jer64's list

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

Ellen Fridland (King's College London).

Zoom.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

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

Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Andreas Weber (University of Twente).

Zoom.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Practitioner Series: Mária Patakyová [Public Defender of Rights]

Mariá Patakyová.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-maria-patakyova-tickets-136594151785.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

Zoom.

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

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

Zoom.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Audre Lorde on Care

Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State).

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).

Zoom.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

Lena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

Zoom.

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

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

Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

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

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Practitioner Series: Aleksandra Dier [CTED]

Aleksandra Dier.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-aleksandra-dier-tickets-136591521919.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).

Zoom.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Zoom.

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

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

Zoom.

Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

Kaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

Zoom.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Normative Powers

Laura Valentini (KCL).

Zoom.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science

Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University).

Zoom.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

Susan Shell (Boston College).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

Alexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

Zoom.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Practitioner Series: Lysa John [CIVICUS]

Lysa John.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-lysa-john-tickets-136589889035.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition

Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

Adrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bell’s Philosophy of Racial Realism as the Basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment

Tommy Curry (Edinburgh).

Zoom.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

Josie Gill (University of Bristol).

Zoom.

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779)

Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews).

Zoom.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Practitioner Series: Deborah Brown [Human Rights Watch]

Deborah Brown.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-deborah-brown-tickets-136410133381.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

Polly Mitchell (King's College London).

Zoom.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

Steven Klein (King's College London).

Zoom.

Monday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account

Udit Bhatia (Oxford).

Zoom.

Friday 22 January 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How does process tracing work?

Christopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

Zoom.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR

Sharath Srinivasan (POLIS/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation), Luke Church (Computer Lab/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation).

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124692772439.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

Max Long (Faculty of History).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction

Melvin Rogers (Brown).

Zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case

Rebekah Lyndon, Victoria Tse, Lena Moore, Mo May-Hobbs.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124686264975.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

Haixin Dang (University of Leeds).

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality

David Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Noémi Tousignant (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Terry (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

Miles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory

Vanessa Wills (George Washington).

Zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from case studies

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

Christopher Preston.

Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830

Dominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem

Annette Zimmermann (York).

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

(Un)Settling Epistemologies Through Digital Tools

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124685490659.

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

Henrice Altink (University of York).

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science and speculation

Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

Teams.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany

Elaine Ayers (New York University).

Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

Grace Redhead (University College London).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Fabulation and the Right to the City: The Bacchae with Saidiya Hartman and Hannah Arendt

Bonnie Honig (Brown).

Zoom.

Friday 09 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy

Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

CANCELLED

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from sociological case studies

CANCELLED

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

Edith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 02 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

"We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory

Jeanne Morefield (Birmingham).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book Launch - "Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability" (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Dr Ella McPherson, Sam Dubberley, Dr Alexa Koenig, Dr Daragh Murray, Matt Mahmoudi, Isabel Guenette Thornton.

Old Library at Pembroke College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice

CANCELLED

Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

CANCELLED

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 24 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

CANCELLED

Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931

Emily Jones (Manchester).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Grudge Informers Revisited: On Accountability for Collaborators with Repressive Regimes

Colleen Murphy (Illinois).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The good news about killing people

Bryan W. Roberts (LSE).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848

Samuel Hayat (CNRS). Commentator: Julia Nicholls.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On pluralism in psychiatry

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The search for invertebrate consciousness

Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury

Robin Douglass (KCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Responsibility

Jude Browne (Cambridge).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

Sabine Clarke (University of York).

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

Marta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge

Susan James (Birkbeck).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

"Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics"- Book Discussion with Professor Richard Caplan

Richard Caplan - Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.

Room S3, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"

Tejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 20 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Grounds of Political Legitimacy

Fabienne Peter (Warwick).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds

Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).

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

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

CANCELLED

Dror Weil (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Adam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

James Dolan (King's College).

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

Friday 29 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity

CANCELLED

Bryan Roberts (LSE).

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Neoliberal Turn

Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces

Dr Manali Desai, Dr Tiffany Page, Dr Holly Porter, Ilaria Michelis.

Newnham College, Lucia Windsor Room.

