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Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:00-14:30
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'Measure once, cut twice': values and validity in youth mental health measurement
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The birth of scientific anti-racism
⚠️ Please note earlier time
Cabinet of Natural History
Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection
Coffee with Scientists
Research on research
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sex as a process
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Book symposium on Matteo Vagelli's 'Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science'
Early Science and Medicine
Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770–1800)
Cabinet of Natural History
Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning
Cabinet of Natural History
Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
AI, automation, and the problem of error in science
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940–70s)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Permission to know
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The secret causes of the Castle Bravo accident
Early Science and Medicine
Experimenting on/with eels: colonial space and electric knowledge construction in the 18th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A conceptual framework for reactivity in social scientific measurement
Early Science and Medicine
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality
Cabinet of Natural History
Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil
Coffee with Scientists
'Behavioural epidemiology': what triggers and enables large-scale behavioural change?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Navigating origin stories: the mariner's compass as a narrative instrument
⚠️ Anita McConnell Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Kuhn and Feyerabend on pluralism, education and history
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain
Cabinet of Natural History
Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture
Coffee with Scientists
Vaccine communication and policy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Institutionalizing values and science: the strengths of standardization in troubled times
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The Apgar score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts
Cabinet of Natural History
Who was Henslow?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reservoirs of venereal diseases: women and medico-moral discourses in Idi Amin's Uganda
⚠️ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The myth of the naïve empiricist
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
Cabinet of Natural History
Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
When is measurement good? Evidence, validity, and values
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does artificial creativity require artificial consciousness?
Early Science and Medicine
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610
Cabinet of Natural History
Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation
Coffee with Scientists
Phenomenological control in the laboratory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire – book launch event
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is historical mathematics largely true?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s
Cabinet of Natural History
Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Mary Hesse Lecture
How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity
⚠️ Second Annual Mary Hesse Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Do mathematical explanations impose a necessity on the natural world?
Early Science and Medicine
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern British life writing
Cabinet of Natural History
Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Hacks and explanations via program execution
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930–1940
British Society for the History of Science
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments
⚠️ CANCELLED
Coffee with Scientists
Science advice under uncertainty
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
But what is 'performativity of science'?
Cabinet of Natural History
Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?
Rausing Lecture
But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure
⚠️ Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala
Coffee with Scientists
TheCultureLab
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mobilizing medicine
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The pragmatic vindication of warranted belief
Cabinet of Natural History
Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Aristotle on what geometry is about
Cabinet of Natural History
Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Precision and active knowledge: measuring the fundamental physical constants, 1967–2018
Cabinet of Natural History
'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Doing your own patient activist research
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disinformation, denial, and the assault on truth
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The relationship between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics: the irregular case
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Progress is plural because science is social
Early Science and Medicine
What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creativity for the information age: making up minds and machines in the United States and the Soviet Union
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Trust in the fallible: lessons from uncertainty management in the environmental sciences
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How TV made 'The Naked Ape'
Cabinet of Natural History
Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623
Coffee with Scientists
Group selection and Ronald Fisher
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery
⚠️ Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Title to be confirmed
Early Science and Medicine
Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts
Cabinet of Natural History
'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where is Amazonia on display (today)? A global approach to understanding Amazonian collections
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Values in measurement: alternatives to democratic alignment in economic inequality metrics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained
Cabinet of Natural History
A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On conceptual engineering in psychiatry: is it time to eliminate or reappropriate the category of psychiatric disorder?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Trustworthiness, moral epistemic-duties, and public health guidance: the case of wildfire smoke
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia
Cabinet of Natural History
Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century
Coffee with Scientists
The evolution of sentience
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science as communication
Cabinet of Natural History
University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Recalculating equality: data, race and environmental health models in 19th-century West Africa
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pulling away from science, epistemic self-reliance, and the tale of Thabo Mbeki
Early Science and Medicine
The smallpox epidemic in 18th-century Tibet: theories, preventions and inoculations
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A domino theory of disease
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London
Cabinet of Natural History
The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Symposium: 'Patient-Centered Measurement' (2024)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The many births of the test-tube baby: proof and publicity in claims to a breakthrough
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England
Cabinet of Natural History
The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses
⚠️ Anita McConnell Lecture
Early Science and Medicine
Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300–1550)
Cabinet of Natural History
'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813–1850
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is science 'Western' science?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Models of information in structural biology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Examining the possibility of AI Affect in reinforcement learning systems
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution
Cabinet of Natural History
'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt
Mary Hesse Lecture
In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming
⚠️ First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Establishing a scientific fact from complex evidence: the earth's variable rotation
Early Science and Medicine
Garga's knowledge of the crow (vāyasavidyā) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Book symposium: The Edge of Sentience
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties
Cabinet of Natural History
A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England
Rausing Lecture
Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée
⚠️ Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science
Early Science and Medicine
Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465–1700
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The global health focus on early life: origin stories
Cabinet of Natural History
Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?
Early Science and Medicine
Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future
Cabinet of Natural History
The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War
Cabinet of Natural History
Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence
⚠️ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice
Early Science and Medicine
Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500
Cabinet of Natural History
Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference
Cabinet of Natural History
Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is AI generated art really art?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350
Cabinet of Natural History
Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Conceptualising climate futures
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Limit objects and emergence
Early Science and Medicine
Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760
Cabinet of Natural History
The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity
Cabinet of Natural History
Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
In defense of the medical model of obesity
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups
Early Science and Medicine
Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730
Cabinet of Natural History
A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
PhD Showcase
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present
Cabinet of Natural History
Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Unifying the notion of objectivity
Early Science and Medicine
The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia
Cabinet of Natural History
Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933
Cabinet of Natural History
Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lifecycle of a constant: e
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where inattention pays
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics
Cabinet of Natural History
Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections
⚠️ McConnell Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Can anyone be a target of discrimination? Lessons from philosophy of science and work on human kinds
Early Science and Medicine
Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy
⚠️ This seminar starts at 12noon
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lineages as evolving processes
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why we shouldn't democratise science
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies
Cabinet of Natural History
Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China
Rausing Lecture
Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene
⚠️ Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
In defence of dimensions
Early Science and Medicine
The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view
Cabinet of Natural History
The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Bayesian explanationism
Cabinet of Natural History
Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Not for me: on the external function of guilt
Early Science and Medicine
Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
Cabinet of Natural History
The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ways of branchmaking
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine
Cabinet of Natural History
Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise as perspectives in dialogue
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Can present-day philosophers make scientific contributions? From philosophy in science to conceptual and theoretical thinking in science
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature
Early Science and Medicine
Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period
Cabinet of Natural History
'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context
⚠️ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960
Cabinet of Natural History
Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression
Cabinet of Natural History
Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rationalizing discrimination
Cabinet of Natural History
The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The causal structure of cultural domination
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990
Cabinet of Natural History
Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?
Early Science and Medicine
Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688
Cabinet of Natural History
Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Against presence empiricism
Early Science and Medicine
'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India
Cabinet of Natural History
Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Identifying future-proof science
⚠️ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems
Early Science and Medicine
From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)
Cabinet of Natural History
From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization
Early Science and Medicine
Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'Put on my tomb: this is what she was trying for': the extraordinary life of Margaret Masterman
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Coloniality, global health, and reparations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Worries about philosopher experts
Early Science and Medicine
Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)
Cabinet of Natural History
'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'
Cabinet of Natural History
The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries
Cabinet of Natural History
Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America
Cabinet of Natural History
Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach
Cabinet of Natural History
Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)
Rausing Lecture
Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making
⚠️ Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Early Science and Medicine
Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art
Cabinet of Natural History
Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea
Early Science and Medicine
Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade
Cabinet of Natural History
The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning (to learn) from others
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On the nonexistence of moralometers
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010
⚠️ Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday
Cabinet of Natural History
The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer
Cabinet of Natural History
Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Epistemic bunkers
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927
⚠️ CANCELLED
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928–1955
⚠️ CANCELLED
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i
Cabinet of Natural History
Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences
Early Science and Medicine
Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)
Cabinet of Natural History
What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction
Cabinet of Natural History
Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico
Early Science and Medicine
Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids
Cabinet of Natural History
Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories
⚠️ Online only
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causal explanation and revealed preferences
Early Science and Medicine
Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Physical computations are idealisations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Climate storylines and managing uncertainty
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil
Cabinet of Natural History
The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing
Early Science and Medicine
Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter
Cabinet of Natural History
The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain
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
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk
Cabinet of Natural History
The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge
⚠️ Special session, 10am, online only
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)
Cabinet of Natural History
'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus
Rausing Lecture
The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world
⚠️ Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Early Science and Medicine
Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800
Cabinet of Natural History
The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic
Early Science and Medicine
The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization
Cabinet of Natural History
Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Futures
Cabinet of Natural History
Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
World models and intuition in the 1970s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940
Cabinet of Natural History
Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past
Early Science and Medicine
Birth, fate, and Roman futures
Cabinet of Natural History
Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s
Cabinet of Natural History
Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Drawing processes
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory
Early Science and Medicine
Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image
Cabinet of Natural History
Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening
Cabinet of Natural History
A natural history of evil
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Renaissance eugenics
Cabinet of Natural History
Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Truth AND consequences
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How does process tracing work?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to study animal minds
⚠️ HPS Virtual Conversation
Cabinet of Natural History
Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Do we live in a post-truth era?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gender and generation in premodern Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan
Cabinet of Natural History
'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A material history of 16th-century astronomy?
