage Disputes
Cabinet of Natural History
The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance
Rausing Lecture
Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age
β οΈ Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The pre-history of peer review: refereeing practices at the Royal Society
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Consignatio Hoc Calamitoso Tempore Pestis: Mortality Specifics of the Plague Year 1680 in Bohemia
Cabinet of Natural History
Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities
Coffee with Scientists
How to study fire
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Why genetics succeeds: an epistemology of scientific practice
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Unveiling the world? Aerial photographs and the social sciences in interwar France
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No general structure
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A Taste for Virtue: Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and Rousseau's Political Thought
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Feeling the Squeeze: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality during the Demographic Transition
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661β1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism
Coffee with Scientists
The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two sovereign masters: pain, pleasure and utility from Bentham to Skinner
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What's nu? Maxwell's electrical metrology and the electromagnetic theory of light reappraised
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Alexander Ogg (1811-65): surveyor, farmer and gold prospector, Aberdeenshire and New Zealand
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From βEnemies of the Crossβ To βBrethren in Faithβ: Empire, Decolonization, and the Curious End of Europeβs Religious Wars
Cabinet of Natural History
Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species
Coffee with Scientists
How should scientists quantify academic value?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The science of wishing: Francis Bacon and the magical optative
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Builders of the vision
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Hierarchical transition modes of biological systems are evolvable
Coffee with Scientists
Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Unifying theories: some lessons from the Cartwright-Smith exchange
Early Science and Medicine
Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The cause of all our troubles: the American invention of isolationism in World War II
Cabinet of Natural History
The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Game Theory of Conflict
Coffee with Scientists
The second messenger concept β how the discovery of cyclic AMP dominated cell biology for 60 years
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading Rivière in early modern England: tracing early modern epistemic itineraries
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'A day of comparatively small things': spatial anxiety in the high British Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Prediction and medicine
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Games Animals Play
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cunning, killer orchids
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Entangled histories: enactivism, representationalism and Frederic Bartlett
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Plans of London buildings drawn c.1450-1720
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Polis and the Res Publica: Two Arendtian Models of Political Violence
Cabinet of Natural History
Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Games for the Brain
Coffee with Scientists
Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Was geology the first science to inject history into the natural world?
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Brainwashing the cybernetic subject: The Ipcress File and fantasies of interrogation in the 1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanatory abstractions
Early Science and Medicine
A literary history of medicine: the world's earliest history of medicine, composed in Syria by the physician and poet Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah (d. 1270)
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
A Match Made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century
Cabinet of Natural History
Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics
Darwin College Lecture Series
"Losing the New Great Game"
Coffee with Scientists
Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Translating embodied skill: the politics of writing about making in the early modern period
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Measurement error and the problem of quantity individuation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Francois Chatelet and the Spatial Turn in French Postwar Thought
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Did family matter? Family systems, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in historical Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical
Darwin College Lecture Series
Games in Sports
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The impact of machines
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
A Fossil Feast: 31 December 1853, Sydenham Park, London
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century
Cabinet of Natural History
John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664
Darwin College Lecture Series
Wittgenstein's Games
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Extracting the exotic: global chymical medicine in the seventeenth century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
CSER and the Leverhulme CFI: how, what and where next
Early Science and Medicine
Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam
β οΈ This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Constitution and Sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Cabinet of Natural History
Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Game of Crime and Punishment
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does time seem to pass?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880β1950
Coffee with Scientists
The Scharnhorst Effect: faster-than-light propagation and causality in the Casimir vacuum
Cabinet of Natural History
'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment
Darwin College Lecture Series
Personal Principles and the Political Game
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients
Coffee with Scientists
Science education
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On geometrical concepts, proofs and understanding in pure and applied mathematics
Early Science and Medicine
Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world
Political Thought and Intellectual History
How to run the world: conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracyβ
Cabinet of Natural History
From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' β the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886β1924
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Negotiating 'applied science' in the early 1930s: new media, new discourses, new ideology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Three junctures of science and democracy: knowledge, value and policy
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The map that would save Europe: the tariff walls map and the politics of cartographic display between the wars
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Max Weber and some intellectual consequences of the war
Cabinet of Natural History
Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s
Wolfson College Science Society
Human embryos: a visual history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Electricity and crystallography: the history and philosophy of Curie's Principle
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker?β
Cabinet of Natural History
The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England
Coffee with Scientists
Behavioural flexibility in birds and beyond
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Magic bullets
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Absolute measures of effectiveness
Early Science and Medicine
On the political use of physiognomy around 1500
β οΈ This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s
Cabinet of Natural History
Systems, synonyms and strife β the making of European entomology around 1800
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Winston's Gestapo': Churchill, the Royal Society and scientific secrecy before the Bomb
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Imprecise credences and the probabilistic liar
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From Cameralism to nineteenth-century socialism: Lorenz Stein's idea of a science of society
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Patents, powders, profits: the background to and legal significance of the patent infringement trial Nobel's Explosives Co. v Anderson (1894)
Cabinet of Natural History
Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France
Coffee with Scientists
A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Questions and questionnaires: knowledge, evidences and rituals of speaking in the early modern period
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Simulating scientific merit dynamics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
How (Not) To Draw Contemporary Insights From The History of Political Thought
Coffee with Scientists
Making archaeological knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Expecting misleading evidence
Early Science and Medicine
Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Smith and Rousseau, After Hume and Mandeville
Cabinet of Natural History
Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison
β οΈ Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On the movements and value of research data
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The argument from the good lot: unconceived alternatives and 20th-century genetics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931
Cabinet of Natural History
Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History
β οΈ Please note earlier start time of 12.10pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available at the start.
ReproSoc
Human Embryos: A History in Series
Philosophy Events
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: 'Partiality'
HPS History Workshop
Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Female labourers in early nineteenth-century rural Flanders. What's in a name?
HPS History Workshop
Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge
Rausing Lecture
Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview
β οΈ Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Idealization, abstraction and the ontic view of explanation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The influence of infant feeding and disease morbidity on children's growth: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1893-1919
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Intolerant bodies: on biological individuality and writing with scientists
HPS History Workshop
John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
There is no problem of interpersonal comparisons
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Conceptions of Social Pathology in Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant
Cabinet of Natural History
The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The beauty of science without the science of beauty
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
International Paretianism: a palatable response to climate change?
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Maps and seafarers in the English Channel (eighteenth century)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sovereignty and Representation in Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the 19th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Bypassing the brave new world: reporting transgenic mice in the early 1980s
HPS History Workshop
Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
From the biological self to psychological self
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Cabinet of Natural History
Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909
Early Science and Medicine
The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710β1790): creating a digital edition
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constantβs Debate on Lying
Cabinet of Natural History
Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution
Darwin College Lecture Series
Technology Development
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890β1925
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Performing and mediating science on television
HPS History Workshop
Newtonian politics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950sβ1970s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Early Hobbes
Cabinet of Natural History
Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600β1800
Darwin College Lecture Series
Economic Development
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Psychometric validation as theory avoidance
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the Polar oceans
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Malthus and the South Sea
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The art of ruling minds": Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal
Cabinet of Natural History
Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature
Darwin College Lecture Series
Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The epidemiologist as culture hero: visualising humanity in the age of 'the next pandemic'
HPS History Workshop
The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)
Early Science and Medicine
Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626β1694)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Is there a republican model of democracy?
