History and Philosophy of Science long list

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice

User Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

User Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts

User Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna).

Monday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum

User Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

User Ms Tania Branigan.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem

User Emma Tobin (University College London).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

User Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

User Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

User Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

Monday 04 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation

User Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

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

User Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

House Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Is AI generated art really art?

User Milena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

User Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Des Moulins à Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850–1851

User Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University).

Monday 26 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838

User Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

User Professor Frances Spalding.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary

User Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911

User Hillary Vipond (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Controlling copying before copyright: a tale of three Britannias

Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

User Isabella Alexander, UTS Sydney.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

User Various speakers.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism

User Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

Monday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s

User Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

Monday 19 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Conceptualising climate futures

User Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Limit objects and emergence

User Miklós Rédei (LSE).

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

User Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

User Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

User Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

User Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

User Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers

User Teresa Bejan (Oriel College, University of Oxford).

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant

User Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

Monday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Are Revolutions Justified?

User Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

In defense of the medical model of obesity

User Andreas De Block (KU Leuven).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

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

User Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

House Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

User Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups

User Michael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

User Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective

User Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary University of London).

Monday 29 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

User Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

Monday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

The Genetic Revolutions

User Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

PhD Showcase

User Various speakers.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

User Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

User Richard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 22 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

User Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

Monday 22 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

User Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India

User Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

User Martin Daunton (Cambridge).

Thursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Unifying the notion of objectivity

User Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

User Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery

User Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne).

Monday 27 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia

User Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)

All welcome

User Bruno Blonde (Antwerp).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 23 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945

User Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger).

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science

User Lena Kästner (Universität Bayreuth).

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Lines endowed with lawful force’: the maps and drawings of the Wide Streets Commissioners, Dublin, 1758–1849.

Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

User John Montague, American University of Sharjah.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933

User Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion

User Philip Schofield (University College London).

Monday 20 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)

User Erica Fischer (King's College London).

Monday 20 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914

All welcome

User Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 16 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Lifecycle of a constant: e

User Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science

User Zuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

User Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation

User Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles).

Monday 13 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community

All welcome

User Paul Warde, Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 09 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Where inattention pays

User Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics

User Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument

User James Harris (University of St Andrews).

Monday 06 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century

User Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

Monday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914

All welcome

User Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 02 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections

McConnell Lecture

User Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews).

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Can anyone be a target of discrimination? Lessons from philosophy of science and work on human kinds

User Marion Godman (Aarhus University).

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe

User Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement

User Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London).

Monday 30 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

User Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

Monday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) about the money

User Jordan Claridge, LSE.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 26 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Lineages as evolving processes

User John Dupré (University of Exeter).

Thursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

User Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

John Locke and Slavery

User Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 23 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England

User Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

Monday 23 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire

User Leigh Gardner, LSE..

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 19 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India

User David Arnold (University of Warwick).

Thursday 19 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Why we shouldn't democratise science

User Stephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies

User Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

User Edward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg).

Monday 16 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina

User Silvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

User Maria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne).

Thursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China

User Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University).

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

User Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 09 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Room 5, Faculty of History.

Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers

User Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913

User Asst Professor Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Moral Personality in Machiavelli

User Peter Stacey (UCLA).

Monday 05 June 2023, 17:00-18:30

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

House The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

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

User Dr Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

In defence of dimensions

User Caspar Jacobs (Merton College, Oxford).

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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

User Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta).

Monday 29 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

User Lynn Berry (Open University).

Monday 29 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth

User Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Bayesian explanationism

User Stephan Hartmann (MCMP, LMU Munich).

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I

User Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

Monday 22 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics

User Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Not for me: on the external function of guilt

User Shaun Nichols (Cornell University).

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

User Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

The Political Theory of Restauration

User Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne).

Monday 15 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment

User Valentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University).

Monday 15 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival

User Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mapping the Miasma’. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic

User Dr Fiona Gallagher (Dublin City University).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Ways of branchmaking

User Nick Huggett (University of Illinois Chicago).

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

User Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72

User Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

Monday 08 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

User Michael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

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

User Professor Hilde Sommerseth (The Arctic University of Norway).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Can present-day philosophers make scientific contributions? From philosophy in science to conceptual and theoretical thinking in science

User Thomas Pradeu (CNRS).

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Maps that made history: the map collections of Leiden University Library

For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk

User Martijn Storms, Leiden University Libraries.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

User Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness

User Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford).

Monday 01 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)

User Gregory Radick (University of Leeds).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature

User Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Birmingham).