⚠️ Anita McConnell Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Learning from case studies
Early Science and Medicine
The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)
Cabinet of Natural History
Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830
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
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Science and speculation
Early Science and Medicine
The first Egyptian society
Cabinet of Natural History
Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany
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
Cabinet of Natural History
Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy
Cabinet of Natural History
Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s
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Twentieth Century Think Tank
Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s
⚠️ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Learning from sociological case studies
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice
⚠️ CANCELLED
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain
⚠️ CANCELLED
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues
⚠️ CANCELLED
Early Science and Medicine
Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
Cabinet of Natural History
Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s
Cabinet of Natural History
Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar
⚠️ Please note that this seminar is on a Friday
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The good news about killing people
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On pluralism in psychiatry
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The search for invertebrate consciousness
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974
Cabinet of Natural History
Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Creativity and AI
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How atoms became real
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China
Cabinet of Natural History
'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s
Early Science and Medicine
Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia
⚠️ CANCELLED
Coffee with Scientists
Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity
⚠️ CANCELLED
Coffee with Scientists
1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pluralism about actual causation
Early Science and Medicine
Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London
Cabinet of Natural History
'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and the approximation account of knowledge
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The replication crisis and philosophy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur
Coffee with Scientists
What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13th–16th centuries)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title
Cabinet of Natural History
It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria – the evolutionary ABCs
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The science of childhood: postcolonial development in India, 1950s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On validators for psychiatric categories
Early Science and Medicine
Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?
Cabinet of Natural History
The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800
Coffee with Scientists
Pluralism and monism in design fixation research
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Making a name in mid-century mathematics: individuals, institutions and the open secret of Nicolas Bourbaki
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913
Cabinet of Natural History
Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does science progress?
Cabinet of Natural History
Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England
Rausing Lecture
Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence
⚠️ Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Early modern history of data and epistemology of form
Cabinet of Natural History
Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry
Twentieth Century Think Tank
How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Follow the measures: conceptualization, measurement and interdisciplinarity in the science of empathy
Cabinet of Natural History
When is a cow not a cow?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The instrument of science
Cabinet of Natural History
The politics of the potato in the 19th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics
Early Science and Medicine
Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Insta-Glam: Smartphone Apps and Beauty Surveillance
Cabinet of Natural History
Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
V-Dem: measuring democracy
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction
⚠️ CANCELLED
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
Cabinet of Natural History
The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Class Ceiling: Why it Plays to be Privileged
Cabinet of Natural History
Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Beauty, truth and understanding
Early Science and Medicine
Giants and national identity in early modern Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A political history of apolitical science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Spatial experience: more than mere structure
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Anatomy museum on the move
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Is Europe Christian?
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Patient reported outcome measures are different
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Non-literal model interpretations
Early Science and Medicine
Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
What is the Sociology of Reproduction all about?
Cabinet of Natural History
Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanatory directionality
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s
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
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Decolonising the history of science curriculum
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The C theory of time
Early Science and Medicine
Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation
⚠️ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Time-asymmetry in thermal physics
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Being human, being Homo sapiens
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Memory: what is it good for?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Sociology 50th Anniversary Conference
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Critical conversations: intersectionality and sociology
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sociology at Cambridge: Past, Present and Future
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Sociology 50th Anniversary Conference
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Probabilistic actual causation
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination
Early Science and Medicine
From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century
Cabinet of Natural History
The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
How to do things with sensors
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in northeast China after the Communist Revolution
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanations for medical artificial intelligence
Early Science and Medicine
Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France
Cabinet of Natural History
Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency
Twentieth Century Think Tank
How US science moved west: Boulder, Colorado and the development of US space sciences in mid-20th century America
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Many Molyneux Questions
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France
Cabinet of Natural History
The long-lost Paston Collection
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
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?
Cabinet of Natural History
Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869
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
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth
⚠️ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A new way to defend the value free ideal for science
Cabinet of Natural History
Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration
Cabinet of Natural History
Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Guard against temptation: team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Fear and loathing in modern warfare
Cabinet of Natural History
Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Statistical biases in peer review
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument
⚠️ CANCELLED
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks
⚠️ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people
⚠️ CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection
⚠️ CANCELLED
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity
⚠️ CANCELLED
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
⚠️ CANCELLED
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disaggregating goods
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Early Science and Medicine
Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain
Cabinet of Natural History
Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The homelands of the plague: Soviet disease ecology in Central Asia, 1920s–1950s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Digital Fakery and its Consequences
Cabinet of Natural History
Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No interpretation of probability
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility
Cabinet of Natural History
Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sugar, science and the history of capitalism
Twentieth Century Think Tank
People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Dr Watson: the impending automation of medical diagnosis and treatment
Early Science and Medicine
Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
A Postcolonial Rethinking of the State and Nation: From Comparative to Connected Sociologies
Cabinet of Natural History
The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system
Cabinet of Natural History
Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Making sense of art and science
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What's the point of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Representing and explaining: the eikonic conception of explanation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Hybrid capture? A comparative perspective on the political economy of biomedical innovation in the age of neoliberal science
Cabinet of Natural History
A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian
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
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Quantum Bayesianism: the ineffable reality behind 'participatory realism'
Early Science and Medicine
Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century
Cabinet of Natural History
From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A bold hypothesis about pursuit
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The structure of structure: how Kuhn establishes that science requires historical explanation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Reviving analytical philosophy of history
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Drums of War, Drums of Peace: Erdogan’s Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan, and the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Cabinet of Natural History
Iron holds the whale
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the two kingdoms of Sicily
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Neuro-empire: rise of a medical-scientific discipline in modern Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causal decision theory and tragic evidence: Death in Damascus revisited
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda
Cabinet of Natural History
What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)
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
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Putting health and wellbeing evidence into policy
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'The battle is on': Lakatos, Feyerabend and the student protests
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86
Cabinet of Natural History
Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Conference: Centenary of the Russian Revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A contagious cause: the search for cancer viruses and the growth of American biomedicine
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The principle of stability
Early Science and Medicine
Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Jo Cox Lecture Series: Save the Children
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Genres of prediction: astrology between Sanskrit and Hindi print in colonial north India
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A struggle for the Soviet future: the birth of scientific forecasting in the Soviet Union
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
How do you feel? ‘Well- being’ and un-voiceability in UK universities
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
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation
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Early Science and Medicine
Joachim Wtewael and the human body
Cabinet of Natural History
On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage
Twentieth Century Think Tank
German émigré scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Listening to the chirps: how do the LIGO results test general relativity?
Cabinet of Natural History
Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific habits circa 1900
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The Theory Theory 2.0: Bayesian models, causal inference and cognitive development
Cabinet of Natural History
Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4
Rausing Lecture
The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?
⚠️ Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Listening to scientists' stories: using the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' archive
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Hegemony or Polarization? The Consequences of the Recent Power Shift in the Turkish News Media
Cabinet of Natural History
Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The materials for trust-building in expertise
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Shifting formats, changing priorities in the modern Chinese materia medica genre: from Zhao Yuhuang's single items to drugs in acupuncture channels
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Despotic and Infrastructural Power: The State in the 21st Century
Cabinet of Natural History
When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why the priority rule does not exist
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Brick Walls: Racism and Other Hard Histories
Cabinet of Natural History
Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The gifts of Athena revisited: protectionism, regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700–1800
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The Anthropocene seen by the Anopheles: fighting malarial mosquitoes with chemicals in modern China, 1910s–1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A biologically informed hylomorphism
Early Science and Medicine
The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa
Cabinet of Natural History
James Cuninghame – 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Disappearing big cats and multiplying man-eaters in the Indian Anthropocene
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ecological factors of attraction and causal explanation in cultural attractor theory
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Iran’s Rhetoric Aggression: the Hard Words of Soft War
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history and the antiquarian
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Changing practices: lessons from a re-study of eating out in England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Animal sentience and human values
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Towards a more realistic subjective decision theory
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Words That Kill: Rhetoric and Reality in the Discourse of the Front National
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On reasonable doubt
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pragmatist coherence as the source of truth and reality
Early Science and Medicine
The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500
Cabinet of Natural History
Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Emblematic alchemy: Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1617/18)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The Grammar of the Semi-Exact Sciences': Norbert Wiener in India, 1955–1956
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Delusional cognition as explanation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine
Cabinet of Natural History
The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768–1771
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The greening alliance: environment, development and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why common cause explanation is not the main business of historical reconstruction
Early Science and Medicine
Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet
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Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Social Media and Academic Labour
Cabinet of Natural History
Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970–2008
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system'
Cabinet of Natural History
Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
What works to prevent gendered violence. Keynote Address: Gendered Violence and the City
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Imaging the cytoskeleton – re-defining a biological entity with fluorescent antibodies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Assessing scientific theories
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Changing Context of Contraceptive Choice across the Reproductive Life Course in the USA and Britain
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Peculiar Institutions: Four centuries of race-making in the United States
Cabinet of Natural History
Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Newton's laws and epistemic amplification
Early Science and Medicine
Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica
Cabinet of Natural History
The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The ghetto and the prison
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Racialized slavery and racial terrorism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The hubris of youth? Oxford, Cambridge and the Arctic, c.1920–1940
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A science in translation: homoeopathy in colonial Bengal
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Race as symbolic violence and public dishonour
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What makes econophysics distinctive?