Cabinet of Natural History
Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650β1720
Darwin College Lecture Series
Development of Climate Science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Political Science before Hobbes: the Aristotelian tradition
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Revisiting the Urban Graveyard Debate: An analysis of mortality differences between natives and migrants in North-Western European port cities: Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1930
Cabinet of Natural History
Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770β1821)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Developing a Sense of Self
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cause, causatives and theories of causation
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' β the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films
HPS History Workshop
Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550β1750
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The city and the soul in James Harrington's Republicanism
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality in Tartu (Estonia), 1897-1900
Cabinet of Natural History
'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Development of Galaxies
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rationality of science in relation to its history
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain
Darwin College Lecture Series
Development of an Athlete
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colour me alchemical, or: form, execution and function in alchemical illustrations
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Poster display tactics as photographic arguments
HPS History Workshop
Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The subterranean influence of pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein
Early Science and Medicine
Casta paintings and the colonial body
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia
Darwin College Lecture Series
Reprogramming Animal Development
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation and prediction in epidemiology
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Cabinet of Natural History
Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Indecent science: religion, science and movie censorship, 1930β1968
HPS History Workshop
Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Interventionist causation and the placement problem
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Early-modern maps in mirror image
Early Science and Medicine
Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500β1720: a case-study of the South West
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dystopia: For Dummies
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Title to be confirmed
β οΈ Please note change of date and time
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Age of iron, age of gold: the Thirty Years War, the German reformed diaspora, and the golden age of the Dutch universities
HPS History Workshop
Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history
β οΈ Please note change of date
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860β1960
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Cabinet of Natural History
W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Visual STS
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Things don't fall apart: persistence and functional explanation in social science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A strange afterlife: Pierre Berault and the meaning of Aristotelianism in the late seventeenth century
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663β1666
Early Science and Medicine
Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology"
Cabinet of Natural History
The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830β1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New perspectives on the Great Exhibition
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Brownian motion pictures
HPS History Workshop
'Crackpots' and 'active researchers': the string wars, arXiv and the blogosphere
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Farewell to content
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence"
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933β1972
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Nietzsche's Perfect State
Cabinet of Natural History
Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850sβ1930s)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The realist stance
β οΈ Note unusual day and time
HPS History Workshop
'Illuminating effects': visual culture and the exhibition of lighthouses in Victorian London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Accuracy-first epistemology
Early Science and Medicine
John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism
Cabinet of Natural History
Jean AndrΓ© Peyssonnel and the coral island
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Nature, culture and philosophy
β οΈ Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens
HPS History Workshop
Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885β1914
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Making sense of the Whipple Museumβs Muggletonian astronomical prints
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Representationalism and pragmatism
Philosophy Events
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Acting and Thinking Together
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Long-term changes in sickness among young men in Sweden, 1851-1930: Evidence from military sources
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Task-indexed belief
HPS History Workshop
The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy
Cabinet of Natural History
Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750β1830
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The influence of neo-Kantian structural realism on the modernist aesthetics of TS Eliot and James Joyce
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
HPS History Workshop
Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality
Rausing Lecture
Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa
β οΈ Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire
Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars
The discipline called 'The history and philosophy of science' is over a century old. 'The history and philosophy of [structural] engineering' is still an infant.
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is empathy? A genealogical account
Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series
Machines and Markets: The Island Matching Engine and the Inversion of Finance
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
There are mechanisms β and then there are mechanisms
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A sociology of algorithms: high-frequency trading and the shaping of markets
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation
β οΈ POSTPONED
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The implications of the relationship between height and mortality for historical demography. Evidence from contextual and individual approaches in 19th-Century Spain
Cabinet of Natural History
Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence
HPS History Workshop
The first Human Genome Project: computers and the mapping of human genes, 1950β1970
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The special science dilemma and how culture solves it
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Land surveying in the post-Roman West
Cabinet of Natural History
Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica
Twentieth Century Think Tank
X-rayed maize and mutant marigolds: a history of early plant biotechnologies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The scientific method: ignorance, uncertainty, doubt, failure...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1770-1834
Cabinet of Natural History
William Courten (1642β1702) and natural history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap
HPS History Workshop
Dinosaurs don't die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854β2001
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Nomic truth approximation by revising models and postulates in the light of increasing evidence
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935
β οΈ Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & Metaphor
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The prospects for Darwinian imperialism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Generic speech acts and social kinds
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Triangulation of phenomena
Early Science and Medicine
From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections
Cabinet of Natural History
What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & Economic Collapse
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Harrisonomastix: dismantling the connection between experimental religion and experimental science in early modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The monster'? The British popular press and nuclear culture, 1945β1960s
Philosophy Events
Existential Risk: Surviving the 21st Century
HPS History Workshop
GrΓΌnthal, Nikolai Hartmann and Schichtenlehre: instituting brain anatomy in a 1950s Swiss psychiatric hospital
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Infinitesimal probabilities
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The terrestrial globe under globalisation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement
β οΈ Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
What happened to them? Life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1812-1852
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Human Plague
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The contingency of logical necessity: an analysis of a sociological account of logic
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and empire: the view from Beijing, c. 1700
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inference to the best explanation and paradigms
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist
Cabinet of Natural History
Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues, Populations & Survival
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two views of linguistic science and its data
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Acid fallout: the 1980s US scientific and political debates on the atmospheric transport of sulphur dioxide
HPS History Workshop
Sensible error and other silly notions: galvanizing time in Victorian London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How we manage to manage 'knowledge': using computational infrastructures in semantic systems biology
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Philosophical History in Hannah Arendtβs Political Thought
β οΈ Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)
Cabinet of Natural History
Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Nature of Plagues
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is evidence?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Human nature: from theory to practice
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together
Darwin College Lecture Series
Silicon Plagues
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Framing the nuclear: the psychology of British governmental nuclear decision making
HPS History Workshop
Spaces for debate between science and religion in Franco's Spain: the intellectual conversations of Poblet (1959β1961)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The epistemic innocence project
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context
β οΈ Comment: Michael Sonenscher (Kingβs College, Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & History
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The medicalisation of love
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Information channels and biomarkers of disease
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Propensities and pragmatism
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The multiple inventions of transgenic mice
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Art and Elevation: Distance and History Painting in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mortality in English market towns during the 'parish register era', c1550 - c1825
Cabinet of Natural History
Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801β1837
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & Medicine
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A California Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with apologies to Mark Twain), or why a molecular neurobiologist landed in HPS
β οΈ Please note change of date
HPS History Workshop
Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The plurality of priority
Political Thought and Intellectual History
E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'
β οΈ Comment: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'VD is no camp': creating and communicating knowledge about same-sex venereal disease transmission in the Anglo-American world, c.1939β1984
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Location, multi-location and endurance
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Towards a unified model of a human being
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
East Anglian large-scale county maps of the eighteenth century: what can we learn from a digital analysis?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany
HPS History Workshop
'Contagious' delusions? W.B.Carpenter and the politics of psycho-physiology in 19th-century Britain
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On the evolutionary origins of morality
Early Science and Medicine
Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650βc.1830
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's *History of America*
β οΈ Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
'Dangerous and improper material': models, preparations and the relationship between object and user in 18th- and 19th-century anatomical collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causal assessment and the question of stability
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Gestalt switches in the prize paper: inspiration for, but not an instance of, chaos
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
English Republicanism in Transnational Context: Edmund Ludlowβs Protestant Network in Seventeenth-Century Switzerland
Cabinet of Natural History
Willi Hennig and philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency
HPS History Workshop
Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The topology of intertheoretic reduction
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Infertility, IVF and the ART of Making Babies - a Turkish case study
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975
β οΈ Comment: Christopher Brooke (University of Bristol)
Cabinet of Natural History
Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Prof Franklin's Inaugural Lecture: After IVF: the Reproductive Turn in Social Thought
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Armchair science
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What Makes Representation Democratic?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A trip to Mars by aeroplane': genres of public astronomy and the practice of astrophysics in the fin de siècle
HPS History Workshop
The changing face of Penfield's homunculus
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Individual risk: does it exist?
