Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain

Brandon Jackson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge

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

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

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata

Jonnie Penn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy

Seb Falk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

Newtonian politics

Jason Grier (York University, Canada).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

Clare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism

Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston

Steve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history

Please note change of date

Timothy Rees Jones (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

'Crackpots' and 'active researchers': the string wars, arXiv and the blogosphere

Sophie Ritson (University of Sydney).

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

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

'Illuminating effects': visual culture and the exhibition of lighthouses in Victorian London

Stephen A. Courtney (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885–1914

Linda Ratschiller (University of Fribourg, Switzerland).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy

Federico Morganti (Sapienza University of Rome).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

Caitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

The first Human Genome Project: computers and the mapping of human genes, 1950–1970

Michael McGovern (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Dinosaurs don't die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854–2001

Melanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Grünthal, Nikolai Hartmann and Schichtenlehre: instituting brain anatomy in a 1950s Swiss psychiatric hospital

Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Sensible error and other silly notions: galvanizing time in Victorian London

Ken Corbett (University of British Columbia).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Spaces for debate between science and religion in Franco's Spain: the intellectual conversations of Poblet (1959–1961)

Clara Florensa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures

Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

'Contagious' delusions? W.B.Carpenter and the politics of psycho-physiology in 19th-century Britain

Daniel Simpson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France

Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

The changing face of Penfield's homunculus

Zina Ward (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration

Shane McCorristine (Department of Geography).

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

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720

Michelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan

Oliver Marsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain

Simon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Varieties of tacit knowledge

Tim Rogan (Faculty of History).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

The meanings of a breakthrough: categories, news and priority in the making of transgenic mice

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators

Scott Anthony (Faculty of History).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Common sense and phrenology

Sean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Fashionable intelligence: popular experiences of galvanism and the Regency newspaper press

Iain P. Watts (Princeton University).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London

Nicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

'What is Mercury?', chapter 1 of The Making of English Alchemy, the speaker's forthcoming book

Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Studying Babylonia in Philadelphia: Assyriological practice and the University of Pennsylvania's museum, c.1900

Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Conceptual change in history of science

Irene Goudarouli (University of Athens).

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

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs

Please note change of speaker and topic

Alistair Sponsel (Harvard University).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

The global biopolitics of female sterilization

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Technological trajectories of hip replacement

Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight

Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Proctor's Mars: new astronomy and new journalism in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s

Joshua Nall (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist

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

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

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

The many roles of material variation in Charles Dufay's mémoires on electricity and phosphorescence

Michael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Human genetics and the blood transfusion services: circulating records, samples and expertise, 1939–1945

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

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

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?

Joeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Pierre-Olivier Méthot (University of Exeter).

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

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Did wonders ever cease? The singular, shining and spectacular in Charles Dufay's 'Mémoires sur l'électricité' (1733–7)

Michael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ancient Chinese mathematics in action: Wu Wen-Tsun's ethnic historicism after the Cultural Revolution

Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

'Lies and frivolity': manners in scientific dispute in 19th-century Britain and Germany

Raf De Bont (KU Leuven/Imperial College London).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

How the Harvard archives reveal that William James was a highly skilled hypnotist

Thibaud Trochu (University of Paris-I Sorbonne).

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

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

To graze and virtue: Anders Gabriel Duhre as a virtuous maker of useful knowledge in early 18th-century Sweden

Jacob Orrje (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Margaret Fountaine: the life and works of a rather ordinary Victorian lepidopterist

Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Concepts and perceptions of body size within western medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

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

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

From unhealthy lands to foyers of endemicity: malaria's place in the medical geography of French West Africa, ca.1880–1920

Christian Strother (Faculty of History).

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

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720

Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900

Kathryn Ticehurst (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England

Katie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces

Nils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s Québec

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

A scientific toy for red-blooded boys: the Gilbert chemistry set and non-journalistic popularization of science

Maggie Jack (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Teacher, toy, or calculator? Reflections of mathematics, education, and society in a 20th-century American object

Caitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

The contested banana tree: public debates about science in eighteenth-century Central America

Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Special session in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition

Various speakers.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 12:00-14:00

Authenticating nature: situating photographic trust in the late nineteenth century scientific periodical press

Geoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance

Nicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

The meaning of altruism in interwar London

Nick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology

Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosopy of Science).

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

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

'Strange are the ways of providence': Calvinism, evolution, and the autobiography of James Croll

Gerardo Con Díaz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 10 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

The politics of participation: Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory and the formation of civic selves

Frans Lundgren (Uppsala University).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Mad women and mad-doctors

Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press

Geoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries

Katie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour

Michael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

The golden road to China: cartographical representations of an improbable railway project, c.1881-5

Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800

Signe Nipper Nielsen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story

Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wu Wen-Tsun: a modern Chinese mathematician and the Chinese mathematical tradition

Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy

Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Puns and pea-shooters: play, words, and plays on words in John Ayrton Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest' (1827)

Melanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

'In shape vnparfett that nature hathe not drest': vision, experience and incongruous anatomies in early modern England

Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 11 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

Lydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Finding favour in the heavens and earth: Georg Stadius, Johannes Kepler and the composition of astrological calendars in early modern Graz

Please note change of day

Patrick Boner (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

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

Thursday 15 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Thomas Digges' astronomy

Katie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Preserving the forgotten: Fox Talbot’s interest in the antique – and what it has to do with photography

Mirjam Brusius (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China

Leon Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Political radicalism and scientific discovery: the Cambridge Biotheoretical Gathering, 1932-1937

Robin Scheffler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast

Sophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Refashioning women: dress, science and the female body in late nineteenth-century Britain

Margaret Olszewski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Monstrous deliveries: fetal anomalies and the making of facts in nineteenth-century obstetrics

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

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

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'

Natalie Kaoukji (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler

Patrick Boner (Kommission zur Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

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

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland

Francis Lucian Reid (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges

Lisa Mullins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

Lydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Samuel Lilley and the Commission for the History of the Social Relations of Science, 1947–53

Vidar Enebakk (University of Oslo, Norway).

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

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

Electrons in the family

Jaume Navarro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation

Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Maternal or fetal diagnostics? Practices of ultrasound imaging in Norway, 1970-1995

Lise Kvande (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

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

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge

Melanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 11 October 2006, 13:00-14:00