Early Science and Medicine
From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750–1830)
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Complexities of classification regarding infant "fear without solution": A case study in the sociology of psychological knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Embodied and situated moods
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture
Cabinet of Natural History
Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Out of Africa: The Organisation of Migrant Smuggling across the Mediterranean
Cabinet of Natural History
After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787–1810
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mechanisms and natural kinds
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A controlled environment: phytotrons, Cold War life science, and the making of the experimental plant
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Risk aversion and the long run
Early Science and Medicine
The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Salvador Allende Annual Lecture: Pigmentocracies: Race & Ethnicity from the Latin American experience
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Some sociological aspects of the detection of gravitational waves
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Comparative uncertainties: comparing comparisons in anthropology and animal behaviour science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Belief and statistical evidence
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Soy Afro: Me Reconozco y Cuento": Race, Racism and Representation of Blackness in Mexico
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798–1820
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Patterning within the disturbance of coherence': the practical work of measuring and classifying infant disorganised attachment
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Using organic chemistry to probe the limits of interventionism
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service
Cabinet of Natural History
'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Images as artefacts: film, photography and repatriation in Kenya
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
The emergence of bargaining inequity
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
‘You’re welcome? British Attitudes to Immigrants’ Nationality’
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Immigrant Access in the Affordable Care Act: Legacies of the Confederacy
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Political Sociology of Human Rights
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The inconsistency of quantum electrodynamics: a history
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures
Cabinet of Natural History
The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance
Rausing Lecture
Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age
⚠️ Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The pre-history of peer review: refereeing practices at the Royal Society
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Fathers' involvement in family life: changing cross-national difference in housework and child care
Cabinet of Natural History
Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities
Coffee with Scientists
How to study fire
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Why genetics succeeds: an epistemology of scientific practice
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Unveiling the world? Aerial photographs and the social sciences in interwar France
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No general structure
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Better Medical Research Without Patents? The Good-Pharma model.
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism
Coffee with Scientists
The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Research on the Shifting U.S. Political Terrain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two sovereign masters: pain, pleasure and utility from Bentham to Skinner
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Symposium: Feminist Classics Revisited 4: Nature, Culture and Gender (1980)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What's nu? Maxwell's electrical metrology and the electromagnetic theory of light reappraised
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Thinking through racial capitalism in our time
Cabinet of Natural History
Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species
Coffee with Scientists
How should scientists quantify academic value?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The science of wishing: Francis Bacon and the magical optative
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Builders of the vision
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Causes of War
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Hierarchical transition modes of biological systems are evolvable
Coffee with Scientists
Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Unifying theories: some lessons from the Cartwright-Smith exchange
Early Science and Medicine
Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Social Relations and Popular Protest from 1789 to 2011
Cabinet of Natural History
The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking
Coffee with Scientists
The second messenger concept – how the discovery of cyclic AMP dominated cell biology for 60 years
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading Rivière in early modern England: tracing early modern epistemic itineraries
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'A day of comparatively small things': spatial anxiety in the high British Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Prediction and medicine
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Challenging the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cunning, killer orchids
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Entangled histories: enactivism, representationalism and Frederic Bartlett
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Purging the nation: Race, place and geographies of encounter in the lives of British Bangladeshi Muslim young women
Cabinet of Natural History
Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century
Coffee with Scientists
Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Was geology the first science to inject history into the natural world?
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Brainwashing the cybernetic subject: The Ipcress File and fantasies of interrogation in the 1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanatory abstractions
Early Science and Medicine
A literary history of medicine: the world's earliest history of medicine, composed in Syria by the physician and poet Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah (d. 1270)
Cabinet of Natural History
Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics
Coffee with Scientists
Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Translating embodied skill: the politics of writing about making in the early modern period
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Measurement error and the problem of quantity individuation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
When the grass is greener: fertility intentions in a transnational context
Cabinet of Natural History
Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The impact of machines
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
How to Overcome Inequality
Cabinet of Natural History
John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Extracting the exotic: global chymical medicine in the seventeenth century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
CSER and the Leverhulme CFI: how, what and where next
Early Science and Medicine
Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam
⚠️ This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in Thailand
Cabinet of Natural History
Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does time seem to pass?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880–1950
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Why the Left should support leaving the European Union.
Coffee with Scientists
The Scharnhorst Effect: faster-than-light propagation and causality in the Casimir vacuum
Cabinet of Natural History
'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Prof Robert D. Putnam in conversation
Coffee with Scientists
Science education
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On geometrical concepts, proofs and understanding in pure and applied mathematics
Early Science and Medicine
Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Performing the Political: the drama of violence and nonviolence in political struggle
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Jeremy Corbyn: Miracle or Mirage?
Cabinet of Natural History
From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1924
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Negotiating 'applied science' in the early 1930s: new media, new discourses, new ideology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Three junctures of science and democracy: knowledge, value and policy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation: innovation, Politics and Promissory Science
Cabinet of Natural History
Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Electricity and crystallography: the history and philosophy of Curie's Principle
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Creating the New Islamic Middle Class: The Sociology of State-Building in Sudan
Cabinet of Natural History
The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England
Coffee with Scientists
Behavioural flexibility in birds and beyond
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
A Precariat Charter: Towards a New Progressive Politics.
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Magic bullets
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Absolute measures of effectiveness
Early Science and Medicine
On the political use of physiognomy around 1500
⚠️ This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Cabinet of Natural History
Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Winston's Gestapo': Churchill, the Royal Society and scientific secrecy before the Bomb
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Imprecise credences and the probabilistic liar
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Are family sizes of parents and children still related? Revisiting the cross-generational relationship over last century in France
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Patents, powders, profits: the background to and legal significance of the patent infringement trial Nobel's Explosives Co. v Anderson (1894)
Cabinet of Natural History
Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France
Coffee with Scientists
A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Questions and questionnaires: knowledge, evidences and rituals of speaking in the early modern period
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Simulating scientific merit dynamics
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Salvador Allende Memorial Lecture - The Chilean road to capitalism: the role of agrarian reform and peasant revolt before the coup
Coffee with Scientists
Making archaeological knowledge
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Egg and the Sperm 2.0
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
On the Political and Social Thought of Murray Bookchin and his Relevance in Rojava and Beyond
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Expecting misleading evidence
Early Science and Medicine
Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Why do some ethnic minority groups in the UK and Europe have high fertility?
Cabinet of Natural History
Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison
⚠️ Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On the movements and value of research data
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The argument from the good lot: unconceived alternatives and 20th-century genetics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS
Cabinet of Natural History
Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
2nd Graduate Conference: (In)security in a Global Age
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
2nd Graduate Conference: (In)security in a Global Age
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Book launch: Becoming Denmark: How societies build control of corruption
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Reflections on the Recent Spanish Elections in a European Context: A Roundtable Discussion
HPS History Workshop
Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
A talk on Hungarian contributions to social theory: 'Ex Oriente Lux: the legacy of Lukács, Mannheim and Hauser'
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Scapegoating "Strangers" in Europe: Deep Structures and Shallow Stereotypes of Fear
HPS History Workshop
Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
TACTICS AND STRATEGY FOR THE SYRIZA GOVERNMENT IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AUSTERITY
Rausing Lecture
Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview
⚠️ Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Idealization, abstraction and the ontic view of explanation
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
From Nation-States to Member States: European Integration and State Transformation
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
THE ROLE OF OLIGARCHS AND TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL IN UKRAINE'S CIVIL WAR.
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Can Tocqueville Karaoke or Sing Rule Britannia?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Intolerant bodies: on biological individuality and writing with scientists
HPS History Workshop
John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
There is no problem of interpersonal comparisons
Cabinet of Natural History
The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The beauty of science without the science of beauty
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
International Paretianism: a palatable response to climate change?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Anarchy in the UK: Economic Deprivation, Social Disorganization, and Political Grievances in the London Riot of 2011
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the 19th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Bypassing the brave new world: reporting transgenic mice in the early 1980s
HPS History Workshop
Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
From the biological self to psychological self
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Have war and violence declined through human history?