Monday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Decolonisation in International Law: What Does It Mean?

Professor Susan Marks, LSE.

Room S1, ARB.

Friday 22 November 2019, 17:30-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

Amy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Conceptual Change and Political Judgment: A Wittgensteinian Approach

Desiree Weber (College of Wooster).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research

Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich).

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pluralism about actual causation

Enno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

Elaine Leong (University College London).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Digital Verification Workshop

Ray Adams Row Farr and Rebekah Lyndon, students at the University of Cambridge.

Angevin Room, Queens' College.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël

Adela Halo (QML).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 18 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science and the approximation account of knowledge

Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI

Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English).

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The replication crisis and philosophy

Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood

Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life

Heinrich Meier (LMU).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet

Alec Christie (Zoology).

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

Friday 08 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Justification and Vindication in Political Philosophy

David Owen (Southampton).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13th–16th centuries)

Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History).

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?

Professor Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge.

Room S1, ARB.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Sahanika Ratnayake (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Shiru Lim (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

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

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria – the evolutionary ABCs

Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

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

Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The science of childhood: postcolonial development in India, 1950s

Arathi Sriprakash and Peter Sutoris (Faculty of Education).

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

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal

Henry Shevlin (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution

Miriam Leonard (UCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 28 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Radical Reparations

Daniel Butt (Oxford).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Student recruitment for research team - "THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ONLINE"

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 25 October 2019, 09:00-09:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Cambridge Festival of Ideas - Citizen Voice, Social Change and Africa’s Digital Revolution: Power to the People

Dr Sharath Srinivasan; Luke Church.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On validators for psychiatric categories

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?

William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy

Serena Ferente (KCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 21 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).

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

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality

Donatella Rovera, Sam Dubberly, Matt Mahmoudi.

Angevin room, Queens College.

Friday 18 October 2019, 17:15-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

Pluralism and monism in design fixation research

Nathan Crilly (Engineering Design).

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

Friday 18 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making a name in mid-century mathematics: individuals, institutions and the open secret of Nicolas Bourbaki

Michael Barany (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Information Session for new Student Group 2019/20 members and coordinator

Dr Ella McPherson; Dr Sharath Srinivasan.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913

Michael Sappol (Uppsala University).

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

Katrina Forrester (Harvard University).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 14 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis

Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen).

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

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy

Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

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

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Does science progress?

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova

Dr Felix Waldmann (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England

James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter).

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

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

Jenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

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

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Early modern history of data and epistemology of form

Aaron Hanlon (Colby College).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny

Jill Frank (Cornell University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)

Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

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

Monday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry

Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back

Ulrika Björkstén (Clare Hall; Sveriges Radio).

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Follow the measures: conceptualization, measurement and interdisciplinarity in the science of empathy

Riana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London

Samuel Zeitlin (Chicago) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

When is a cow not a cow?

Harriet Ritvo (MIT).

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

Monday 06 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The instrument of science

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).

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

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series presents: Reporting Human Rights Today

Suyin Haynes, Haley Joelle Ott, Dr Maha Rafi Atal.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Plantation’s Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective

Adom Getachew (University of Chicago).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The politics of the potato in the 19th century

Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War

Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

How should the UK govern itself in the time of Brexit?

Professor Mike Kenny (POLIS).

SG1/2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR at the Cambridge Science Festival - Health crises, digital media and community voices

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, Robinson Way (Close to the Junction of Robinson Way and Long Road), CB2 0SZ.

Sunday 24 March 2019, 11:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system

Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

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

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Britain in Europe, 1973–1975: From Hope to Uncertainty

Dr Lindsay Aqui.

S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics

Maarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Insta-Glam: Smartphone Apps and Beauty Surveillance

Prof Rosalind Gill, City University of London.

Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Languages of Constituent Power

Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy Events

Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Ethics for Communication in a Digital Age

Baroness Onora O'Neill (Emeritus Honorary Professor, University of Cambridge).

Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

How can AI be used for Social Good? Lessons from Africa’s Voices Foundation

Sharath Srinivasan; Luke Church .

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

V-Dem: measuring democracy

Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Legitimacy and eectiveness of the European Semester: does the parliamentary involvement make a dierence?

