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One-Day Meeting.
Friday 27 March 2026, 09:00-17:45
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Contact: Dr Barry Dixon
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
David MacKay: Energy and Information
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
β οΈ Please note earlier time
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Peer review, past, present⦠and future
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. 1770β1800)
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What is Digital Identity all about?
Cabinet of Natural History
Kew Gardens Panel β 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 (1940β70s)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Permission to know
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayveβs Journey in Autonomous Driving
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer
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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A Lot of Hot Air: volcanic degassing and its impact on our environment
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The myth of the naΓ―ve empiricist
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Putting the βSβ into mechanics
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, 1607β1610
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 β 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies
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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Chiral Universe
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930β1940
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
β οΈ 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
β οΈ 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 (1647β1682): 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, 1967β2018
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Unknown Maxwell
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and βbeyond-Liβ battery technologies function
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and βbeyond-Liβ battery technologies function
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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Protein self-assembly β understanding and controlling the machinery of life
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Protein self-assembly β understanding and controlling the machinery of life
Cabinet of Natural History
'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996β2004
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Why thereβs no such thing as βtheβ scientific advice
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
To Bend or to Break? β new views on the hardening of metals
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914β15) 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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Signals from the beginning of the universe
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
β οΈ Anita McConnell Lecture
Early Science and Medicine
Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300β1550)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?
Cabinet of Natural History
'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813β1850
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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows
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
β οΈ 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 (vΔyasavidyΔ) 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries
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 durΓ©e
β οΈ 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, 1465β1700
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism
Cambridge Philosophical Society
SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting
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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, 1300β1500
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart
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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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms
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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.1150β1350
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope
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Cabinet of Natural History
Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769β1838
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, 1840sβ1850s
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, 1650β1760
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Going beyond emissions reduction β Climate Repair
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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.1700β1730
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens
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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, 1899β1933
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting
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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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory
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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
β οΈ 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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story
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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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials
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Rausing Lecture
Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene
β οΈ 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 SociΓ©tΓ© Royale de MΓ©decine 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 1932β1933 in Soviet Ukraine
Cabinet of Natural History
Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700β72
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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting
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Early Science and Medicine
Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics
β οΈ Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe
β οΈ Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
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, 1890β1960
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?
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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
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development
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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, 1940β1990
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, 1680β1688
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE β Some wrinkles in Gaussβ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes
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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. 1820β1850
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, 1600β1750
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Identifying future-proof science
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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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery
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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.1670β1750)
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL Lecture β The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress
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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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge Darwins in Conversation
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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, 1950sβ1990s
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age
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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 SΓ©bastien Le Clerc (1637β1714)
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'
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end
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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 (1552β1580)
Rausing Lecture
Environing technologies β shaping, seeing, sense-making
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting
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Early Science and Medicine
Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?
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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, 1935β2010
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Cabinet of Natural History
The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655β1659)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic
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Cabinet of Natural History
Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Epistemic bunkers
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927
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History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Should we Automate?
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928β1955
β οΈ 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 (ΚΏishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200β1520)
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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Biology of Eating
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Cabinet of Natural History
Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy
β οΈ Online only
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities
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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
β οΈ McConnell Lecture
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?
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Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595β1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?
β οΈ 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
β οΈ Special session, 10am, online only
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain
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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
β οΈ Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Early Science and Medicine
Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500βc.1800
Cabinet of Natural History
The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771β1832
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe
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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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
LECTURE - title to be confirmed
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty
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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, 1890β1940
Cabinet of Natural History
Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800β1850
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, 1900β1939
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, 1771β1810s
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas
β οΈ YouTube Lecture available online now
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk
β οΈ YouTube Lecture available online now
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: AmΓlcar 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 (1773β1779)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Truth AND consequences
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed
β οΈ ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON
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
β οΈ 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, 1956β62
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A material history of 16th-century astronomy?
β οΈ 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. 1897β1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960sβ80s)
Cabinet of Natural History
Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680β1830
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960β2020
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, 1975β1993
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting
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Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Bridging the Gap: writing commentaries on the Dead Sea scrolls in the 21st century
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things
Cabinet of Natural History
Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s
β οΈ CANCELLED
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Learning from sociological case studies
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Beginnings of Global Opera
Cabinet of Natural History
Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?
β οΈ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South Asia
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?