Cabinet of Natural History
Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
From ‘Protectors of Public Health’ to ‘Facilitators of Biomedical Innovation’: Drivers and Impacts of Trends in Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States and European Union since 1992
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Graduate Seminar: Networked Social Movements: a Global Perspective, 2010-2015
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909
Early Science and Medicine
The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710–1790): creating a digital edition
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance in the Digital Society
Cabinet of Natural History
Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890–1925
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Performing and mediating science on television
HPS History Workshop
Newtonian politics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Renewing Radical and Revolutionary Political Strategies: a reflection on sense and nonsense
Cabinet of Natural History
Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Psychometric validation as theory avoidance
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Malthus and the South Sea
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
A Post-Marxist Alternative to Neo-Liberal Economics
Cabinet of Natural History
Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The epidemiologist as culture hero: visualising humanity in the age of 'the next pandemic'
HPS History Workshop
The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)
Early Science and Medicine
Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626–1694)
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
Cabinet of Natural History
Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Renewing Radical and Revolutionary Political Strategies: a reflection on sense and nonsense
Cabinet of Natural History
Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cause, causatives and theories of causation
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' – the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films
HPS History Workshop
Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?
Cabinet of Natural History
'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rationality of science in relation to its history
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Can the Revolution in Kurdish Syria Succeed? Reflections based on a field visit
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colour me alchemical, or: form, execution and function in alchemical illustrations
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Poster display tactics as photographic arguments
HPS History Workshop
Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The subterranean influence of pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein
Early Science and Medicine
Casta paintings and the colonial body
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Imagining “Society” in Immigrant Integration Expertise
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation and prediction in epidemiology
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Developing speculative methods to explore speculative shipping: Mail art, exchange and futurity
Cabinet of Natural History
Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Indecent science: religion, science and movie censorship, 1930–1968
HPS History Workshop
Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Interventionist causation and the placement problem
Early Science and Medicine
Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500–1720: a case-study of the South West
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Title to be confirmed
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Age of iron, age of gold: the Thirty Years War, the German reformed diaspora, and the golden age of the Dutch universities
HPS History Workshop
Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history
⚠️ Please note change of date
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860–1960
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Why do Women do more Housework than Men? Experimental evidence from the UK
Cabinet of Natural History
W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Visual STS
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Things don't fall apart: persistence and functional explanation in social science
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663–1666
Early Science and Medicine
Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Urban Afterlives of Global Adjustment: Divergent Redevelopment and ‘Neoliberal' Trajectories in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cabinet of Natural History
The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830–1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New perspectives on the Great Exhibition
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Brownian motion pictures
HPS History Workshop
'Crackpots' and 'active researchers': the string wars, arXiv and the blogosphere
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Farewell to content
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933–1972
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy
Cabinet of Natural History
Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850s–1930s)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
HPS History Workshop
'Illuminating effects': visual culture and the exhibition of lighthouses in Victorian London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Accuracy-first epistemology
Early Science and Medicine
John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London
Cabinet of Natural History
Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Sociology Graduate Conference : Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Sociology Graduate Conference : Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Nature, culture and philosophy
⚠️ Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens
HPS History Workshop
Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885–1914
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Representationalism and pragmatism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Task-indexed belief
HPS History Workshop
The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sociology and auto/biography: notes on a journey
Cabinet of Natural History
Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750–1830
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The influence of neo-Kantian structural realism on the modernist aesthetics of TS Eliot and James Joyce
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sex Cells: the medical market for eggs and sperm
HPS History Workshop
Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Exploring the Secret Garden of Inequality Effects
Rausing Lecture
Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa
⚠️ Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is empathy? A genealogical account
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
There are mechanisms – and then there are mechanisms
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A sociology of algorithms: high-frequency trading and the shaping of markets
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation
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Cabinet of Natural History
Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence
HPS History Workshop
The first Human Genome Project: computers and the mapping of human genes, 1950–1970
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The special science dilemma and how culture solves it
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Food Prices, Maternal and Child Health, and Resilience in India: A Quasi-Natural Experiment
Cabinet of Natural History
Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Feminist Classics revisited 2
Twentieth Century Think Tank
X-rayed maize and mutant marigolds: a history of early plant biotechnologies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The scientific method: ignorance, uncertainty, doubt, failure...
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Have Societies Evolved?
Cabinet of Natural History
William Courten (1642–1702) and natural history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Seminar: Social Networks and Social Movements: a Global Perspective, 2010-2014
HPS History Workshop
Dinosaurs don't die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854–2001
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Nomic truth approximation by revising models and postulates in the light of increasing evidence
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The slow rise and rapid fall of the Muslim Brotherhood
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Collini (2006) Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Public Lecture: Internet and Society: the Culture of Autonomy
Cabinet of Natural History
National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
China Research Seminar Series
The urban formation process of China’s treaty ports, 1840s-1940s: Case studies of Shanghai and Tianjin
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The prospects for Darwinian imperialism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Generic speech acts and social kinds
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Triangulation of phenomena
Early Science and Medicine
From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century
Cabinet of Natural History
What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Harrisonomastix: dismantling the connection between experimental religion and experimental science in early modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The monster'? The British popular press and nuclear culture, 1945–1960s
HPS History Workshop
Grünthal, Nikolai Hartmann and Schichtenlehre: instituting brain anatomy in a 1950s Swiss psychiatric hospital
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Infinitesimal probabilities
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Independence for Catalonia?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Norbert Elias and his German Contempories
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The contingency of logical necessity: an analysis of a sociological account of logic
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and empire: the view from Beijing, c. 1700
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inference to the best explanation and paradigms
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The 20 Years Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising: round-table and screening
⚠️ Event organised by the Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge, and the Radical Americas Network
Cabinet of Natural History
Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two views of linguistic science and its data
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Acid fallout: the 1980s US scientific and political debates on the atmospheric transport of sulphur dioxide
HPS History Workshop
Sensible error and other silly notions: galvanizing time in Victorian London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How we manage to manage 'knowledge': using computational infrastructures in semantic systems biology
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Why Still Marry? The Role of Feelings in Marriage Choices
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Sartre on Public Intellectualism
Cabinet of Natural History
Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is evidence?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Human nature: from theory to practice
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Framing the nuclear: the psychology of British governmental nuclear decision making
HPS History Workshop
Spaces for debate between science and religion in Franco's Spain: the intellectual conversations of Poblet (1959–1961)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The epistemic innocence project
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Resilient Liberalism
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Edward Said (1993) Representations of the Intellectual
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'
Cabinet of Natural History
The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The medicalisation of love
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Is Austerity good for our Health?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Information channels and biomarkers of disease
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Propensities and pragmatism
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The multiple inventions of transgenic mice
Cabinet of Natural History
Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801–1837
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A California Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with apologies to Mark Twain), or why a molecular neurobiologist landed in HPS
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HPS History Workshop
Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The plurality of priority
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'VD is no camp': creating and communicating knowledge about same-sex venereal disease transmission in the Anglo-American world, c.1939–1984
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Location, multi-location and endurance
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Towards a unified model of a human being
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Afghanistan Post-2014: what does the future hold?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Film Screening: Border Crossing: the journey of Raymond Williams
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany
HPS History Workshop
'Contagious' delusions? W.B.Carpenter and the politics of psycho-physiology in 19th-century Britain
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On the evolutionary origins of morality
Early Science and Medicine
Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650–c.1830
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
When the Welfare State Disappears: Social Resilience and Rapid Socioeconomic Change in Greece.
Cabinet of Natural History
'Dangerous and improper material': models, preparations and the relationship between object and user in 18th- and 19th-century anatomical collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causal assessment and the question of stability
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Gestalt switches in the prize paper: inspiration for, but not an instance of, chaos
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s
Cabinet of Natural History
Willi Hennig and philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency
HPS History Workshop
Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The topology of intertheoretic reduction
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Infertility, IVF and the ART of Making Babies - a Turkish case study
Cabinet of Natural History
Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Prof Franklin's Inaugural Lecture: After IVF: the Reproductive Turn in Social Thought
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Armchair science
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Power in the Global Age: symposium with Michael Mann
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A trip to Mars by aeroplane': genres of public astronomy and the practice of astrophysics in the fin de siècle
China Research Seminar Series
What will China be like as a great power
HPS History Workshop
The changing face of Penfield's homunculus
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Individual risk: does it exist?
Early Science and Medicine
Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Development as Myth: Market Subjectivities in Post 1991 Urban India
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940–65
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A processual perspective on biology
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century
Cabinet of Natural History
The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672–99)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940–1980
China Research Seminar Series
Materia Medica and its Study in History of China (历史中的本草与本草学)
HPS History Workshop
Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration
HPS History Workshop
Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice
China Research Seminar Series
The Legitimacy of "Chinese Philosophy" (中国哲学的合法性问题)
Rausing Lecture
Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?
⚠️ Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS History Workshop
Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic humility
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Feminist Classics Revisited symposium: Ann Oakley's Sex, Gender and Society
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Explanation in neuroscience
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Two views on the relation between causality and probability
Cabinet of Natural History
Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900
China Research Seminar Series
Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire (巫蛊之祸和儒家帝国的兴起)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580–1720
HPS History Workshop
Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Knowing and understanding
Cabinet of Natural History
The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Controversy, mistrust, even witchcraft: the failure of cancer therapy with neutrons
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Science, sexuality and transnational networks in South African AIDS activism, 1994–2001
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Isaac Newton's scientific method
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Europe entrapped. Can the EU resolve its current crisis?