Ivana Skazlic.

138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Learning Europe at its borders: how deployments to migration hotspots aect Europeans’ understandings of themselves and society

Gil Thompson.

138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch

Clive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction

CANCELLED

Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

BOOK TALK - Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism

Professor Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University).

S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present

Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St. Quentin).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Left Critiques of Equality

Anne Phillips (LSE).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Future of British Foreign Policy (Book launch celebration)

Professor Christopher Hill.

S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s

Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory

Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War

Raffy Lerma - freelance photographer; Ica Fernandez - urban planner; Inez Feria - founder of NoBox Philippines .

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Class Ceiling: Why it Plays to be Privileged

Dr Sam Friedman, London School of Economics.

Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Catherine Arnold (Memphis).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people

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

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

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE

Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism

Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 18 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Hannah Arendt in Baddawi: Political Identity without Sovereignty in Refugee History

Lyndsey Stonebridge (Birmingham).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan

Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A political history of apolitical science

Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Power of Political Arguments in Understanding Referendums (European Centre Seminars)

Dr Ece Özlem Atikcan.

S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi

Dr. Duncan Omanga, British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2018/9); Senior Lecturer of Media Studies in Moi University, Kenya.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Spatial experience: more than mere structure

Peter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Is Europe Christian?

Prof Oliver Roy, European University Institute.

Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution

Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

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

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Patient reported outcome measures are different

Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

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

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Humanitarian Club

Professor Michael Barnett (George Washington University).

138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Non-literal model interpretations

James Nguyen (UCL).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine

Hannah Murphy (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar

Professor Ian Holliday, The University of Hong Kong.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body

Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire

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

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Emancipation for the Unjust Past

Alasia Nuti (York).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery

Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools

Freddy Foks (Faculty of History).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

Agnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain

Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

What is the Sociology of Reproduction all about?

Prof Sarah Franklin, Sociology Department, University of Cambridge.

Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 12:30-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies

Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

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

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Europe and the United States (Alcuin Lecture 2019)

Professor Erik Jones.

SG1/2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance

Prof. Jens Steffek (Darmstadt).

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:30-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance

Prof. Jens Steffek (Darmstadt).

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:30-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International

Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanatory directionality

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War

Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

University Museum of Zoology.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Logic of Legitimacy

Amanda Greene (UCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

Mary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Seizing the Crisis and Using Europe: The Politics of EU Defence Integration Cooperation after Brexit’

Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau.

Room S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)

Ksenia Tatarchenko (University of Geneva).

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

Thursday 20 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

‘Why should one care about European Parliament's elections in the post-Brexit European Union?’

Dr Donatella Viola (University of Calabria) .

S2 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

Matt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution

Marius Ostrowski (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 26 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle

Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Compatibility of Constitutional Democracy with International Law

Carmen Pavel (KCL).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The Role of the Catholic Church in the Global Governance of Migration

Dr Sara Silvestri, City, University of London.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century

Amanda Rees (University of York).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

Tal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

Katie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

CANCELLED

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress

Professor Diane Coyle (POLIS).

SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, cb3 9dt.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Theory for the Real World

Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh).

Room 138, Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 12:30-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872

Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 19 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Being human, being Homo sapiens

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

‘What is “Global Britain”? Brexit and Britain's World Role’

Dr Oliver Daddow (Nottingham University) .

S2 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Memory: what is it good for?

Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute

Marissa Mika (University College London).

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

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Sociology 50th Anniversary Conference

Speaker to be confirmed.

Clare College, Cambridge .

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 09:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Coercion in a Subjective World

Daniel Luban (Yale University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 12 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Critical conversations: intersectionality and sociology

Professor Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Sociology at Cambridge: Past, Present and Future

Prof Anthony Giddens, Prof Patrick Baert, Dr Ali Meghji, Prof Jackie Scott, Prof J Thompson.

Clare College, Cambridge .

Monday 12 November 2018, 14:45-16:15

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Sociology 50th Anniversary Conference

Speaker to be confirmed.

Clare College, Cambridge .

Monday 12 November 2018, 14:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century

Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope

Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Probabilistic actual causation

Luke Fenton-Glynn (University College London).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean

Sam Robinson (University of York).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination

Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick).