Early Science and Medicine
Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens
β οΈ Comment: David Runciman (POLIS)
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940β65
Philosophy Events
Inaugural lecture: Logic and Assertion
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A processual perspective on biology
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What is Liberalism?
Cabinet of Natural History
The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672β99)
Philosophy Events
The logic of "nothing" from Homer to Heidegger
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical Experiments
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940β1980
HPS History Workshop
Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Real wages and the household: Quantifying the economy of makeshifts of the poor in 18th-century England
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
HPS History Workshop
Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660β1720
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice
Rausing Lecture
Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?
β οΈ Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS History Workshop
Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic humility
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology
β οΈ Comment: TBC
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770βc.1820
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The volcano Laki in 1783: a serial killer? A French-English comparison
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Explanation in neuroscience
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Two views on the relation between causality and probability
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Aspects of Indirect Democracy in Ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics
Cabinet of Natural History
Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580β1720
HPS History Workshop
Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Knowing and understanding
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
National Grids: Some twentieth-century cartographies of energy production and transmission
Political Thought and Intellectual History
J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought
β οΈ Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary)
Cabinet of Natural History
The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Controversy, mistrust, even witchcraft: the failure of cancer therapy with neutrons
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Science, sexuality and transnational networks in South African AIDS activism, 1994β2001
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Isaac Newton's scientific method
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? The Dystopic Liberal Imagination in Political Thought
Cabinet of Natural History
Impressed upon the countenance: knowledge and visibility in Lavaterian physiognomy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding
β οΈ Postponed from 4 March
HPS History Workshop
Varieties of tacit knowledge
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The social epistemology of the International Panel on Climate Change
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present
Cabinet of Natural History
Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Clerical policy and local population studies: christening fees in Georgian Westminster
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Charles Darwin and the margins between flora and fauna in the 1870s: the case of insectivorous plants
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Atomic energy and Britain's position in the world, 1954β56
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How autonomous are social scientific explanations?
History of Medicine Seminars
From benchside to clinic: the rise of monoclonal antibodies in healthcare
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'
β οΈ Joint Session with the Modern British History Seminar
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight and Self-Control
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system
HPS History Workshop
The meanings of a breakthrough: categories, news and priority in the making of transgenic mice
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does psychological knowledge presuppose self-knowledge? A Kantian perspective
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
How were maps produced? A look at old and new surveying methods
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility
β οΈ Commentator: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)
Cabinet of Natural History
Beefing up science: British Bovril, bulging biceps and nutrition science
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foreseeing Space Weather
Philosophy Events
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Responsibility, Moral and Otherwise
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kepler's Temple of Urania in the light of Hebenstreit's Idyll
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Scientific uncertainty and 'sufficient knowledge': the development of a European-wide research programme on acid rain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Theory ladenness and narrative in the history of science: (how) can historical evidence support philosophical arguments?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Real change happens in general relativity, even in Hamiltonian form
History of Medicine Seminars
Mapping the medical marketplace: early modern Welsh practitioners and medical retail
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire
β οΈ Commentator: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)
Cabinet of Natural History
Romanticism, aesthetics and violence in natural history
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Music
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New light on Descartes's philosophical starting-point: an unknown manuscript of the Rules for the Direction of the Mind
HPS History Workshop
Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Winchgenstein and functional explanation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895
β οΈ Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
When the archaeologists are searching for a legend: the (re-)invention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Scientific Method
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Selection and maximization
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The fall of Johnstown: exhibiting disasters at the turn of the 20th century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Domain specificity in protein classification: a problem for monism
History of Medicine Seminars
Coping with recalcitrance: futility, frustration and failure in the history of cancer research
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Charismatic Sword: Thomas MΓΌntzerβs Theology of Violence
Cabinet of Natural History
'The man with the detective eye': observation in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight and Fiction
Darwin Society (Christ's)
The Only Scientist in Politics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What pluralism could be and might do
HPS History Workshop
Common sense and phrenology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Dysfunction and biological variation: a problem for SE accounts of functions
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning
β οΈ Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
Vivisection by storytelling: the experimental novel in the late 19th century
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Populating 19th century Siam: war/capture/resettlement versus the recruitment of free labour in a southeast Asian demographic system
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Journalism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The training and practice of English medical professionals in ophthalmia neonatorum, c. 1900β13
HPS Philosophy Workshop
More models, more problems?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of double-counting evidence illustrated by climate science
History of Medicine Seminars
Mental illness and cognitive impairment in central and late medieval Normandy: attitudes and responses
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710β1788
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Ancient Civilisations
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
What the small print in the early medieval penitentials tells us about abortion
HPS History Workshop
Fashionable intelligence: popular experiences of galvanism and the Regency newspaper press
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Modality in decision theory
History of Medicine Seminars
Ordinary seamen, bodily knowledge and Royal Navy sex crimes trials, 1688β1783
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history
β οΈ Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930β1945
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Joseph Rotblat: physics, the Bomb and some consequences
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objectivity in psychology β a Kantian perspective
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Lanford's theorem and the emergence of irreversibility
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
'To make a true and perfecte plotte': maps in the sixteenth-century Chancery Court of the Duchy of Lancaster
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy
β οΈ Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Infertility β the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870β1930
HPS History Workshop
Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Aesthetics in science
History of Medicine Seminars
Group formations: surgeons and artists in Victorian group portraiture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century
β οΈ Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
'The Age of Reptiles' and 'Memnonium or Head of Rameses': the frontispiece of George Fleming Richardson's Geology for Beginners (1842 and 1843)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Ingenuity in the gallery
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The Peckham Experiment
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Mind your Ps and Qs: a contrastive account of testimonial inference to the best explanation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Altruism and relatedness in microbial populations
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes and Sexual Desire
Cabinet of Natural History
Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age
Philosophy Events
Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?
HPS History Workshop
'What is Mercury?', chapter 1 of The Making of English Alchemy, the speaker's forthcoming book
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A Humean alternative on what there is
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)
β οΈ Comment: Harro Hopfl (Essex)
Cabinet of Natural History
Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America
β οΈ Please note change of speaker and topic
Tarner Lectures
Ontologies and Values
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Wanting your own words: writing in the first person about sexuality and feminism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The chemical origins of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie Jr.'s Calculus of Chemical Operations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The meaning of 'kilogram'
History of Medicine Seminars
Consensus, correspondence and the development of the 'second opinion' in Nuremberg's medical reformation, 1560β1598
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Authority: Some Fables
Tarner Lectures
Heuristics and its Hazards
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800β200 BC
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Catharine Cockburn on substantival space: a 'new' 18th-century solution
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self-Love
β οΈ Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!
Tarner Lectures
Gurus, Experts, Idiots and the Modalities of Debate
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science
β οΈ Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Heredity under the microscope
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Science funding 2.0
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
All possible perspectives: a defence of Eddington's selective subjectivism
History of Medicine Seminars
A delicate alliance: aid agencies and the media in Britain since the 1960s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry
β οΈ Commentator: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)
Cabinet of Natural History
Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin
Tarner Lectures
Democracy and Demonstration
jti20's list
Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2012
β οΈ John Locke and the Fable of Liberalism
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
(1) βNew findings from the family reconstitution data.β and (2) βNothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.β
β οΈ Please note that this extended seminar will run from 12 till 3pm. There will be two papers with a break for sandwiches 1.15 to 1.45.