Cabinet of Natural History
Impressed upon the countenance: knowledge and visibility in Lavaterian physiognomy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding
⚠️ Postponed from 4 March
HPS History Workshop
Varieties of tacit knowledge
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The social epistemology of the International Panel on Climate Change
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The contribution of economists to the second Great Depression
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Economic Crisis in Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Charles Darwin and the margins between flora and fauna in the 1870s: the case of insectivorous plants
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Atomic energy and Britain's position in the world, 1954–56
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How autonomous are social scientific explanations?
History of Medicine Seminars
From benchside to clinic: the rise of monoclonal antibodies in healthcare
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system
HPS History Workshop
The meanings of a breakthrough: categories, news and priority in the making of transgenic mice
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does psychological knowledge presuppose self-knowledge? A Kantian perspective
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sacred D-Mark, Profane Euro: The Cultural Logic of Central Bank Independence
Cabinet of Natural History
Beefing up science: British Bovril, bulging biceps and nutrition science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kepler's Temple of Urania in the light of Hebenstreit's Idyll
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Scientific uncertainty and 'sufficient knowledge': the development of a European-wide research programme on acid rain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Theory ladenness and narrative in the history of science: (how) can historical evidence support philosophical arguments?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Real change happens in general relativity, even in Hamiltonian form
History of Medicine Seminars
Mapping the medical marketplace: early modern Welsh practitioners and medical retail
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Last Campaign
Cabinet of Natural History
Romanticism, aesthetics and violence in natural history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New light on Descartes's philosophical starting-point: an unknown manuscript of the Rules for the Direction of the Mind
HPS History Workshop
Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Winchgenstein and functional explanation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Obama in Power
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Science, Law and Kinship: alternative or complementary framings in atrocity victim identification?
Cabinet of Natural History
When the archaeologists are searching for a legend: the (re-)invention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Selection and maximization
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The fall of Johnstown: exhibiting disasters at the turn of the 20th century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Domain specificity in protein classification: a problem for monism
History of Medicine Seminars
Coping with recalcitrance: futility, frustration and failure in the history of cancer research
Cabinet of Natural History
'The man with the detective eye': observation in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789)
China Research Seminar Series
Inside and Outside the City Walls: Urbanization of Chinese Folkart (Quyi) and Urbanizing Chinese Folkart (a talk given in Chinese) 城墙内外：曲艺的都市化与都市化曲艺
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What pluralism could be and might do
HPS History Workshop
Common sense and phrenology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Dysfunction and biological variation: a problem for SE accounts of functions
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Importance of Being Civil
Cabinet of Natural History
Vivisection by storytelling: the experimental novel in the late 19th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The training and practice of English medical professionals in ophthalmia neonatorum, c. 1900–13
HPS Philosophy Workshop
More models, more problems?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of double-counting evidence illustrated by climate science
History of Medicine Seminars
Mental illness and cognitive impairment in central and late medieval Normandy: attitudes and responses
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710–1788
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
What the small print in the early medieval penitentials tells us about abortion
HPS History Workshop
Fashionable intelligence: popular experiences of galvanism and the Regency newspaper press
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Modality in decision theory
History of Medicine Seminars
Ordinary seamen, bodily knowledge and Royal Navy sex crimes trials, 1688–1783
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Traffic Unobserved: The Importance of Raising Awareness of Other, Emerging Forms of Trafficking in Persons
Cabinet of Natural History
Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history
China Research Seminar Series
中国区域经济增长收敛性的空间特征 (talk in Chinese)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930–1945
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Joseph Rotblat: physics, the Bomb and some consequences
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objectivity in psychology – a Kantian perspective
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Lanford's theorem and the emergence of irreversibility
Cabinet of Natural History
Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Infertility – the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870–1930
HPS History Workshop
Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Aesthetics in science
History of Medicine Seminars
Group formations: surgeons and artists in Victorian group portraiture
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
A Case Study of `New' and `Far Right' Attempts to Engage with Underground Music Scenes.
Cabinet of Natural History
'The Age of Reptiles' and 'Memnonium or Head of Rameses': the frontispiece of George Fleming Richardson's Geology for Beginners (1842 and 1843)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Ingenuity in the gallery
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The Peckham Experiment
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Mind your Ps and Qs: a contrastive account of testimonial inference to the best explanation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Altruism and relatedness in microbial populations
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England
Cabinet of Natural History
Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age
Philosophy Events
Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?
HPS History Workshop
'What is Mercury?', chapter 1 of The Making of English Alchemy, the speaker's forthcoming book
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A Humean alternative on what there is
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Return of Class.
Cabinet of Natural History
Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America
⚠️ Please note change of speaker and topic
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Wanting your own words: writing in the first person about sexuality and feminism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The chemical origins of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie Jr.'s Calculus of Chemical Operations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The meaning of 'kilogram'
History of Medicine Seminars
Consensus, correspondence and the development of the 'second opinion' in Nuremberg's medical reformation, 1560–1598
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800–200 BC
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Catharine Cockburn on substantival space: a 'new' 18th-century solution
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Politics of Preventing Poor Pharmaceutical Patents: Brazil, India, and Beyond
Cabinet of Natural History
The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!
China Research Seminar Series
Knowledge and Technology in Late Ming China
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science
⚠️ Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Heredity under the microscope
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Science funding 2.0
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
All possible perspectives: a defence of Eddington's selective subjectivism
History of Medicine Seminars
A delicate alliance: aid agencies and the media in Britain since the 1960s
Cabinet of Natural History
Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin
China Research Seminar Series
Assets valuation: Practices and Challenges in China's Transitional Period/中国资产价值评估：实践与挑战
HPS History Workshop
Studying Babylonia in Philadelphia: Assyriological practice and the University of Pennsylvania's museum, c.1900
HPS History Workshop
Conceptual change in history of science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The sciences of subjectivity
⚠️ Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Emergence in complexity science
Cabinet of Natural History
'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era
China Research Seminar Series
扬州“名医”李炳的医疗生涯及其历史记忆--- 兼论清代医生医名的获取与流传
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Darwin change his mind about sex ratio?
Rausing Lecture
The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control
⚠️ Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS History Workshop
From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs
⚠️ Please note change of speaker and topic
Cabinet of Natural History
'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kripke's Wittgenstein on meaning and rules
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Explaining work-life conflict of men and women: disentanling the impact of national contexts
Cabinet of Natural History
An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colonial classification
HPS History Workshop
The global biopolitics of female sterilization
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Bunkers and other risk assessments: (im-)material calculations of military and natural disasters
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Conceptualising the Quality of Employment
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Future of Capitalism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The paradoxes of quantum theory: solving vs. dissolving
Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College
Will China Rule the World (and should we be worried)?
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists
Cabinet of Natural History
Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Philosophical issues in research funding allocation
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Textual transmission and hypertextuality in ancient Mesopotamia: the example of the divinatory series šumma ālu and šumma izbu (second to first millennia BC)
China Research Seminar Series
价值主义教育观
China Research Seminar Series
The Shanzhai Phenomenon and its Implications
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Principles, pluralism and 'moral experts': reassessing the history of bioethics
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Social Mobility over three Generations in Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Thomas Bewick, engraving the world
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870s–1920s
HPS Philosophy Workshop
You can get here from there: 'thick' communication, interpretation, and projective identification explained
History of Medicine Seminars
Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Authorship and responsibility: literary trials and the ethics of writing (France, 19th-21th Century)
Cabinet of Natural History
Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe
⚠️ Please note change of speaker and title
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Metaphors, similarities and inferences
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Sex Ratio Imbalances and China's Care for Girls Programme
HPS History Workshop
'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century
⚠️ CANCELLED
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The narcissist and the coquette: contesting figures of sexual sociability
Cabinet of Natural History
Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany
An Ecology of Mind A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson
⚠️ A spell-binding, award-winning documentary on Gregory Bateson's life which is being screened all over Europe, North and South America.