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

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century

Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

Corey Robin (CUNY).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century

Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 05 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

‘Facing the Pressures of Internationalisation and Securitisation: National Governments as the Weaker Actors?’

Dr Tomáš Weiss (Charles University Prague) .

S2 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two

Mat Paskins (London School of Economics).

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments

Karina Vold (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).

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

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How to do things with sensors

Prof Jennifer Gabrys, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 12:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?

Philippa Byrne (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685

Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Disturbing the "One Size Fits All' Feudal Approach to Data Governance: Bottom-up Data Trusts

Sylvie Delacroix (Birmingham).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science

Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in northeast China after the Communist Revolution

Koji Hirata (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds

Kaitlin M. Ball (University of Cambridge), Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan writer & Political Analyst), Dr Jude Kagoro (University of Bremen).

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series

Karim Thébault (University of Bristol).

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR)

Nanjala Nyabola, writer, indepentent researcher and political analyst.

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus

Dr Jude Kagoro, Research Fellow at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959

Gareth Millward (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere

Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Recent developments in EU energy and climate policy

Dr Alex Bocse (LSE) .

S2 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

Rune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University).

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

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion

Stephen Holmes (NYU).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 15 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency

Emma Spary (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

A Just Theory of Riots

Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

How US science moved west: Boulder, Colorado and the development of US space sciences in mid-20th century America

Joe Bassi (University of Texas, El Paso).

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

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Many Molyneux Questions

Jonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

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

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France

Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris).

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

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius

Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

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

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Before Trump: the neoliberal–illiberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Note unusual day and time

Sonja Amadae (MIT).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction

Mazviita D. Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Practical Competition Policy Implications of Digital Platforms: Taking Schumpeter Seriously (Departmental Seminar)

Professor Diane Coyle (POLIS).

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University; Durham University).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory

Alexandra Chadwick (University of Groningen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).

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

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Ian Shapiro (Yale).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Andreas Malm (Lund University).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda

Renny Thomas (University of Delhi).

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

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth

CANCELLED

Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A new way to defend the value free ideal for science

Mike Stuart (LSE).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)

Valentina Arena (UCL).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 14 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)

László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).

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

Monday 14 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

From Discord to Cooperation? Armenia and Turkey in the 21st Century

Dr Geoffrey Edwards (University of Cambridge).

SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America

Erika Milam (Princeton University).

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

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

Agnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Brexit: What happens and where do we go from here?

Professor Anand Menon.

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?

Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?

Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery

Bruno Leipold (Frankfurt).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 07 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)

Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

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

Monday 07 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model

Dr Pasquale Annicchino.

Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 07 May 2018, 12:00-02:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action

Dr Stephen Humphreys (LSE), Dr Shailaja Fennell (Centre of Development Studies), chaired by Dr Mette Eilstrup- Sangiovanni (POLIS).

Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media

Wendy S. Parker (Durham University).

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket

Siva Arumugam (Cambridge).

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Guard against temptation: team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower

Natalie Gold (King's College London).

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Fear and loathing in modern warfare

Prof Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA.

Room 3, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-16:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias

Janet Tobias, Director, Sierra Tango Productions & Dr Laurie Denyer Willis, CGHR Research Associate.

Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.

Monday 30 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Representation and the Fall

Eric Nelson (Harvard) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 30 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade

Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).

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

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Statistical biases in peer review

Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Thursday 26 April 2018, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space

Prof Laura Shepherd, Sydney University & Dr Maria Martin de Almagro, POLIS.

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 23 April 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Teach-Out! Conference! Post-Truth Phenomenon (15-17 March)

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Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Saturday 17 March 2018, 09:00-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Teach-out! Practitioner Series: Elizabeth Davies, BBC World Service

Elizabeth Savies, BBC World Service.

Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge CB2 3AP.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

Rune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

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

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences

CANCELLED

Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

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

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks

CANCELLED

Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

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

Monday 12 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people

CANCELLED

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

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

Thursday 08 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

CANCELLED

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection

CANCELLED

Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum).