HPS History Workshop
Studying Babylonia in Philadelphia: Assyriological practice and the University of Pennsylvania's museum, c.1900
HPS History Workshop
Conceptual change in history of science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The sciences of subjectivity
β οΈ Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Emergence in complexity science
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The power of persuasion in Plato
Cabinet of Natural History
'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Darwin change his mind about sex ratio?
Rausing Lecture
The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control
β οΈ Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS History Workshop
From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs
β οΈ Please note change of speaker and topic
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The rights of sovereignty in early modern political thought
Cabinet of Natural History
'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kripke's Wittgenstein on meaning and rules
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roman Liberty
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Poor Relief and Community in Elizabethan Hadleigh
β οΈ *Please note this seminar will start at the later time of 1 p.m.
Cabinet of Natural History
An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell
Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College
Wittgenstein on the Psychology and Anthropology of Colour
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colonial classification
HPS History Workshop
The global biopolitics of female sterilization
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Mapping during the Irish plantations, c.1580-1640
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Bunkers and other risk assessments: (im-)material calculations of military and natural disasters
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Commerce and monarchy in David Hume's History of England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The paradoxes of quantum theory: solving vs. dissolving
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Scottish critics of Hume and Smith: Maclaine, Reid and Fergsuon
Cabinet of Natural History
Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Real Wages and the Family: Adjusting Real Wages to Changing Demography in Pre-Modern England
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Philosophical issues in research funding allocation
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Textual transmission and hypertextuality in ancient Mesopotamia: the example of the divinatory series Ε‘umma Δlu and Ε‘umma izbu (second to first millennia BC)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Principles, pluralism and 'moral experts': reassessing the history of bioethics
Cabinet of Natural History
Thomas Bewick, engraving the world
Darwin College Lecture Series
The After Life
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870sβ1920s
HPS Philosophy Workshop
You can get here from there: 'thick' communication, interpretation, and projective identification explained
History of Medicine Seminars
Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship
Cabinet of Natural History
Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe
β οΈ Please note change of speaker and title
Darwin College Lecture Series
Artificial Life
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Metaphors, similarities and inferences
HPS History Workshop
'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977β1980
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Mapping consecration in twelfth-century Italy and beyond
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century
β οΈ CANCELLED
Philosophy Events
'Nothing Grows'
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The narcissist and the coquette: contesting figures of sexual sociability
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Classical history in the Renaissance: what can the Universal Short Title Catalogue do for us?
Cabinet of Natural History
Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life and Death of a Cell
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to count organisms
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Sui generis explanations: scientific progress and scientific realism
Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College
Charles Darwin: a life in letters
History of Medicine Seminars
A pre-peanut history of food allergy
Philosophy Events
Abaelard's theory of enthymematic inference
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815
β οΈ Held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar
Cabinet of Natural History
Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900β06
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life in Conflict
Philosophy Events
A Paradigm Shift in Paris [Leverhulme Lectures in Philosophy]
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Impossible objects? Towards a history of modern sleep and dream research
HPS History Workshop
Technological trajectories of hip replacement
History of Medicine Seminars
Fitting for health: steel-trusses in the enlightened economy of healthcare
Philosophy Events
Abaelard on The Structure of Substance
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sismondi contra Rousseau
Cabinet of Natural History
Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
βIndustrialisation and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community, c. 1600-1684β
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30 p.m.
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life in the Ancient World
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Medical discourse and scientific thought-styles: what changes and what remains constant
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure
Philosophy Events
Sophisms and Modality
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Consensual and non-consensual politics in medieval Roman law
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Spark of Life
Philosophy Events
The Theory of Inference in Crisis [Leverhulme Lectures in Philosophy]
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific perspectivism and its foes
HPS History Workshop
How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
British 'sexology' and the uses of the past
Philosophy Events
Translation, Figurative Meaning, and Argument
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The case of social interaction in bioscience laboratories: a multi-site ethnographic study of design intent and user experience
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics
Cabinet of Natural History
Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The prevalence of venereal diseases in 1913. Who was right? Christabel Pankhurst or the Royal Commission?
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30.
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life in Ruins
Philosophy Events
The Novelties of Peter Aberlard [Leverhulme Lectures in Philosophy]
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models
History of Medicine Seminars
Imagin(in)g the breast: mammography and breast cancer in the context of South-North American exchanges
Philosophy Events
Baptism and Essence
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy
Cabinet of Natural History
Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone'
Darwin College Lecture Series
From Genomes to the Diversity of Life
Philosophy Events
The Beginnings of Medieval Logic [Leverhulme Lectures in Philosophy]
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Revisiting the Mendelian revolution
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Is water H2O?
β οΈ Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.
Philosophy Events
Inaugural lecture: When was Medieval Philosophy?
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Good practices in rural landscapes: J. Entrican and the rediscovery of indigenous medicine in colonial Burma
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The false cosmos of new music: Adorno's Philosophie der Neuen Musik as modern political pedagogy
Cabinet of Natural History
Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cambridge mathematics in the north: Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland and the local nature of mathematics in Edinburgh, 1858β65
HPS History Workshop
Proctor's Mars: new astronomy and new journalism in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The politics of STS: instituting science studies in the age of Cold War
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Surveying Salonika: the work of British military survey sections 1915-1919
History of Medicine Seminars
Medicine in and around Dunhuang: preliminary assessment of ancient transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Road
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Regalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples
Cabinet of Natural History
Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking health, disease and modernity: a view from the farm, c.1930β70
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The equivocation objection to priority monism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A mould discarded: abortion and class in 1930s rhetoric and fiction
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The business enterprise as organisation and as association in nineteenth-century Britain: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte
Cabinet of Natural History
Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The mathematicians' philosophy: early Italian perspectives on the intellectual appropriation of the mechanical arts
HPS History Workshop
Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist
History of Medicine Seminars
Speaking for the patient as consumer in late 20th-century Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts
Cabinet of Natural History
Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Singularist semirealism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The ins and outs of mathematical explanation
History of Medicine Seminars
'Nott a sadder creature in the world': parental grief in early modern England, 1580β1720
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The palace of cats and falcons: 21st-century fauna in a 20th-century skyscraper
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, the common good and the rule of law: Lippman and Hayek on economic planning
Cabinet of Natural History
Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic
Philosophy Events
Happiness and Sustainability
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rise of modern physics in Spain: knowledge, power and memory
HPS History Workshop
The many roles of material variation in Charles Dufay's mΓ©moires on electricity and phosphorescence
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell
Philosophy Events
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Arguing about Torture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O'
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900β45
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The event in the syndemic: state and subject formation in the two Manchurian pneumonic plague outbreaks (1910β11, 1920β21)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Some new sources and contexts for the De Legibus Hebraeorum (1685) of John Spencer, father of 'Enlightened' sacred history
Cabinet of Natural History
Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900
HPS History Workshop
Human genetics and the blood transfusion services: circulating records, samples and expertise, 1939β1945
History of Medicine Seminars
Silent partners: artists and the mannequin from function to fetish
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Three Views of Democracy
Cabinet of Natural History
'Your observations and experiments are by far the best which have ever been made': the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin's private correspondence
Arcadia Project Seminars
Google, Crowds and Mobs
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'
Cabinet of Natural History
The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum
HPS History Workshop
History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?