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to count organisms
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Sui generis explanations: scientific progress and scientific realism
History of Medicine Seminars
A pre-peanut history of food allergy
Cabinet of Natural History
Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Impossible objects? Towards a history of modern sleep and dream research
HPS History Workshop
Technological trajectories of hip replacement
History of Medicine Seminars
Fitting for health: steel-trusses in the enlightened economy of healthcare
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Mechanisms of Control and their Effects on Solidarity: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Palestinian Enclaves across the Green Line
Cabinet of Natural History
Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Medical discourse and scientific thought-styles: what changes and what remains constant
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man
China Research Seminar Series
Banking in China and the Media
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific perspectivism and its foes
HPS History Workshop
How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
British 'sexology' and the uses of the past
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The case of social interaction in bioscience laboratories: a multi-site ethnographic study of design intent and user experience
Cabinet of Natural History
Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models
History of Medicine Seminars
Imagin(in)g the breast: mammography and breast cancer in the context of South-North American exchanges
Cabinet of Natural History
Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone'
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Revisiting the Mendelian revolution
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Good practices in rural landscapes: J. Entrican and the rediscovery of indigenous medicine in colonial Burma
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Mafias on the Move: how organised crime conquers new territories
Cabinet of Natural History
Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cambridge mathematics in the north: Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland and the local nature of mathematics in Edinburgh, 1858–65
HPS History Workshop
Proctor's Mars: new astronomy and new journalism in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The politics of STS: instituting science studies in the age of Cold War
History of Medicine Seminars
Medicine in and around Dunhuang: preliminary assessment of ancient transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Road
Cabinet of Natural History
Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking health, disease and modernity: a view from the farm, c.1930–70
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The equivocation objection to priority monism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A mould discarded: abortion and class in 1930s rhetoric and fiction
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Retooling Reproductive Sustance: IVF as a stem technology
Cabinet of Natural History
Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The mathematicians' philosophy: early Italian perspectives on the intellectual appropriation of the mechanical arts
HPS History Workshop
Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist
History of Medicine Seminars
Speaking for the patient as consumer in late 20th-century Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal
China Research Seminar Series
大学理念与教育质量，讨论剑桥对中国大学教育质量的启示
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Singularist semirealism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The ins and outs of mathematical explanation
History of Medicine Seminars
'Nott a sadder creature in the world': parental grief in early modern England, 1580–1720
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The palace of cats and falcons: 21st-century fauna in a 20th-century skyscraper
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Can Welfare State Models immunise Employees against the Effects of Job Insecurity? Flexicurity's claims examined
Cabinet of Natural History
Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rise of modern physics in Spain: knowledge, power and memory
HPS History Workshop
The many roles of material variation in Charles Dufay's mémoires on electricity and phosphorescence
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: Contemporary revolution in religious life
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The rise of Sartre and French existentialism
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Left in Crisis: what is next?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Creative Campus
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O'
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: Why do people works so hard?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics
Social Anthropology
Smuts Commonwealth Lecture - Empire and the Historical Imagination in Colonial India
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The event in the syndemic: state and subject formation in the two Manchurian pneumonic plague outbreaks (1910–11, 1920–21)
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Open Society and its Immigrants: avoidance, conflict and accommodation
Cabinet of Natural History
Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900
China Research Seminar Series
Fault Line in the Chinese Social Security System
HPS History Workshop
Human genetics and the blood transfusion services: circulating records, samples and expertise, 1939–1945
History of Medicine Seminars
Silent partners: artists and the mannequin from function to fetish
Cabinet of Natural History
'Your observations and experiments are by far the best which have ever been made': the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin's private correspondence
Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Seminar Series
A Natural Philosophy of Fortune. Apropos of Economic Theologies of Events, Luck and Vitality
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'
Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Seminar Series
The tribulations of suspended agency: bordedom in Inner Mongolia
Cabinet of Natural History
The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
From SPS [PPSIS] to The House of Commons: Social Science, Evidence and Policy
⚠️ Stella Creasy graduated from Social and Political Sciences Tripos (now PPS) and Magdalene College in 1999, and was elected as a Labour MP in 2010. Between these two she worked as a councillor in local government, obtained a PhD in social psychology from
HPS History Workshop
History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?
Rausing Lecture
Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment
⚠️ Sixteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS Philosophy Workshop
A framework for emergentism(s)
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
PUBLIC LECTURE: Cooperation
Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Seminar Series
Shamanism, ethnic spirits and dead prisoners in Ulaanbaatar
Cabinet of Natural History
Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lacan's conceptualization of the relation between psychoanalysis, science and philosophy
HPS History Workshop
Did wonders ever cease? The singular, shining and spectacular in Charles Dufay's 'Mémoires sur l'électricité' (1733–7)
Cabinet of Natural History
The fairy-tales of science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise, endorsement and enlightenment: the trials and tribulations of health foods in late eighteenth-century Paris
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact
Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Seminar Series
The 'religious administration' knowledge, surveillance and governmentality in 1930s Mongolia
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
From multi-racial subjects to multi-cultural citizens: social stratification and ethnoracial classification among children of immigrants in the UK
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Emergent logics of expulsion: beyond social exclusion
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The 'Great Ice Age' of anatomy: learning from frozen sections c. 1900
HPS History Workshop
Ancient Chinese mathematics in action: Wu Wen-Tsun's ethnic historicism after the Cultural Revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Decision making under indeterminacy
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
SEMINAR: Is one of the sources of social power ultimately decisive in determining the development of societies?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
PUBLIC LECTURE: The Political Sociology of Climate Change: causes and solutions
Research Office Linked Events
EC Funding Presentations
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Dreyfus Affair: the Orthodoxy revisited
Cabinet of Natural History
Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900
China Research Seminar Series
中国土地制度变革：历史借鉴与理论启示
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kuhn's education: Wittgenstein, pedagogy, and the road to structure
HPS History Workshop
'Lies and frivolity': manners in scientific dispute in 19th-century Britain and Germany
History of Medicine Seminars
Cloning and film: fictional vectors of factual imaginaries
Cabinet of Natural History
'Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype': travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East
China Research Seminar Series
关于传统文化与“社会科学中国化”的一些思考
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Erotic Capital: Extending Bourdieu
Cabinet of Natural History
Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams
HPS History Workshop
How the Harvard archives reveal that William James was a highly skilled hypnotist
History of Medicine Seminars
Mortars, exotic drugs, and a battle for expertise: Verona 1561–1566
China Research Seminar Series
海湾战争20周年讨论会
Cabinet of Natural History
The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life
China Research Seminar Series
中国的人文哲学
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How much pluralism?
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Rise of Existentialism: a case study in the sociology of intellectual life
Cabinet of Natural History
Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A history of a tenth of a second
HPS History Workshop
To graze and virtue: Anders Gabriel Duhre as a virtuous maker of useful knowledge in early 18th-century Sweden
History of Medicine Seminars
'Patient zero' and the early years of the North American AIDS epidemic
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Migration and the rise of the radical right in Europe
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountainous effects: Alpine space and Victorian lady climbers
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to carve nature across the joints without abandoning Kripke-Putnam semantics
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s–1960s
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Nature of Empathy
Cabinet of Natural History
The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history
China Research Seminar Series
什么是环境史?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'In God we trust, all others we monitor': seismology and international affairs during the Cold War
HPS History Workshop
Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta
History of Medicine Seminars
Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Sociology of Resentment: the American Tea Party Movement
Cabinet of Natural History
The hungry cats of Pietro Antonio Michiel, or the fragile nature of Renaissance collecting
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Seminar: Greater gender equality, (un)happier families?
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine
⚠️ Please note change of time and venue
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Seminar: Shock Tactics: health inside out
Cabinet of Natural History
Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England
HPS History Workshop
Margaret Fountaine: the life and works of a rather ordinary Victorian lepidopterist
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Images in medicine, medicine in images
Cabinet of Natural History
The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape
China Research Seminar Series
中国非营利组织与公共服务：从疏离到互动
China Research Seminar Series
中国农村的公共服务政策：嬗变与重构
China Research Seminar Series
中国财政体制与转移支付
China Research Seminar Series
如何理解当代中国政府发展：一个分析框架
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems
HPS Philosophy Workshop
An unstable hybrid - dissolving the metaethical puzzle
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The virtual object of public health, or: the problem of 'life' in China, 1911–1937
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Seminar: Autonomy and Dependence: the paradox of the believer as subject
Cabinet of Natural History
The human automatism debate in the late 19th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism
HPS History Workshop
Concepts and perceptions of body size within western medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
History of Medicine Seminars
'A cold-blooded business'? Making the modern blood donor in wartime London
Cabinet of Natural History
Victorian palaeontology and serial publication
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Wir sind alle Afrikaner': a brief history and philosophy of the biological 'race' concept
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nature and the space of reasons
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Seminar: Sacred Frontiers: the reinvention of everyday life in Jerusalem's Old City
Cabinet of Natural History
Politeness and the ethical force of natural history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain
HPS History Workshop
From unhealthy lands to foyers of endemicity: malaria's place in the medical geography of French West Africa, ca.1880–1920
History of Medicine Seminars
Catholic activists, medical authority and the limiting of peasant choice in rural Brittany, 1650–1750
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The vernacular fortunes of the Pseudo-Galenic Liber tertius in Anglo-Saxon England
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Seminar: Alternative Economic Cultures in a Context of Crisis
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Public Lecture: The Multidimentional Crisis of Informational Capitalism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Organisms, autonomy and division of labour
History of Medicine Seminars
The 'miracle of childbirth': the portrayal of parturient women in medieval miracle narratives
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Public Lecture: Bourdieu Race and the Penal System
Cabinet of Natural History
Maya ruins, volcanoes and the colonial state in 18th-century Central America
HPS History Workshop
Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720
History of Medicine Seminars
Diseased on an Indian Ocean island: medicine, statishness and colonialism
Cabinet of Natural History
Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Leprosy, gender and punishment in thirteenth-century Rouen
China Research Seminar Series
抗美援朝六十周年
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The CCR5 gene patent: biomedicine, intellectual property and commerce in the United States
Rausing Lecture
From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren
⚠️ Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Marginal cures: landscape and healing in eleventh-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
The herbarium and the computer: investigating John Henslow's science
China Research Seminar Series
The Colossal Ships of Zheng He (郑和宝船)
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Where is the Worl Going? Understanding World Dynamics - Public Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Nature teaching on the blackboard: visual learning in early twentieth-century English school science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biological psychiatry, 1960 to the present
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Digital Natives and Globalisation: the case of Japanese Youth's Engagement with Digital Media
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Guido da Vigevano's Regimen Sanitatis and attitudes to old age
Cabinet of Natural History
Experiments in description: Victorian physics and the natural history of electricity
China Research Seminar Series
Natural History in Traditional China, a tale of text and illustration (传统中国的博物学：文本和图像的历史)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Rise and Recessions of Neoliberalism, 1970-2010 - Public Lecture
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Can American Imperialism Survive for Long in the 21st Century?