Cabinet of Natural History
Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain
β οΈ CANCELLED
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume
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
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life
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 (1937β1945)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The search for invertebrate consciousness
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an enslaved Melanesian
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
ββBeing an Islanderβ: art and identity of the large Mediterranean Islandsβ, or, can museums really contribute to research in social sciences?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799β1925
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
A Journey into Rap Studies: from Londonβs hip-hop scenes to grimey Englishness
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
Coffee with Scientists
Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Content of Style - What makes Classical Greek Art 'Classical'?
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
How to Hunt a Submarine
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 (13thβ16th 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 (1858β1899)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria β 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again
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, 1740β1800
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, 1861β1913
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
βStay in your shell, that will be of use to you:β The miniature shell collection in Petronella Brandtβs dollhouse
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
*CANCELLED* Economic Transformation and the Proliferation of Gambling in the Western Pacific
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does science progress?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Habitual Sophia? Retaining oneβs ability to learn from within aach lay-professional encounter
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
β οΈ 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 (1864β1867)
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Philosophers against Idleness
Cabinet of Natural History
When is a cow not a cow?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The instrument of science
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
India: An idiosycratic democracy
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences
β οΈ 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences
β οΈ 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Politics Gone Missing
Early Science and Medicine
Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Musicians, Tazkiras, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where music went after Muhammad Shah
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West Germany
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
When algebra meets geometry
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661β1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Patient reported outcome measures are different
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life
β οΈ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Non-literal model interpretations
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
How Churchill Waged War
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern Yorkists
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?
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
β οΈ 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 (1955β1964)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The C theory of time
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Anglosphere Tradition in British Politics
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Time-asymmetry in thermal physics
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Profitable Labour? Learning Disability and Labour Markets in Modern Britain
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops
Cabinet of Natural History
Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825β1872
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?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Re-membering Philologia: the past, present and future of an academic practice
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Academic Citizenship and the Future University
Early Science and Medicine
From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwinβs chemistry set
β οΈ This lecture has been cancelled
Cabinet of Natural History
The Curious Martin Folkes (1690β1754): 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
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Role of Water in Venetian Architecture
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. 1948β1959
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanations for medical artificial intelligence
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Synaesthesia & Art - Dance of Light
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
CANCELLED βAt the still point of the turning worldβ: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story
Cabinet of Natural History
The long-lost Paston Collection
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Who is my neighbour?': Stories of alms-seeking in early modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Before Trump: the neoliberalβilliberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
β οΈ Note unusual day and time
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Death by Celibacy, or the Medieval Priest's Dilemma
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Labour and the Left in the 1980s: A reassessment
Cabinet of Natural History
Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834β1869
Rausing Lecture
Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa
β οΈ 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
β οΈ 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 (1686β1756)
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Adano: Sicily, occupation literature and the American century
Cabinet of Natural History
Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864βc.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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Debate over Feature Film History
Cabinet of Natural History
Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenthβcentury British slave trade
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Statistical biases in peer review
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What we donβt know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING
β οΈ ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century promises through literature, law and history
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
New micro-machines, new materials
Cabinet of Natural History
The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Systems for Big Data Applications:Revolutionising personal computing
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
What is the History of the Book?