Rausing Lecture
Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment
β οΈ Sixteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS Philosophy Workshop
A framework for emergentism(s)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Clapham Junction: The place of the Protestant Ethic in Max Weber's intellectual biography
Cabinet of Natural History
Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lacan's conceptualization of the relation between psychoanalysis, science and philosophy
HPS History Workshop
Did wonders ever cease? The singular, shining and spectacular in Charles Dufay's 'MΓ©moires sur l'Γ©lectricitΓ©' (1733β7)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historicising the French Revolution in the Third Republic: the case of Ernest Lavisse
Philosophy Events
A Priori Physicalism (or what to say about Mary)
Cabinet of Natural History
The fairy-tales of science
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Illusions of exactness: counting Scotland's population before 1801
β οΈ Sandwiches available from 12:30
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise, endorsement and enlightenment: the trials and tribulations of health foods in late eighteenth-century Paris
Philosophy Events
Reductionism in Ethics
Philosophy Events
Reductionism in Ethics
Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography
Taxidermy, Longing, and Beastly Allure
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
'Number, Weight or Measure': Mapping Colonial Governmentality in William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Locke in liberal memory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The 'Great Ice Age' of anatomy: learning from frozen sections c. 1900
HPS History Workshop
Ancient Chinese mathematics in action: Wu Wen-Tsun's ethnic historicism after the Cultural Revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Scholarship, Morals and Government: Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey's and Johann Gottfried Herder's Responses to Rousseau's First Discourse
Philosophy Events
Reference for Representationalists
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Decision making under indeterminacy
Philosophy Events
Thought Experiments
Philosophy Events
In Machines We Trust? Cloud computing, ambient intelligence and robotics
Philosophy Events
Finding our way in the cloud: engineering the shared experience
Equality & Diversity Events
My science - my faith - Christianity
Equality & Diversity Events
My science - my faith - Islam
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law
Philosophy Events
Value in Morality and Politics
Cambridge Philosophical Society
SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century
Equality & Diversity Events
My science - my faith - Hinduism
Cabinet of Natural History
Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Science and Beauty of Nebulae
Health and Welfare Reading Group
Analysis Not Therapy: Speaking Out
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kuhn's education: Wittgenstein, pedagogy, and the road to structure
HPS History Workshop
'Lies and frivolity': manners in scientific dispute in 19th-century Britain and Germany
History of Medicine Seminars
Cloning and film: fictional vectors of factual imaginaries
Centre for Family Research 2011 Archive
Bob Edwards: The Early Years
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The Race of Life": Republican Revisionism Revisited
Cabinet of Natural History
'Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype': travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Does Gibratβs Law hold for all times and all places? A study of the growth of British cities prior to 1913
Darwin College Lecture Series
Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Luxury and the route to revolution in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality
Cabinet of Natural History
Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams
HPS History Workshop
How the Harvard archives reveal that William James was a highly skilled hypnotist
Health and Welfare Reading Group
The Bonds of the Therapeutic
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Colour and problems of visualising space in early ninteenth-century geological maps of Britain
History of Medicine Seminars
Mortars, exotic drugs, and a battle for expertise: Verona 1561β1566
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and the sea. International trade in Hegel's political philosophy
Cabinet of Natural History
The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
English Living Standards and Mortality since the Middle Ages
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How much pluralism?
Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge
The Fairy-tales of Science: facts and fancy in Victorian children's literature
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Addison's Empire. Whig conceptions of empire in the early eighteenth century
Cabinet of Natural History
Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Sound of Beauty
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A history of a tenth of a second
HPS History Workshop
To graze and virtue: Anders Gabriel Duhre as a virtuous maker of useful knowledge in early 18th-century Sweden
Health and Welfare Reading Group
Anti-Psychiatry Revisited
History of Medicine Seminars
'Patient zero' and the early years of the North American AIDS epidemic
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in Calvinist thought
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountainous effects: Alpine space and Victorian lady climbers
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Contemporary perceptions of international migrants in England and the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries
β οΈ Cancelled. This talk will be re-scheduled for the Easter term.
Darwin College Lecture Series
Quantum Beauty
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to carve nature across the joints without abandoning Kripke-Putnam semantics
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920sβ1960s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle
Cabinet of Natural History
The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & The Grotesque
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'In God we trust, all others we monitor': seismology and international affairs during the Cold War
HPS History Workshop
Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta
Skeptics in the Pub
Does science always know best?
History of Medicine Seminars
Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared
Health and Welfare Reading Group
Educating Therapies? The School, the Clinic and Psychopathologisation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
James Mill on the French Revolution
Cabinet of Natural History
The hungry cats of Pietro Antonio Michiel, or the fragile nature of Renaissance collecting
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & Truth
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine
β οΈ Please note change of time and venue
Philosophy Events
What is Distinctive About Human Thought?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest'
Cabinet of Natural History
Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Science in Parliament
β οΈ The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 5:15pm
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England
HPS History Workshop
Margaret Fountaine: the life and works of a rather ordinary Victorian lepidopterist
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Society as the Mode of Redemption: The Idea of Individuality in Georg Simmel's Early Sociological Writings'
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Images in medicine, medicine in images
Cabinet of Natural History
The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems
HPS Philosophy Workshop
An unstable hybrid - dissolving the metaethical puzzle
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
'Geography Rectified': a study of a seventeenth-century terrestrial globe and the motives of its makers
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The virtual object of public health, or: the problem of 'life' in China, 1911β1937
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Heidegger, Cassirer, and Political Theology'
Cabinet of Natural History
The human automatism debate in the late 19th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism
HPS History Workshop
Concepts and perceptions of body size within western medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
History of Medicine Seminars
'A cold-blooded business'? Making the modern blood donor in wartime London
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Self-Possession and Carelessness: Two Versions of Liberty in Montaigne's Essais'
Cabinet of Natural History
Victorian palaeontology and serial publication
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Wir sind alle Afrikaner': a brief history and philosophy of the biological 'race' concept
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nature and the space of reasons
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Thinking with Satan: diabolical inspiration and human agency in late antiquity'
Cabinet of Natural History
Politeness and the ethical force of natural history
Philosophy Events
Fiction, Emotion and Imagination
CRASSH lectures
Human Rights Pedagogy and the Politics of Humanitarianism
β οΈ Free and open to all
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain
HPS History Workshop
From unhealthy lands to foyers of endemicity: malaria's place in the medical geography of French West Africa, ca.1880β1920
History of Medicine Seminars
Catholic activists, medical authority and the limiting of peasant choice in rural Brittany, 1650β1750
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Revolutionary Epigones: the Debate between Kant and his Radical Followers'
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The vernacular fortunes of the Pseudo-Galenic Liber tertius in Anglo-Saxon England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Organisms, autonomy and division of labour
History of Medicine Seminars
The 'miracle of childbirth': the portrayal of parturient women in medieval miracle narratives
Philosophy Events
Aristotle on Perceptual Content
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'French Liberals on Religion: From Constant to Laboulaye'
Cabinet of Natural History
Maya ruins, volcanoes and the colonial state in 18th-century Central America
HPS History Workshop
Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650β1720
History of Medicine Seminars
Diseased on an Indian Ocean island: medicine, statishness and colonialism
Cabinet of Natural History
Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration
CRASSH lectures
Risk, Uncertainty and Regulation
CRASSH lectures
How do Climate Models Gain and Exercise Authority?