China Research Seminar Series
中国大型国企的海外扩张战略(China’s OFDI and Resource-Seeking Strategy)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Justice and automated match officiating
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
On Critique in a Time of Crisis
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Simultaneous Resurgence of Russia and Russophobia
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The marginality of charms in medieval England
Cabinet of Natural History
Dragons, insects and porcupines: locating the Victorian 'dinosaur'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Epistemic risk and public health science
China Research Seminar Series
基督教的美学意义(Aesthetic Significance of Christianity)
China Research Seminar Series
骊乾人与罗马军团—— 一个遥远的传说 (Liqian, a 2000-Year-Old Puzzle — Lost Roman Legion In Ancient China?)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The solution to the problem of mental causation
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
O the noise, noise, Noise, NOISE!
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Lacan's Dialectic of Enlightenment: from Kantian autonomy to the Freudian partial object
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The source of intellectuals’ public standing: the lessons from a Nobel Trinity
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The physicians' stone: alchemical medicine in fifteenth-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century
China Research Seminar Series
The Tendency of Chinese Thoughts after the Rise of China (在世俗化与复魅之间：西藏现代性的两难境地)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism
HPS History Workshop
Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900
HPS History Workshop
Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England
Cabinet of Natural History
William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Special Sociology Lecture: The Increasing Significance if Guanxi
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Ethics, risk and public works: models of optimal risk reduction
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Politics of Exile in Latin America
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The earliest English culinary recipes: dietary recommendations in Old English medical texts
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion
China Research Seminar Series
中国崛起后的思想走向(The Tendency of Chinese Thoughts after the Rise of China)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Toys in Monkeyland: the utility of anatomical models and medical expertise in late eighteenth-century Vienna
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry
History of Medicine Seminars
The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Engineers of Jihad
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Dr John Argentein (1443-1508): medical knowledge and practice in the 15th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Why expert judgment isn't evidence: a qualified defence of the EBM position
HPS History Workshop
Title to be confirmed
HPS History Workshop
White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces
Cabinet of Natural History
Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Causation and exceptions
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The sociology of elite distinctions
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Reconstructing Old English anatomical vocabulary
Cabinet of Natural History
The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology
HPS History Workshop
Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s Québec
HPS History Workshop
A scientific toy for red-blooded boys: the Gilbert chemistry set and non-journalistic popularization of science
History of Medicine Seminars
'Isolates' and 'crosses': human evolution and population genetics in the mid-twentieth century
Cabinet of Natural History
The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Description, design and aesthesis in the work of John Ray and contemporaries
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemology of memory
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Michelin-starred restaurant sector as a culture industry: a cross-national comparison of restaurants in Britain and Germany
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton
HPS History Workshop
Teacher, toy, or calculator? Reflections of mathematics, education, and society in a 20th-century American object
HPS History Workshop
The contested banana tree: public debates about science in eighteenth-century Central America
History of Medicine Seminars
Practitioners, products and promotion: the medical trade catalogue and professional ethics in Britain, 1880–1914
Cabinet of Natural History
Lyell's plots
China Research Seminar Series
The Tang dynasty and its place in the grand narrative of Chinese history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is a thick concept?
History of Medicine Seminars
Medical knowledge and enlightened war: British and French military medicine in the eighteenth century
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Zeitgeists, nightmares and research; what makes social theory better than common sense?
Cabinet of Natural History
Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain
HPS History Workshop
Special session in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition
Cabinet of Natural History
After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Social knowing
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemic principle of alternative possibilities
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
To take power or not? Observations on the new political cultures of opposition in the Americas
Cabinet of Natural History
Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we 'need some large, simple randomized trials'?
HPS History Workshop
Authenticating nature: situating photographic trust in the late nineteenth century scientific periodical press
HPS History Workshop
The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Special Sociology Lecture: Greed talk, religion and the credit crunch in the USA: towards a cultural sociology of the economy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dr Lauder Lindsay's lemmings: mad beasts and misanthropy in a Victorian asylum
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Deference at a distance
History of Medicine Seminars
Mechanizing war and medicine: rationalized fracture care in World War I
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
What do we know about the relative generosity of welfare states?
Cabinet of Natural History
'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930
China Research Seminar Series
台北条约（1952）的签订及影响
HPS History Workshop
The meaning of altruism in interwar London
HPS History Workshop
Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology
Cabinet of Natural History
Fungi in history
China Research Seminar Series
Modern Reflections on Ancient Greek and Chinese Science and Culture(对古希腊与中国的科学文化的现代反思)
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
Social Stratification Research Seminar, 2009
Scientific Images Discussion Group
'Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy' (1804)
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Is art historical methodology useful for HPS and how could it be applied?
HPS History Workshop
'Strange are the ways of providence': Calvinism, evolution, and the autobiography of James Croll
China Research Seminar Series
周朝秘史
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty
⚠️ Valedictory Lecture
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger
China Research Seminar Series
“进化”与“进步”——悬而未决？(‘Evolution ’ or ‘Development’-A Pending Question )
Rausing Lecture
Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world
⚠️ Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Scientific Images Discussion Group
A (visual) tour of the wisdom of the human eye with Robert Boyle
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Visualizing nature: Marianne North's botanical portraits at Kew
HPS History Workshop
The politics of participation: Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory and the formation of civic selves
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew
China Research Seminar Series
China in Tomorrow's World
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What reasons needn't be
Cabinet of Natural History
Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England
China Research Seminar Series
Understanding other culture: some reflections in relation to China and the West
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Picturing points: geometric imagination in the first English translations of Euclid's Elements
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Doughnut holes and paper cut-outs: image, visualization and manipulation in low dimensional topology
HPS History Workshop
Mad women and mad-doctors
Cabinet of Natural History
Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Insanity, divine madness and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation
HPS Philosophy Workshop
So what is psychological identification anyway?
Cabinet of Natural History
'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causation, models of disease and epidemiology
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The historiography of the scientific image
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Images of blood transfusion in wartime London
HPS History Workshop
Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press
Cabinet of Natural History
Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualisation of life
Cabinet of Natural History
Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children
China Research Seminar Series
Encountering Hellenism (Roundtable Discussion）
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
'A function of the time': the Cavendish Society and its Postprandial Proceedings
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Where do the laws of logic come from?
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Curious – Looking at Microscopy through Craft and Technology
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Time flies: Exploring Visual Links between Hummingbird Iconography and the Aztec Calendar
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On recent work on faultless disagreement
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
How creative is evolutionary computation?
HPS History Workshop
Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries
Early Science and Medicine
How (not) to read the advertisements of oculists: records, testimonies and the strategy of personal encounters in the early 18th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
High science: hill stations and modern astrophysics
Cabinet of Natural History
'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20
China Research Seminar Series
China and Central Asia: Rhythms of the Past and Tunes for the Future
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Consensus and disagreement in science
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Towards a postmodern concept of risk: the contribution of risk perception studies
Early Science and Medicine
The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13th–14th centuries)
Cabinet of Natural History
Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
The phenomenology of the extended mind: why your beliefs are not in your iPhone
HPS History Workshop
God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation
Cabinet of Natural History
JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger
⚠️ Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Defending shallow essentialism
Scientific Images Discussion Group
When Nature Begins to Write Herself: German Romantics Read the Electrophore
Early Science and Medicine
'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism
Cabinet of Natural History
Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update
⚠️ Please note change of venue
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Narratives in Greek mathematics?