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

Monday 05 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Procreative Justice and Genetic Selection for Non-Disease Traits: The Case of Fair Skin

Herjeet Marway (Birmingham).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

A Certain Idea of Britain: Writing the political history of one's own country in one's own times

Lord Peter Hennessy (Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine

Alisha Rankin (Tufts University).

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

Thursday 01 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices

Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Africa's Voices.

King's Audit Room, King's College.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity

CANCELLED

Dennis Lehmkuhl (Caltech/Einstein Papers).

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

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

CANCELLED

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge

CANCELLED

Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 26 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Fear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom

Ira Katznelson, Columbia University.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

Mariam Thalos (University of Utah).

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

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain

Yari Perez-Marin (Durham University).

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

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy

Kenzie Bok (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 19 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s

Caterina Schürch (LMU München).

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

Monday 19 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US

John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania).

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

Thursday 15 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The homelands of the plague: Soviet disease ecology in Central Asia, 1920s–1950s

Susan Jones (University of Minnesota).

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

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Andrea Coomber, JUSTICE

Andrea Coomber, Director, JUSTICE.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?

Craig Callender (University of California, San Diego).

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

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East

Elise Burton (Newnham College, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Digital Fakery and its Consequences

Dr Ella McPherson, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Room G, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution

Karma Nabulsi (Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees

Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet).

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

Monday 12 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Doctor’s Plot: How Philosophizing Human Rights Began

Samuel Moyn (Yale).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 09 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars

Jack Stilgoe (UCL).

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

Thursday 08 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

No interpretation of probability

Wolfgang Schwarz (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility

Valerie Worth (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury

Richard Tuck (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 05 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world

Simon Werrett (UCL).

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

Monday 05 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty

Heather Widdows (Birmingham).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Sugar, science and the history of capitalism

David Singerman (University of Virginia).

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

Thursday 01 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China

Seung-joon Lee (National University of Singapore).

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

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Alix Dunn, The Engine Room

Alix Dunn, Executive Director, The Engine Room.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Dr Watson: the impending automation of medical diagnosis and treatment

Bennett Holman (Yonsei University).

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

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households

Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

A Postcolonial Rethinking of the State and Nation: From Comparative to Connected Sociologies

Professor Gurminder Bhambra, University of Essex.

Room B, 1st Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill on Universal History

Callum Barrell (New College of the Humanities).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63

Meira Gold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 29 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America

Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar

Ira Katznelson (Columbia) .

Queens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics

Casey McCoy (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 25 January 2018, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity

J. Brian Pitts (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system

Margaret Charleroy (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Republicanism: A Difficult Partnership

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 22 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century

Ádám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest).

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

Monday 22 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Liberal Egalitarianism and the Critique of Religion

Cecile Laborde (Oxford).

Prioress's Room, Jesus College.

Friday 19 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies

Christof Heyns, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee & former UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Anneke Osse, Consultant on policing and human rights, Stuart Maslen Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law (University of Pretoria) .

Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 18:00-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Making sense of art and science

Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent).

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

Thursday 18 January 2018, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept

Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).

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

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Film screening 'Chauka, please tell us the time' and Q&A

Arash Kamali Sarvestani, director.

Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 18:00-20:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What's the point of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World?

Emily Thomas (Durham University).

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

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The Weaponisation of Human Rights

Chase Madar, attorney, author and journalist.

King's Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 01 December 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Stratification, Centralization, and the Structures of International Societies

Professor Jack Donnelly (University of Denver).

Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 15:00-17:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Departmental Seminar- 'A New Global Politics of Religion: Religious Harmony, Public Order, and Securitisation in the Post-colony'

Dr Iza Hussin.

Room 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Representing and explaining: the eikonic conception of explanation

Alisa Bokulich (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain

James Stark (University of Leeds).

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

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Corruption as a global threat

Laurence Cockcroft, Independent Writer and Economist & Prof Jason Sharman, POLIS.

Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Hybrid capture? A comparative perspective on the political economy of biomedical innovation in the age of neoliberal science

Dr Stuart Hogarth, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany

Clara Maier.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 27 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian

Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest).

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

Monday 27 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Let’s Talk: Power and Powerlessness in Academia

no speaker.

Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 19:00-20:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Before the big bang of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 250 years of astronomy in South Africa

Saul Dubow (Faculty of History).

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

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity?

Gilles Babinet, Tech entrepreneur and former President of the French Digital National Council.

SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 12:00-02:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Quantum Bayesianism: the ineffable reality behind 'participatory realism'

Harvey Brown (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century

Erica Charters (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Jon Elster's Sour Grapes

Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism

Alex Aylward (University of Leeds).

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

Monday 20 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

When the Rules Run Out: Informal Taxonomies at the Front Lines of Public Service

Bernardo Zacka (Cambridge & MIT).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

Adrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

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

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The structure of structure: how Kuhn establishes that science requires historical explanation

Paul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz).

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

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Departmental Seminar- 'Descriptive Representation Revisited'

Professor Anne Phillips, LSE.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Reviving analytical philosophy of history

Paul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz).

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

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices

Stuart Hogarth (Department of Sociology).

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

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Drums of War, Drums of Peace: Erdogan’s Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan, and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Dr Jeff Miley, Cambridge Sociology Department.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts

Grace Allen (Manchester).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

Jenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Research Group: "A murdered journalist and the puncturing of a culture of impunity in Burkina Faso: the pursuit of justice for Norbert Zongo"

Dr. Thomas Probert, CGHR Research Associate.

Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the two kingdoms of Sicily

John Brewer (California Institute of Technology).

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

Thursday 09 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Neuro-empire: rise of a medical-scientific discipline in modern Japan

Bernhard Leitner (University of Vienna).

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

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly

Njoki Wamai (CGHR, POLIS, University of Cambridge), Patrick Mutahi (University of Edinburgh), Kamau Wairuri (University of Edinburgh) .

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Causal decision theory and tragic evidence: Death in Damascus revisited

Melissa Fusco (Columbia University).

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

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda

Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought

Tae-Yeoun Keum (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)

Catarina Madruga (Universidade de Lisboa).

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

Monday 06 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Philosophical Racism

Katrin Flikschuh (LSE).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Yet another unity of science? Latin American challenges to history, philosophy and social studies of scientific knowledge

Sandra Harding (UCLA).

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

Thursday 02 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Putting health and wellbeing evidence into policy

• Sara MacLennan, Whatworks wellbeing centre.

English faculty room GR04.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Departmental Seminar- "The Jehovah's Witnesses of social policy"? Explaining the rise, fall, and revival of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-2017

Dr Peter Sloman.

Room 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

'The battle is on': Lakatos, Feyerabend and the student protests

Eric Martin (Baylor University).

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

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86

Boyd Brogan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the People and the State in Early America

CANCELLED

Ira Katznelson (Columbia).

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance

Andrew Lacey (Making & Knowing Project, Columbia University).

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

Monday 30 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Conference: Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Organisers: Dr David Lane (Cambridge Sociology) and Dr Jeff Miley (Cambridge Sociology).

Queen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Friday 27 October 2017, 09:45-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A contagious cause: the search for cancer viruses and the growth of American biomedicine

Robin Scheffler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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

Thursday 26 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The principle of stability

Sam Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

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

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine

Maaike van der Lugt (University of Versailles).

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

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Global Governance and Grand Corruption: The International Politics and Policy of Looted Wealth

Professor Jason Sharman.

SG1/2 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

Monday 23 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809

Richard Whatmore (St Andrews) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Jo Cox Lecture Series: Save the Children

Kevin Watkins, CEO.

Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

Friday 20 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Criminal Accountability, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of States

Avia Pasternak & Jeff Howard (UCL).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Genres of prediction: astrology between Sanskrit and Hindi print in colonial north India

Charu Singh (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A struggle for the Soviet future: the birth of scientific forecasting in the Soviet Union

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Kingston University).

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

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

Jacob Stegenga (with Zoë Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century

Nicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva).

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

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How do you feel? ‘Well- being’ and un-voiceability in UK universities

Professor Shirley Tate, Leeds Beckett University .

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought

Edward Cavanagh, University of Cambridge.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 16 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850

Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation

Please note earlier time

Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University).