Philosophy Events
The Dark Matter of Cambridge Philosophy
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Genomics, Society and Policies
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Leprosy, gender and punishment in thirteenth-century Rouen
Philosophy Events
The Irrelevance of Ethics
Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events
Darwin and the Descent of Woman
β οΈ This event is free and open to the public
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Darwinism and Environmentalism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The CCR5 gene patent: biomedicine, intellectual property and commerce in the United States
Rausing Lecture
From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren
β οΈ Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Marginal cures: landscape and healing in eleventh-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
The herbarium and the computer: investigating John Henslow's science
CRASSH lectures
Elaine Scarry (Harvard, US): 'The Floor of the World'
Fitzwilliam Museum
Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848
Cabinet of Natural History
Nature teaching on the blackboard: visual learning in early twentieth-century English school science
CRASSH lectures
Sheldon Pollock (Columbia): 'The Great Chain of Academic Being'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biological psychiatry, 1960 to the present
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Negotiated Concept(ion)s: Narratives of Artificial Insemination, 1945-1960
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Mahatma Gandhi's Political Thought
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Guido da Vigevano's Regimen Sanitatis and attitudes to old age
Cabinet of Natural History
Experiments in description: Victorian physics and the natural history of electricity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Map of a nation: the early Ordnance Survey and the politics of British landscape
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On Equality
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Justice and automated match officiating
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Science - facts and frictions
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
βM like Motherβ: A Social Grammar of Assisted Reproduction in Iranian Infertility Clinics
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The marginality of charms in medieval England
Cabinet of Natural History
Dragons, insects and porcupines: locating the Victorian 'dinosaur'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Epistemic risk and public health science
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The solution to the problem of mental causation
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
O the noise, noise, Noise, NOISE!
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Lacan's Dialectic of Enlightenment: from Kantian autonomy to the Freudian partial object
Tarner Lectures
A World Elsewhere
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rethinking Law and Religion. Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antiquity
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The physicians' stone: alchemical medicine in fifteenth-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism
HPS History Workshop
Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900
HPS History Workshop
Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England
Philosophy Events
Rede Lecture for 2009β10 on The Two Cultures Fifty Years On
Philosophy Events
Moral Sciences Club
Tarner Lectures
A Disciplined Eye
Cabinet of Natural History
William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and Natural Catastrophes
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Ethics, risk and public works: models of optimal risk reduction
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Seller, Pepys and the seventeenth-century London map trade
Tarner Lectures
An Antique Land
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Montesquieu and Machiavelli: Appropriation and Critique
CRASSH lectures
The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien RΓ©gime
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The earliest English culinary recipes: dietary recommendations in Old English medical texts
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk, Security and Terrorism
CRASSH lectures
Translating Religion and Secularism in China
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge
Tarner Lectures
A Pattern Science
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historia Literaria in the Field: German Academics and the Search for the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720
CRASSH lectures
Blaxploitation: the Music
Cabinet of Natural History
Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and Humanities
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Toys in Monkeyland: the utility of anatomical models and medical expertise in late eighteenth-century Vienna
CRASSH lectures
The University in the Face of a Pharmacology of the Mind
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry
History of Medicine Seminars
The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Crisis of Global Citizenship
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Dr John Argentein (1443-1508): medical knowledge and practice in the 15th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Why expert judgment isn't evidence: a qualified defence of the EBM position
HPS History Workshop
Title to be confirmed
HPS History Workshop
White maps of Africa β the making of blank spaces
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575-1618
Cabinet of Natural History
Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Causation and exceptions
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Security as a Norm in Hobbes's Theory of War: A Critique of Schmitt's Interpretation of Hobbes's Approach to International Relations
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Reconstructing Old English anatomical vocabulary
Cabinet of Natural History
The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk: Science and the Media
All CRASSH events
Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture
HPS History Workshop
Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s QuΓ©bec
HPS History Workshop
A scientific toy for red-blooded boys: the Gilbert chemistry set and non-journalistic popularization of science
History of Medicine Seminars
'Isolates' and 'crosses': human evolution and population genetics in the mid-twentieth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Republican King: The Creation of Executive Power in America
Cabinet of Natural History
The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Description, design and aesthesis in the work of John Ray and contemporaries
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918β1948
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemology of memory
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton
HPS History Workshop
Teacher, toy, or calculator? Reflections of mathematics, education, and society in a 20th-century American object
HPS History Workshop
The contested banana tree: public debates about science in eighteenth-century Central America
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Fens Maps and Moore's Mapp (1658)
History of Medicine Seminars
Practitioners, products and promotion: the medical trade catalogue and professional ethics in Britain, 1880β1914
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Role of Conceptions of History in Shaping Political Ideas: The Case of the Early-Fourteenth-Century Dominican John of Paris
Cabinet of Natural History
Lyell's plots
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is a thick concept?
History of Medicine Seminars
Medical knowledge and enlightened war: British and French military medicine in the eighteenth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Hobbes and Late Renaissance Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
Cabinet of Natural History
Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture
Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events
In Conversation with...Professor Karen O'Brien author of Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
β οΈ All welcome to this free event
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain
HPS History Workshop
Special session in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Christian Wolff's Critics and the 'Foundation of Morality' in the Early German Enlightenment
Cabinet of Natural History
After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Social knowing
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemic principle of alternative possibilities
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dutch Accounting Practices and the Cultural Origins of Political Economy in Europe 1600-1730
Cabinet of Natural History
Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we 'need some large, simple randomized trials'?
HPS History Workshop
Authenticating nature: situating photographic trust in the late nineteenth century scientific periodical press
HPS History Workshop
The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dr Lauder Lindsay's lemmings: mad beasts and misanthropy in a Victorian asylum
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Deference at a distance
History of Medicine Seminars
Mechanizing war and medicine: rationalized fracture care in World War I
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The International Political Thought of John Stuart Mill
Cabinet of Natural History
'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930
HPS History Workshop
The meaning of altruism in interwar London
HPS History Workshop
Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Karl Marx and the Production Organism
Cabinet of Natural History
Fungi in history
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Darwin and the Descent of Emotionally Modern Man: How humans became such "other-regarding" apes
β οΈ For more information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/140/programme-0809.htm
Scientific Images Discussion Group
'Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy' (1804)
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Is art historical methodology useful for HPS and how could it be applied?
HPS History Workshop
'Strange are the ways of providence': Calvinism, evolution, and the autobiography of James Croll
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
The Contradictions of Scientific Motherhood: Women, Childcare, and the Politics of Expertise
β οΈ For more information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/140/programme-0809.htm
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty
β οΈ Valedictory Lecture
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Transatlantic Dimension of Portuguese Political Thought, c. 1790-1840'
Rausing Lecture
Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world
β οΈ Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Scientific Images Discussion Group
A (visual) tour of the wisdom of the human eye with Robert Boyle
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Visualizing nature: Marianne North's botanical portraits at Kew
HPS History Workshop
The politics of participation: Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory and the formation of civic selves
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'"The Time Is Coming When Politics Will Have a Different Meaning"'
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What reasons needn't be
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
'Beautiful maps and attractive fields': a surveyor's view of ancient Italy
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Pregnancy centre stage, please: Contesting the erasure of pregnant bodies from workplace space
β οΈ For more information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/140/programme-0809.htm
Cabinet of Natural History
Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Picturing points: geometric imagination in the first English translations of Euclid's Elements
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Doughnut holes and paper cut-outs: image, visualization and manipulation in low dimensional topology
HPS History Workshop
Mad women and mad-doctors
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Protagoras on Political Skill: Plato Protagoras 320c-328d'
Cabinet of Natural History
Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Insanity, divine madness and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation
HPS Philosophy Workshop
So what is psychological identification anyway?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'From divine inspiration to empirical enquiry in the German Enlightenment: J. D. Michaelis on language and civilisation'
Cabinet of Natural History
'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causation, models of disease and epidemiology
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The historiography of the scientific image
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Images of blood transfusion in wartime London
HPS History Workshop
Placing trust in photographs β photography and the illustrated press
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Plan for Perpetual Peace: From Saint-Pierre to Rousseau'
Cabinet of Natural History
Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualisation of life
Cabinet of Natural History
Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Gender and Parenting Culture: Intensive Fatherhood?