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Cancelled due to industrial action

User Dr Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

User Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought

User Taushif Kara (King's College London).

Monday 13 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain

User Max Long (History, University of Cambridge).

Monday 13 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

User Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context

CANCELLED

User Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis

User Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh).

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

User Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Truth and Loyalty

User Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield).

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

User Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

Monday 06 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

User Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression

User Marion Boulicault (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

User Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Are we alone in the Universe?

User Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Rationalizing discrimination

User Zeynep Pamuk (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark

User Louise Ludvigsen and Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

User Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Remapping and place naming in 'Beautiful Dachau'

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

User Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues

User Carol Atack (Newnham College, Cambridge).

Monday 20 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

User Lynn Berry (Open University).

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science

CANCELLED

User Samir Boumediene (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

TBA

User Stefan Eich (Georgetown University).

Monday 13 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century

User Taylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania).

Monday 13 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries

User Professor David Earn (McMaster University, Canada).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The causal structure of cultural domination

User Tarun Menon (Azim Premji University).

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

User Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations

User Megan Donaldson (University College London).

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

User Jan Becker (European University Institute).

Monday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?

User Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

User Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens

User Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway).

Monday 30 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

User Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

Monday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

User He Bian (Princeton University).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

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

Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar

User Professor David Green (King's College London).

House Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science

User Uwe Peters (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

User Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History

User Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex).

Monday 23 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer

User Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge).

Monday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

User Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Against presence empiricism

User Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

User Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Room 5, Faculty of History.

Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600

All welcome

User Chris Briggs, Cambridge.

Monday 09 January 2023, 17:15-18:45

The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England

User James Davis (Queens University Belfast).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 17:15-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

User Sonia Wigh.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'

User Jamie Martin (Harvard), with comments by Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge), Madeline Woker (Cambridge), and Duncan Bell (Cambridge).

Monday 28 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750

User Lucy Havard (Faculty of History).

Monday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office

User David Green (Kings College London).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Identifying future-proof science

CANCELLED

User Peter Vickers (Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling

User Fiora Salis (University of York).

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett

For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk

User Stephen Leach, University of Keele.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

User Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet

User Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

Monday 21 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany

User Madeline White (University of Oxford).

Monday 21 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness

User Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history

User Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems

User Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki).

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

User Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law

User Benjamin Straumann (University of Zurich).

Monday 14 November 2022, 17:15-18:45

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

User Elisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1921

User A.G. Hopkins (Cambridge).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan

User Lewis Bremner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

User Tom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

User Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge

User Charlotte Johann (Churchill College, Cambridge).

Monday 07 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

User Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

Monday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892

User Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 03 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement

User Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Economics).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization

User Alessandra Basso (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

User Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought

User Natasha Wheatley (Princeton).

Monday 31 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860

User Jane Humphries (London School of Economics).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations

User Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'Put on my tomb: this is what she was trying for': the extraordinary life of Margaret Masterman

User Peter da Bolla (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

User Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe

User Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford).

Monday 24 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

User Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation

User Catia Antunes (Leiden).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 20 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Coloniality, global health, and reparations

User Eugene Richardson (Harvard University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Worries about philosopher experts

User Cathrine Holst (University of Oslo).

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

User Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions

User Eleanor Myerson (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College).

Monday 17 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

The Necessity of Bubbles

User William H. Janeway (Cambridge).

Thursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science

User Samuel Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

User Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Roundtable on Jessica Patterson’s (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'

User Jessica Patterson (Cambridge), with comments by Ian Stewart (QMUL), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), and Shruti Kapila (Cambridge).

Monday 10 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices

User Annika Windahl-Pontén (Uppsala University).

Monday 10 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations

User Jane Whittle (Exeter).

Thursday 06 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries

User James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh).

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 16:00-17:30

Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe

User Alix Cooper (SUNY-Stony Brook).

Monday 30 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

User Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories

User Anna Guasco (Department of Geography).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Monday 23 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality

User Pieter R. Adriaens (KU Leuven, Belgium).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

User Naftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

User Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

House Department of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Thursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

House Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

User Charlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 17:00-18:15

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

User Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution

User J'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Monday 09 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation

User Elselijn Kingma-Vermeer (King's College London).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

User Catherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

The idea of the Indigenous map: examples from the RGS-IBG collections

User Joy Slappnig, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 17:30-18:30

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

User Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

User Yijun Wang (New York University).