Cabinet of Natural History
A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection
β οΈ 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
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Strong Bonds, Affective Labour: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Work of History
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disaggregating goods
β οΈ Please note change of day and time
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Rather more than Thirty-Nine Steps: the life of John Buchan
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Alas, poor Yorick!': Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" after 250 years'
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, 1920sβ1930s
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, 1920sβ1950s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Parkinson's Rehabilitation using interactive Dance Technology
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft
β οΈ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No interpretation of probability
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Roland the Hero
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Quotation and the Law
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The first Geological Chronology of Ancient Egypt and the antiquity of Man,1847-63
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Donald Trump: The Making of a World View
Early Science and Medicine
Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive
Cabinet of Natural History
The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846β63
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Are our genes to blame when our jeans don't fit?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship in the First World War
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Boy and The Brothers: The story of a young Londoner in the service of higher powers
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Cambridge University, Past and Present'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Quantum Bayesianism: the ineffable reality behind 'participatory realism'
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'A Double Delight': Spiritual experiences of recovery from illness in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
Early Science and Medicine
Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Ways of Reading, Looking, and Imagining: Contemporary Fiction and Its Optics'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Reviving analytical philosophy of history
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'The Japanese Mingei Movement and the art of Katazome'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causal decision theory and tragic evidence: Death in Damascus revisited
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'An idea whose time has come?' Tracing the history of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-201
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Honouring Giulio Regeni: a plea for research in risky environments'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'The battle is on': Lakatos, Feyerabend and the student protests
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Boxes with false bottoms? The challenge presented by abstract key words in English
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585β86
Cabinet of Natural History
Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Cryptocurrency and BLOCKCHAIN β PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'(Ump,)': Printing hiccups in the authors' absence or, A Tale of compulsion and imprisonment in Early Modern England
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century
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, 1800β1850
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Walking through Language β Building Memory Palaces in Virtual Reality'
β οΈ THis talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation
β οΈ Please note earlier time
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Italian, Male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regime
Early Science and Medicine
Joachim Wtewael and the human body
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life
Cabinet of Natural History
On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage
Twentieth Century Think Tank
German Γ©migrΓ© scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Education, Spaces, Meanings: A Cultural Political Economy Account of the Role of Higher Education in Building Regions in Latin America'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Finance, Power and Globalisation: German Bankers and the Rise of International Banking in China (1885-1919)'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany
Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars
Mastering the time in music performance (and elsewhere): Reconnecting with the past, feeling the future and enjoying the present
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'I have sought to serve German art with all my strength': Impressionism and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'"Chantez la vie, l'amour, et la mort": the French 'chanson' in context'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Gender, Obedience, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in a world after Kant
Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars
Book Launch: From Tongue To Text
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
βThe Right to do what one wantsβ: Ancient democratic conception of freedom and its reception in Plato and the Stoics
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Listening to the chirps: how do the LIGO results test general relativity?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Captured and Alive: War satire, time and space
Cabinet of Natural History
Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783β4
Rausing Lecture
The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?
β οΈ 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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Partisanship, petitioning, and deliberation in British politics, c. 1689-1750'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Poetry and memory: investigating the value of the memorised poem'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Privacy and Tabloid Journalism in the UK: A shifting landscape
Cabinet of Natural History
When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals
Cambridge Philosophical Society
New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING
β οΈ ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED
Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars
3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Childrenβs Literature
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Riverscapes of the Amazonian Wauja people'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why the priority rule does not exist
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Pardoner's Passing and How it Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905β1940s
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Environmental diversity of Architecture
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, 1700β1800
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The Anthropocene seen by the Anopheles: fighting malarial mosquitoes with chemicals in modern China, 1910sβ1960s
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Are the dons still a self-governing community of Scholars?'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A biologically informed hylomorphism
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Foreign Office, Margaret Thatcher and South Africa, 1979-90
Early Science and Medicine
The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa
Cabinet of Natural History
James Cuninghame β 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Disappearing big cats and multiplying man-eaters in the Indian Anthropocene
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability
β οΈ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Courts, Constitution and Democracy in Bangladesh'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ecological factors of attraction and causal explanation in cultural attractor theory
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Britain and the Continent: two thousand years of unpredictability
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history and the antiquarian
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Animal sentience and human values
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'"All that is solid melts into air": Burne-Jones and the Matter of History'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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, 1980β2000
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The origins of India's democracy: making universal franchise in the world's largest democracy
Early Science and Medicine
The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One
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, 1955β1956
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Whoah! We're going to Ibiza!' Know your rights as an air traveler
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Delusional cognition as explanation
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Scholarly publication in the seventeenth century: Oxford, Cambridge and the 'learned press'
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, 1768β1771
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Chasing Cuckoos'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why common cause explanation is not the main business of historical reconstruction
