Cabinet of Natural History

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

Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

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

Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

The Theatre, Peterhouse.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

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

Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

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

Zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

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

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).

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

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

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

Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

McConnell Lecture

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

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

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

Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

Zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

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

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

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

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

Zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Physical computations are idealisations

Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

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

Zoom.

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

Early Science and Medicine

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

Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Online only

Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).

Zoom.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Focusing the disability gaze: perspectives for history of medicine and technology

Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

Zoom.

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

Early Science and Medicine

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

Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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