β οΈ For more information: http://www.parentingculturestudies.org/seminar-series/seminar2/index.html
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
'A function of the time': the Cavendish Society and its Postprandial Proceedings
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Where do the laws of logic come from?
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Curious β Looking at Microscopy through Craft and Technology
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Time flies: Exploring Visual Links between Hummingbird Iconography and the Aztec Calendar
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Boundaries of Darwinism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On recent work on faultless disagreement
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
How creative is evolutionary computation?
HPS History Workshop
Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries
Early Science and Medicine
How (not) to read the advertisements of oculists: records, testimonies and the strategy of personal encounters in the early 18th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
High science: hill stations and modern astrophysics
Cabinet of Natural History
'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20
Darwin College Lecture Series
Is Human Evolution Over?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Consensus and disagreement in science
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Towards a postmodern concept of risk: the contribution of risk perception studies
Early Science and Medicine
The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13thβ14th centuries)
Cabinet of Natural History
Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae'
Darwin College Lecture Series
Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
The phenomenology of the extended mind: why your beliefs are not in your iPhone
HPS History Workshop
God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Diagram to portrait and back again: styling the map to fit the reader
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation
Cabinet of Natural History
JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world
Darwin College Lecture Series
Darwin and Human Society
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A falling star' β the sovereign self in Otto Weininger
β οΈ Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Defending shallow essentialism
Scientific Images Discussion Group
When Nature Begins to Write Herself: German Romantics Read the Electrophore
Early Science and Medicine
'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism
Cabinet of Natural History
Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth
Darwin College Lecture Series
Darwin in the Literary World
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update
β οΈ Please note change of venue
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Narratives in Greek mathematics?
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Recarving the cognitive joints of nature
HPS History Workshop
The golden road to China: cartographical representations of an improbable railway project, c.1881-5
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Mars Globes and the Canal Controversy
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience
Cabinet of Natural History
The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation
Darwin College Lecture Series
Global Darwin
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Proofs, refutations and heuristics: historical and essentialist standpoints in Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Human Art and Natural Beauty in eighteenth-century Microscopy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain
Darwin College Lecture Series
Darwin's Intellectual Development
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Between law and astronomy: Kepler, Galileo and the uses of witnessing
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience
HPS History Workshop
Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The Historiography of the Scientific Image
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context
Cabinet of Natural History
Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Making of the Fittest
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Thinking 'through numbers'
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Status of human tissues
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience
Cabinet of Natural History
Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe
Psy Studies
Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland
β οΈ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM
HPS History Workshop
Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Documentary sociology: Mass-Observation as aesthetic science
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The materials of the Hereford mappa mundi
Early Science and Medicine
Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Using visual images and interactive workshops to engage with maternity staff - Changing hearts and minds?
Cabinet of Natural History
A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Is the pessimistic induction valid?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark
Cabinet of Natural History
Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where does a claim for the necessity of historical knowledge lead in the human sciences?
Psy Studies
How the insane crossed the Channel: a forgotten aspect of the Franco-British shared psychiatric history
HPS History Workshop
Wu Wen-Tsun: a modern Chinese mathematician and the Chinese mathematical tradition
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Methodology and the visual image
β οΈ Please note the different time
Scientific Images Discussion Group
On allegories and vanities, and the connections between science, art and collecting in the Spanish Baroque culture
β οΈ Please note the different time
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Der neue Trend β no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945β1975
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Artificial creation of human beings - Three cultural prototypes: Goethe's Homunculus, Shelley's Monster and Huxley's creatures in the Brave New World.
Cabinet of Natural History
New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance
Early Science and Medicine
Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province
Cabinet of Natural History
The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Peter Lipton Memorial Conference
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900
HPS History Workshop
'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Longing in Egypt: A solution for male infertility in the Joseph story (Genesis 39)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shape of the conceptual
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Orford Ness: landscape of war and science
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Globalization and Gametes: Reproductive Tourism, Islamic Bioethics, and Middle Eastern Modernity
β οΈ chaired by Prof. Marilyn Strathern
HPS History Workshop
Puns and pea-shooters: play, words, and plays on words in John Ayrton Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest' (1827)
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The visual language of geology, 1760-1840
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Isaac Newton's architectural drawings of the Temple of Solomon
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy
Cabinet of Natural History
The evolution of wonder
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A Roman engineerβs tales
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Modernist aesthetics, Marxist science
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Topographical anatomy and the visual culture of Edinburgh obstetrics
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
HPS History Workshop
'In shape vnparfett that nature hathe not drest': vision, experience and incongruous anatomies in early modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The new riddle of causation
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms
Cabinet of Natural History
Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Slavery in the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic world
HPS History Workshop
The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
Triangulations: poetry, plants and politics in the late eighteenth century
Rausing Lecture
Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power
β οΈ Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Guide dogs for the sighted: the role of canis familiaris in constructing images of Victorian town and country
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis
Cabinet of Natural History
Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy
HPS History Workshop
Finding favour in the heavens and earth: Georg Stadius, Johannes Kepler and the composition of astrological calendars in early modern Graz
β οΈ Please note change of day
Cabinet of Natural History
Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
STUDENT TALKS AND GRAND DISCUSSION
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What is an organism?
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The problem with periodicals in the 19th century
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Portrait of a spark: William Armstrong's photographs of electricity (1897)
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Chekhovβs poetic and social realism: poetry and politics on stage
HPS Philosophy Workshop
A social construction of health
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Cholera mapping from 1819 to 1854: before John Snow and the Broad Street outbreak
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Possibilities and limitations of understanding
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Are (human and other) animals rational?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Understanding in ancient and modern Number Theory
Psy Studies
The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s
β οΈ Please note early start
HPS History Workshop
Thomas Digges' astronomy
Cabinet of Natural History
Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Jan Vermeer's images of scientists and Pascal's "esprit de finesse": art, philosophy and science in the Dutch Golden Age
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Editing early-modern astronomical diagrams
Psy Studies
Exploring the human psyche: psychology and British psychic detective fiction at the turn of the 20th century
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Mind-dependence and realism about the mind
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Mapping the Soviety: cartography and the construction of Stalinist space, 1928-1953
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Student Papers and Grand Discussion
β οΈ Is our university a place of free thinking?
Cabinet of Natural History
Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London
Darwin College Lecture Series
Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Are academics intellectuals?: a reading of Edward Said
β οΈ Is our university a place of free thinking?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century France: the Saint-Aubinsβ Livre des Culs
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Why is the violin so hard to play?
HPS History Workshop
Preserving the forgotten: Fox Talbotβs interest in the antique β and what it has to do with photography
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture
β οΈ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Socrates and the invention of philosophical conversation
β οΈ Is our university a place of free thinking?
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life
Darwin College Lecture Series
Cosmological Serendipity
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
The thought of poetry and its institutional discontents
β οΈ Is our university a place of free thinking?
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Freedom, Technology and Terror
β οΈ Is our university a place of free thinking?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
What use is a college education?
β οΈ Is our university still a place for free thinking?