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Recarving the cognitive joints of nature
HPS History Workshop
The golden road to China: cartographical representations of an improbable railway project, c.1881-5
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Mars Globes and the Canal Controversy
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience
Cabinet of Natural History
The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Proofs, refutations and heuristics: historical and essentialist standpoints in Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Human Art and Natural Beauty in eighteenth-century Microscopy
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Between law and astronomy: Kepler, Galileo and the uses of witnessing
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience
HPS History Workshop
Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The Historiography of the Scientific Image
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context
Cabinet of Natural History
Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Thinking 'through numbers'
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Status of human tissues
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience
Cabinet of Natural History
Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe
Psy Studies
Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland
⚠️ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM
HPS History Workshop
Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Documentary sociology: Mass-Observation as aesthetic science
Early Science and Medicine
Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary
Cabinet of Natural History
A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Is the pessimistic induction valid?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark
Cabinet of Natural History
Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where does a claim for the necessity of historical knowledge lead in the human sciences?
Psy Studies
How the insane crossed the Channel: a forgotten aspect of the Franco-British shared psychiatric history
HPS History Workshop
Wu Wen-Tsun: a modern Chinese mathematician and the Chinese mathematical tradition
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Methodology and the visual image
⚠️ Please note the different time
Scientific Images Discussion Group
On allegories and vanities, and the connections between science, art and collecting in the Spanish Baroque culture
⚠️ Please note the different time
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Der neue Trend – no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945–1975
Cabinet of Natural History
New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance
Early Science and Medicine
Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province
Cabinet of Natural History
The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Peter Lipton Memorial Conference
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900
HPS History Workshop
'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shape of the conceptual
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain
Cabinet of Natural History
Orford Ness: landscape of war and science
HPS History Workshop
Puns and pea-shooters: play, words, and plays on words in John Ayrton Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest' (1827)
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The visual language of geology, 1760-1840
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Isaac Newton's architectural drawings of the Temple of Solomon
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy
Cabinet of Natural History
The evolution of wonder
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A Roman engineer’s tales
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Modernist aesthetics, Marxist science
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Topographical anatomy and the visual culture of Edinburgh obstetrics
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
HPS History Workshop
'In shape vnparfett that nature hathe not drest': vision, experience and incongruous anatomies in early modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The new riddle of causation
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms
Cabinet of Natural History
Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Slavery in the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic world
HPS History Workshop
The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
Cabinet of Natural History
Triangulations: poetry, plants and politics in the late eighteenth century
Rausing Lecture
Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power
⚠️ Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Guide dogs for the sighted: the role of canis familiaris in constructing images of Victorian town and country
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis
Cabinet of Natural History
Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy
HPS History Workshop
Finding favour in the heavens and earth: Georg Stadius, Johannes Kepler and the composition of astrological calendars in early modern Graz
⚠️ Please note change of day
Cabinet of Natural History
Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What is an organism?
Scientific Images Discussion Group
The problem with periodicals in the 19th century
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Portrait of a spark: William Armstrong's photographs of electricity (1897)
HPS Philosophy Workshop
A social construction of health
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop
Psy Studies
The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s
⚠️ Please note early start
HPS History Workshop
Thomas Digges' astronomy
Cabinet of Natural History
Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Jan Vermeer's images of scientists and Pascal's "esprit de finesse": art, philosophy and science in the Dutch Golden Age
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Editing early-modern astronomical diagrams
Psy Studies
Exploring the human psyche: psychology and British psychic detective fiction at the turn of the 20th century
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Mind-dependence and realism about the mind
Cabinet of Natural History
Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century France: the Saint-Aubins’ Livre des Culs
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Why is the violin so hard to play?
HPS History Workshop
Preserving the forgotten: Fox Talbot’s interest in the antique – and what it has to do with photography
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture
⚠️ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective
Early Science and Medicine
Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders
Cabinet of Natural History
Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century
HPS History Workshop
Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
⚠️ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Contracting the philosopher’s stone: fraud, risk and profit in early modern alchemy
Psy Studies
Colonising and de-colonising psychoanalysis in the 1950s: Masud Khan amongst the British
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Subjective probability and action guidance
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Biotrash: medical garbage in India
Cabinet of Natural History
Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926
HPS History Workshop
Political radicalism and scientific discovery: the Cambridge Biotheoretical Gathering, 1932-1937
Early Science and Medicine
Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world
Cabinet of Natural History
Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Thatcher, scientist
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The primacy of secondary qualities
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museum’s cranial collection, 1869-1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics
HPS History Workshop
Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast
Cabinet of Natural History
‘What is meant by this system?’ Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease
Early Science and Medicine
Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early Modern France
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Saving equality from the dustbin of history: a refutation of the ‘meritocracy thesis’ from The Bell Curve
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition
Cabinet of Natural History
Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Spinoza on law and sovereignty
Early Science and Medicine
Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘Taiwan's Mainlanders' identity crisis and adaptation under the Presidency of Chen Shui-bian’.
Cabinet of Natural History
The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968
Psy Studies
The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Psychological identification and numerical identity: the unlikely connection
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘Chinese media concepts in a historical perspective’.
Cabinet of Natural History
'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Are there Lewis conventions?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘REACTIONARY DISSENT IN LATE WARRING STATES CHINA: SITUATING THE ‘PRIMITIVIST’ LAYER IN LAOZI AND ZHUANGZI’
Cabinet of Natural History
Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The special kind of unpredictability of chaotic systems
Early Science and Medicine
Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘Contesting good taste, shaping Japanese bodies: The department store MITSUKOSHI and modern identities’
Cabinet of Natural History
'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Practical reasoning and inference
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘Chinese printed illustrations around 1600: additional notes on Xixiang ji and Pipa ji’.
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Sybil' in particulars and generals: inductive logic and Victorian narrative
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Is teleportation a (quantum) mystery?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘Towards a History of Natural Disasters in China: the Case of Linfen county (Shanxi)’
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
The material realisation and conceptual interpretation of observational processes
Cabinet of Natural History
Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain
Early Science and Medicine
Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘Personalized choices: redrawing the boundaries of families and everyday life under neoliberal reform in Japan’
East Asia Institute Seminars
‘The First Emperor's tomb and Sima Qian - an archaeological inquiry’.
Cabinet of Natural History
'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Instrumentalism for historians and philosophers
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Building better brains: the ethics of cognitive and affective enhancement
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Supposing this and that
HPS History Workshop
Refashioning women: dress, science and the female body in late nineteenth-century Britain
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Knowledge of counterfactuals
HPS History Workshop
Monstrous deliveries: fetal anomalies and the making of facts in nineteenth-century obstetrics
Rausing Lecture
Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com
⚠️ The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Psy Studies
'We might as well call it stuff!': A short history of information as a psychological concept
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Williamson on knowledge as the most general factive mental state
HPS History Workshop
The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'
Cabinet of Natural History
Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Understanding counterfactuals
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Williamson on knowledge
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kepler as chronologer
HPS History Workshop
A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler
Cabinet of Natural History
Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Provisional knowledge
Psy Studies
‘No! No! Not the comfy chair!’ The power of the experimental situation in social psychology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
"Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording"
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Anatomical politics and urban transformation in Vienna, 1848–1945
HPS History Workshop
Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland
Early Science and Medicine
‘Murderous pity?’ Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society
Cabinet of Natural History
Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Practices, rules and motivation
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives
Cabinet of Natural History
The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reference failure: why worry?
HPS History Workshop
'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything
Cabinet of Natural History
"Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol"
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism
Early Science and Medicine
Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt
Cabinet of Natural History
Alchemy and natural history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology
HPS History Workshop
The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States
Cabinet of Natural History
Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The difference between cause and condition
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies
Cabinet of Natural History
Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction
HPS History Workshop
Samuel Lilley and the Commission for the History of the Social Relations of Science, 1947–53
Early Science and Medicine
Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris
Cabinet of Natural History
Geological deluge and snowball Earth
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Relative meaning
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan
Cabinet of Natural History
Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain
HPS History Workshop
Electrons in the family
Early Science and Medicine
'Desperate and incurable': defining breast cancer in England c.1550-1800
East Asia Institute Seminars
Assessing the Legacy of former Korean President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kim Dae-Jung
⚠️ Room changed
Cabinet of Natural History
Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Agreement and the new relativism (work in progress)
Psy Studies
Shell shock to PTSD: a step change in the conceptualisation of psychological responses to traumatic events
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference
East Asia Institute Seminars
"Why Work So Hard?" Thoughts on Anxiety and Consumption in Early Modern Japan
⚠️ Room changed
Cabinet of Natural History
More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Making truth or masking lies: the triumph of the Conards
HPS History Workshop
Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals
Cabinet of Natural History
R.A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Perceptual knowledge and discrimination (work in progress)
Psy Studies
Angina pectoris and the Arnolds: emotions and the framing of heart disease in medical history
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work
Early Science and Medicine
The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment
Cabinet of Natural History
Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950
⚠️ Note: This seminar will start at 12.30
HPS History Workshop
Maternal or fetal diagnostics? Practices of ultrasound imaging in Norway, 1970-1995
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Not all computations are effective methods
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual
Cabinet of Natural History
Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India
HPS History Workshop
Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge
Early Science and Medicine
Sterility and the disordered household in Early Modern England and France
Cabinet of Natural History
The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon
Cabinet of Natural History
Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation
⚠️ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
Cabinet of Natural History
Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"
⚠️ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
Cabinet of Natural History
The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century
⚠️ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
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