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology

User Emiliano Cabrera Rocha (Department of Geography).

Monday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Learning (to learn) from others

User Richard Moore (University of Warwick).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’

Paper available for pre-reading

User Helen Tilley, Northwestern University .

House Zoom + TBC venue.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:15

Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London

User Sarah Rafferty (University of Cambridge).

House Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

On the nonexistence of moralometers

User Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

User Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Monday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)

User Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana).

Monday 07 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

User Axel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge

CANCELLED

User Huiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré).

Monday 28 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Epistemic bunkers

User Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949

User Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

House Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

User Daniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Thursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries

User Prof Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester) and Dr Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge).

House JCR, Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

User Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands

The paper will be made available before the seminar

User Lauren Benton, Yale University .

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:15

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928–1955

CANCELLED

User Megan Barford (Royal Museums Greenwich).

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i

User Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia).

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800

User Sophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin).

Monday 07 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences

User Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy).

Thursday 03 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)

User Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK).

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

User Minakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Monday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

User Eleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

User Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories

User Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico

User Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

House Cockroft Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)

User Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition

User David Fox.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 17:15-18:45

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

User Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

User Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment

User Lina Weber (University of St Andrews).

Monday 29 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories

Online only

User Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).

Monday 29 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain

User Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

User Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

User Daniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:15

Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China

User Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989

User Michal Kopeček (Cambridge).

Monday 22 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

User Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

Monday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Making money in the early Middle Ages

User Rory Naismith, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Physical computations are idealisations

User Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

User Mathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

User Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

At the limits of China: frontiers, borders, and political geography in early modern Sino-Western cartographic exchanges

User Florin-Stefan Morar, City University of Hong Kong.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects

User Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Monday 15 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America

User Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

Monday 15 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Tropical development

User Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

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

User Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

User Jacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

User Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

The Political Thought of Charles Malik

User Chloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .

Monday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain

User João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales

User Xuesheng You, University of Swansea.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

User Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?

CANCELLED

User Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653

User Markku Peltonen (Academy of Finland).

Monday 01 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica

User Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).

Monday 01 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform

User Ian Cawood, University of Stirling.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

User Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

User Maree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

User Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy

User Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge).

Monday 25 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

User Charlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

Monday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror

User Benedetta Rossi, University College London.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

House The Theatre, Peterhouse.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

User Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany

User Luna Sabastian (Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge).

Monday 18 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832

User Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Monday 18 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Capitalism – a concept too big to fail?

User Craig Muldrew, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

User Chris Otter (Ohio State University).

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

User Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John’s College, Cambridge).

Monday 11 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

House Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

User Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England

User Tom Heritage (Southampton).

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries

User Joana Pujadas-Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'

User Kinch Hoekstra (UC-Berkeley).

Monday 24 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

User Ella Larsson (University of Westminster).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Monday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic

User Sean Valles (Michigan State University).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

User Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"

User Max Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India

User Nazmul Sultan (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 17 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

User Franziska Holt (University of York).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Monday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

User Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

James Bryce and the concepts of constitution

User Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .

Monday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

User Christoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Monday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Futures

User Jenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

Thursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao

Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link

User Peter Geldart, Philippine Map Collectors Society.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Sir William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State

User Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University).

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction

User Amelia Urry (University of Cambridge).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Monday 03 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

World models and intuition in the 1970s

User Sarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Thursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915

User Eric Schneider (LSE).

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

User Ellen Fridland (King's College London).

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

User Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

User Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850

User Andreas Weber (University of Twente).

Monday 15 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Blood Sculptures

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

User David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades

Note unusual time

User Zhongwei Zhao (School of Demography, Australian National University).

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 10:00-11:00

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

User Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

User Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

User Chris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939

User Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

User Lena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

User Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

User Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

User Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

Monday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Drawing processes

User Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Thursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010

User Jim Oeppen (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark).

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

User Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link

User Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

House via zoom .

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:30-19:00

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

User Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Experiencing Republican Texts

User Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

User Kaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

Monday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science

User Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University).

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

User Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Kant's 'True Politics'

User Susan Shell (Boston College).

Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

A natural history of evil

User Alexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

Monday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition

User Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

User Adrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

User Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

Monday 08 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

User Josie Gill (University of Bristol).

Thursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Renaissance eugenics

User Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

User Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779)

User Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews).

Monday 01 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Truth AND consequences

User Polly Mitchell (King's College London).

Thursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

User Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

User Steven Klein (King's College London).