Early Science and Medicine
Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders
Cabinet of Natural History
Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project
Darwin College Lecture Series
Serendipity as a Force in Physics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century
HPS History Workshop
Zhang Jingsheng and the βsexual fieldβ in 1920s China
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
β οΈ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Serendipity in Political Life
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Contracting the philosopherβs stone: fraud, risk and profit in early modern alchemy
Psy Studies
Colonising and de-colonising psychoanalysis in the 1950s: Masud Khan amongst the British
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Subjective probability and action guidance
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Biotrash: medical garbage in India
Cabinet of Natural History
Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926
HPS History Workshop
Political radicalism and scientific discovery: the Cambridge Biotheoretical Gathering, 1932-1937
Early Science and Medicine
Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world
Cabinet of Natural History
Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall
Darwin College Lecture Series
HIV and the Naked Ape
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Thatcher, scientist
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The primacy of secondary qualities
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museumβs cranial collection, 1869-1900
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Stratigraphy of Serendipity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics
HPS History Workshop
Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast
Cabinet of Natural History
βWhat is meant by this system?β Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature
Darwin College Lecture Series
Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease
Early Science and Medicine
Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early Modern France
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Saving equality from the dustbin of history: a refutation of the βmeritocracy thesisβ from The Bell Curve
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition
Cabinet of Natural History
Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Spinoza on law and sovereignty
Early Science and Medicine
Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster
Cabinet of Natural History
The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968
Psy Studies
The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Psychological identification and numerical identity: the unlikely connection
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate
Cabinet of Natural History
'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Are there Lewis conventions?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox
Cabinet of Natural History
Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The special kind of unpredictability of chaotic systems
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Cartography as a tool of social reform: drink maps of nineteenth-century Liverpool
Early Science and Medicine
Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section
Cabinet of Natural History
'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Practical reasoning and inference
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Sybil' in particulars and generals: inductive logic and Victorian narrative
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Is teleportation a (quantum) mystery?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
The material realisation and conceptual interpretation of observational processes
Cabinet of Natural History
Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain
Early Science and Medicine
Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom
Cabinet of Natural History
'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Instrumentalism for historians and philosophers
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Building better brains: the ethics of cognitive and affective enhancement
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Supposing this and that
HPS History Workshop
Refashioning women: dress, science and the female body in late nineteenth-century Britain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Knowledge of counterfactuals
HPS History Workshop
Monstrous deliveries: fetal anomalies and the making of facts in nineteenth-century obstetrics
Rausing Lecture
Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com
β οΈ The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Psy Studies
'We might as well call it stuff!': A short history of information as a psychological concept
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Williamson on knowledge as the most general factive mental state
Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual
Grand Discussion
β οΈ The Place of the Intellectual
HPS History Workshop
The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'
Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual
Plato and Aristotle on why an intellectual life is even better than a moral one
β οΈ The Place of the Intellectual
Cabinet of Natural History
Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Understanding counterfactuals
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Williamson on knowledge
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Title to be confirmed
Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual
Intellectuals, oil, and violence
β οΈ The Place of the Intellectual
Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual
A scientific approach to the nature of ethics
β οΈ The Place of the Intellectual
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kepler as chronologer
HPS History Workshop
A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler
Cabinet of Natural History
Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Provisional knowledge
Psy Studies
βNo! No! Not the comfy chair!β The power of the experimental situation in social psychology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine
Thinking Society: What is Life?
What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questions
β οΈ What is Life?
Cabinet of Natural History
"Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording"
Darwin College Lecture Series
SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS
Thinking Society: What is Life?
Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables?
β οΈ What is Life?
Thinking Society: What is Life?
Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life?
β οΈ What is Life?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Anatomical politics and urban transformation in Vienna, 1848β1945
HPS History Workshop
Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland
Thinking Society: What is Life?
Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and Heidegger
β οΈ What is Life?
Early Science and Medicine
βMurderous pity?β Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society
Cabinet of Natural History
Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840
Darwin College Lecture Series
IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Practices, rules and motivation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives
Philosophy of Physics
Realism, the Interpretation of Quantum Theory, and Idealism
Cabinet of Natural History
The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s
Darwin College Lecture Series
IDENTITY AND THE MIND
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reference failure: why worry?
HPS History Workshop
'Les particularitΓ©s la plus considerable': Fontenelle's Γ©loges
Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
The history of mapping the railway
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
βThe dog daysβ: rabies in England, 1830β1860
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything
Philosophy of Physics
Introduction to Algebraic Quantum Statistical Mechanics
Cabinet of Natural History
"Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol"
Darwin College Lecture Series
IDENTITY AND THE LAW
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism
Early Science and Medicine
Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt
Philosophy of Physics
The nature of time in a closed system
Cabinet of Natural History
Alchemy and natural history
Darwin College Lecture Series
MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology
HPS History Workshop
The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States
Philosophy of Physics
The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity
Cabinet of Natural History
Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing
Darwin College Lecture Series
IDENTITY OF MEANING
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The difference between cause and condition
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies
Cabinet of Natural History
Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world
Darwin College Lecture Series
VISUALISING IDENTITY
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction
HPS History Workshop
Samuel Lilley and the Commission for the History of the Social Relations of Science, 1947β53
Early Science and Medicine
Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris
Philosophy of Physics
On classical limits of quantum theory
Cabinet of Natural History
Geological deluge and snowball Earth
Darwin College Lecture Series
MUSICAL IDENTITY
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Relative meaning
Thinking Society: General and Particular
Student papers and Grand Discussion
β οΈ Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan
Cabinet of Natural History
Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Gender inequality and change in stature in India during the Twentieth Century
Thinking Society: General and Particular
The death of theorising?
β οΈ Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain
HPS History Workshop
Electrons in the family
Thinking Society: General and Particular
Varieties of theory in modern America
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Early Science and Medicine
'Desperate and incurable': defining breast cancer in England c.1550-1800
Philosophy of Physics
Is Teleportation a (quantum) mystery?
Cabinet of Natural History
Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Agreement and the new relativism (work in progress)
Psy Studies
Shell shock to PTSD: a step change in the conceptualisation of psychological responses to traumatic events
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement
Thinking Society: General and Particular
Process or cultural relativism in prehistory?
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Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference
Philosophy of Physics
Against Pointillisme about Geometry and about Mechanics
Cabinet of Natural History
More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Cities, markets and the sea: Explaining the ups and downs of height in early nineteenth century England and Wales
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Making truth or masking lies: the triumph of the Conards
HPS History Workshop
Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals
Thinking Society: General and Particular
Is history science?
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Philosophy of Physics
Stochastic Einstein Locality : Part Two
Cabinet of Natural History
R.A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Perceptual knowledge and discrimination (work in progress)
Psy Studies
Angina pectoris and the Arnolds: emotions and the framing of heart disease in medical history
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work
Early Science and Medicine
The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment
Philosophy of Physics
MACHIAN DYNAMICS: THE END OF TIME? PART TWO
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Widows, wills and economic assets in pre-industrial Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950
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HPS History Workshop
Maternal or fetal diagnostics? Practices of ultrasound imaging in Norway, 1970-1995
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction
Philosophy of Physics
Machian Dynamics: The End of Time?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Not all computations are effective methods
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual
Philosophy of Physics
Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited
Cabinet of Natural History
Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Household and plague in early modern Italy
HPS History Workshop
Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge
Early Science and Medicine
Sterility and the disordered household in Early Modern England and France
Philosophy of Physics
Reconsidering Relativistic Causality
Cabinet of Natural History
The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon
Cabinet of Natural History
Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation
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Cabinet of Natural History
Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"
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Cabinet of Natural History
The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century
β οΈ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING LONGER
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING DISEASE
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL OF CULTURE
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES
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