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:00-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Joachim Wtewael and the human body

James Clifton (MFA, Houston).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke

David Wootton (York).

Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College.

Monday 09 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage

Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

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

Monday 09 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Making Use of the Stilts?

Tom Shakespeare (UEA).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

German émigré scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India

Jahnavi Phalkey (King's College London).

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain

Dr Onoso Imoagene, University of Pennsylvania.

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

'Politics in Uncertain Times: What will the world look like in 2050 and how do you know?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webb Library, Jesus College, 31 Jesus Ln, Cambridge CB5, UK.

Wednesday 13 September 2017, 18:00-20:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict

Maksymilian Czuperski, Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab & Special Advisor to the President, Atlantic Council.

Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 12:00-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Salon: Duterte’s War on Drugs (Last CGHR Salon of Easter Term!)

Sharmila Parmanand, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask

James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

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

Monday 05 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 15:00-17:00

Philosophy Events

Routledge Lecture in Philosophy

Prof Peter Singer, Princeton University & University of Melbourne.

Paston Brown Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Friday 26 May 2017, 18:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Salon: Justice, Human Rights and the Changing International Order - Is Cosmopolitan Progress under Threat?

Daniel Wand, University of Leeds.

Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Listening to the chirps: how do the LIGO results test general relativity?

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Digital Fact-Finding Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in the 21st Century

Steven Livingston (Carr Center, Harvard University; George Washington University).

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 15:00-16:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe

James Stafford (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)

Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

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

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific habits circa 1900

Henry Cowles (Yale University).

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC

Dr. Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The Theory Theory 2.0: Bayesian models, causal inference and cognitive development

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer – from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate

Niklas Olsen (Copenhagen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 15 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion

Dr Nukhet Ahu Sandal, Ohio University.

Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room 138.

Monday 15 May 2017, 15:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4

Christina Skott (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Listening to scientists' stories: using the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' archive

Ruth Wainman (University of Kent).

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

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?

Catherine Kendig (Michigan State University).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Hegemony or Polarization? The Consequences of the Recent Power Shift in the Turkish News Media

Dr Ozan Asik (Cambridge Sociology Alumnus).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian

Liisi Keedus (York).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

Mark Wormald (Pembroke College).

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery

Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Friday 05 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

A Day in the Life: Bede Sheppard from Human Rights Watch

Bede Sheppard (Human Rights Watch).

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Friday 05 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The materials for trust-building in expertise

Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Shifting formats, changing priorities in the modern Chinese materia medica genre: from Zhao Yuhuang's single items to drugs in acupuncture channels

Lena Springer (Needham Research Institute).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime

Tushar Menon (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Despotic and Infrastructural Power: The State in the 21st Century

PROF MICHAEL MANN (University of California, Los Angeles).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment

John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 01 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals

Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

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

Monday 01 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Salon: Human Rights Violations and the 2016 Rio Olympics

Cerianne Robertson, MPhil Candidate, Department of Sociology.

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age

Sam Dubberley, manager of Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps, and Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law.

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 27 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Cultural Diversity and International Order Seminar Professor Christian Reus-Smit (Chair of International Relations, University of Queensland)

Professor Christian Reus-Smit (Chair of International Relations, University of Queensland).

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 27 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: A Strategy for the UK Steel Industry

Professor Julian Allwood, Faculty of Engineering.

Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

Friday 17 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea

Deborah Coen (Columbia University).

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

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa, State Formation and Decay

Professor Christopher Clapham (Cambridge); Dr Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown, Qatar).

S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why the priority rule does not exist

Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s

Jeong-ran Kim (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford).

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

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Brick Walls: Racism and Other Hard Histories

PROF SARA AHMED (Independent Writer).

Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 12:30-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Control in Kenya and South Africa

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 13 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)

James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 13 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Asylum Monologues

Speaker to be confirmed.

Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre.

Saturday 11 March 2017, 14:00-16:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Wallah Je Te Jure Screening + Q&A

Speaker to be confirmed.

Keynes Room, King's College.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 19:00-20:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The gifts of Athena revisited: protectionism, regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700–1800

William Ashworth (University of Liverpool).

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

Thursday 09 March 2017, 15:30-17:00