Monday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

How does process tracing work?

User Christopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century

User David Todd (King’s College, London).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

User Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

User Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

User Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

Monday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810

User Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

User See description.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

The Straits of Malacca-A Cartographic Journey using Nautical Sea Charts

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SPEAKER AND TITLE

User Julian Candiah (Kuala Lumpur).

House via zoom .

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 17:30-19:00

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

User Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

Monday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

User Max Long (Faculty of History).

Monday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850

User Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

User Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

User Haixin Dang (University of Leeds).

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

User Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality

User David Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

Monday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

User Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting

User David Edgerton (King’s College, London).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

User Noémi Tousignant (University College London).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

User Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

User Brandon Terry (Harvard University).

Monday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

User Miles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how

User Joe Day (Bristol).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

User Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Learning from case studies

User Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

User Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

User Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

Monday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

User Christopher Preston.

Monday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003

User Harold James (Princeton).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism

User Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

User Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State

User Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830

User Dominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg).

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Writing the history of education as social and economic history

User Peter Mandler (Cambridge).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2020

User Henrice Altink (University of York).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

Science and speculation

User Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

House Teams.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

The first Egyptian society

User Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

User Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

Monday 19 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany

User Elaine Ayers (New York University).

Monday 19 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor

User Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

User Grace Redhead (University College London).

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

User Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

Monday 12 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

User Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400

User Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science

User See description.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective

User See description.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust

User See description.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 28 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science

User See description.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century

User See description.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 14 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy

User See description.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

User Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy

User Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson.

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

User J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

CANCELLED

User Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Learning from sociological case studies

CANCELLED

User Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

User Edith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

Monday 02 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

User Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

User Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice

CANCELLED

User Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

House Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Secret Soviet maps of Cambridge and the world

User John Davies (sovietmaps.com) & Alex Kent (Canterbury Christ Church University).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

CANCELLED

User Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

User Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer.

Monday 24 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

User Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House To be confirmed: Emmanuel College or via Zoom.

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

User Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

Sunday 23 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

CANCELLED

User Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

User Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic

User Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931

User Emily Jones (Manchester).

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

User Chris Manias (King's College London).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

User Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

User Dr Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City, University of London .

Thursday 13 February 2020, 17:00-18:15

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

User Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The good news about killing people

User Bryan W. Roberts (LSE).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

User Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848

User Samuel Hayat (CNRS). Commentator: Julia Nicholls.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

On pluralism in psychiatry

User Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

User Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900

User Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark).

House Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The search for invertebrate consciousness

User Jonathan Birch (LSE).

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'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

User Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury

User Robin Douglass (KCL).

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

User Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

User Dr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent .

Thursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

User Sabine Clarke (University of York).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Creativity and AI

User Marta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge

User Susan James (Birkbeck).

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

User Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

How atoms became real

User Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

User Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

User Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"

User Tejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).

Monday 20 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

User Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds

User Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

User Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

ReproSoc

Whose Biological Clock? Temporal Inevitability and Assisted Reproduction in Contemporary India

User Anindita Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

House The Pitt Building Trumpington Street CB2 1RP.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 17:30-19:00

The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern

User Prof. Richard Smith, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

CANCELLED

User Dror Weil (King's College London).

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'

User Adam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner.

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 02 December 2019, 17:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication

CANCELLED

User James Dolan (King's College).

Friday 29 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

CANCELLED: The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 ‘millionaire’ population

User Prof. Peter Scott, Reading.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity

CANCELLED

User Bryan Roberts (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

User Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

The Neoliberal Turn

User Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

User Amy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Friday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy

User Alexandra Sapoznik, King's College London.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research

User Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Pluralism about actual causation

User Enno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Geologist William Smith (1769-1839) and his struggles to both earn a living, and finance his scientific and cartographic projects to 1820

User Hugh Torrens (University of Keele).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:30-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

User Elaine Leong (University College London).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël

User Adela Halo (QML).

Monday 18 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

User Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019)

User Prof. Guido Alfani (Bocconi, Milan) and Dr Matteo di Tullia (Pavia).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Science and the approximation account of knowledge

User Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI

User Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The replication crisis and philosophy

User Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood

User Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life

User Heinrich Meier (LMU).

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

User Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet

User Alec Christie (Zoology).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 08 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work

User Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 07 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13th–16th centuries)

User Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

User Sahanika Ratnayake (Faculty of Philosophy).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

User Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought

User Shiru Lim (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen).

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

User Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence

User Cheng YANG (University of Cambridge).