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Ideal Self: Flattery in Julius Caesar
Early Science and Medicine
Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet
β οΈ CANCELLED
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices
Cabinet of Natural History
Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970β2008
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Anything but Idle: Reading and Editing the Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Trade unions and the British tradition of pluralism
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
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Imaging the cytoskeleton β re-defining a biological entity with fluorescent antibodies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Assessing scientific theories
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Editing Shakespeare in Translation'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Invitations to Shared Viewership in Sandro Botticelli's Illustrations of Dante's Paradiso'
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Big Cats and the City: building evidence against out-of-place beasts in India'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Murder in Norwich, Narrative in Europe. The Birth of the 'Blood Libel' in Medieval England'
Early Science and Medicine
Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Climate change and local wildlife
Cabinet of Natural History
The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The hubris of youth? Oxford, Cambridge and the Arctic, c.1920β1940
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A science in translation: homoeopathy in colonial Bengal
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What makes econophysics distinctive?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'The afterlives of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery; or, 'excavating' in the archives'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'[T]hough Ramme stinks with cookes and ale,/ Yet say thers many a worthy lawyers chamber,/ Buts vpon Rame-Alley': An Innsman Goes to the Playhouse'
Early Science and Medicine
From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750β1830)
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
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Delusional cognition as explanation
β οΈ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some Challenges Explored'
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Molecular medicines for the lysosome
Cabinet of Natural History
Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'The Influence of Flavius Josephus upon Christian Art'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787β1810
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Between Perversity and 'Good Practice': Same-sex Schoolgirl Intimacy in Colonial Korea'
β οΈ this talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'The Humanities and the Machine'
Early Science and Medicine
The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Remembering the Gold Era: the hidden heritage of Central Otagoβs gold rush'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'David 'Jose' Rubio (1934β2000): A Personal Insight into Britain's Most Illustrious Musical Instrument Maker'
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798β1820
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Commemorating the First World War a 100 Years on in Popular and Public History'
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Packing dominoes and other shapes
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Can Journalism keep up with the Kardashians?
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is a talk postponed from earlier in the term.
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Gowns, squares, and bulldogs: Proctors and Constables in the University of Cambridge
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'The Power of Families in Preventing Radicalization -- a bottom up Security Strategy'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Migration and asylum in the UK: Catholic perspectives and contributions'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
An 'Age of the Crisis of Man'? 'Human Personality' in British Social Thought, 1910-1973
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'A Brief History of Demons: Encounters with the Supernatural in Body and Soul'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The inconsistency of quantum electrodynamics: a history
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance
Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars
Horse Tales: Writing the Equine in Childrenβs Literature
Rausing Lecture
Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age
β οΈ Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The pre-history of peer review: refereeing practices at the Royal Society
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Hong Kong Literature after 1989: A Very Short Introduction'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Revisiting Edward Carson'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No general structure
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"'If I were a Rich Man...' The extraordinary rise and fall of the Jewish department store entrepreneur in Germany 1881-1939'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661β1706): 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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two sovereign masters: pain, pleasure and utility from Bentham to Skinner
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'The German Heraclitus: Exploring the esoteric habitus of Oswald Spengler'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What's nu? Maxwell's electrical metrology and the electromagnetic theory of light reappraised
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'"A Plague on Both Your Houses": coping with epidemic disease in early modern Tuscany'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'The Significance of Design: how design can change your future'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Hierarchical transition modes of biological systems are evolvable
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First World War
Coffee with Scientists
Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science
Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016
Play Like A Girl
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur'an."
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Unifying theories: some lessons from the Cartwright-Smith exchange
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Advertising the Future in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease
Cabinet of Natural History
The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking
Coffee with Scientists
The second messenger concept β 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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'The River Ganges running red: reversing the divine'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Prediction and medicine
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Antislavery and Empire: Paradoxes of Liberation in the Western Indian Ocean'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cunning, killer orchids
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Cultural Narratives of Dementia and Care in Post-War Japan'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"Oriental Plague": Sinophobias Compared
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Tuna, Geopolitics and the Indian Ocean'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Measurement error and the problem of quantity individuation
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
London in the Fog: The Artistic Response to Air Pollution
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
A Fossil Feast: 31 December 1853, Sydenham Park, London
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Male memory, female subject: writing Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft '
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Humanitarian Action in Armed Conflict'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
CSER and the Leverhulme CFI: how, what and where next
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Professor and the Ambassador - the Peel Commission on Palestine, 1937 and its aftermath
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam
β οΈ This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Social Media, African Chiefs and New Experiments in Public Administration in Kenya
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does time seem to pass?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Evolved and Evolving 'Mind' of the American South ?
β οΈ This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880β1950
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'The cultural self-fashioning of Frederick the Great'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Coffee with Scientists
Science education
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On geometrical concepts, proofs and understanding in pure and applied mathematics
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Making Sense of Assassinations'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'The Social and Cultural Translation of the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern England'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world
Cabinet of Natural History
From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' β the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886β1924
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
βTed Hughes: Ecopoet and Environmentalistβ
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Stirbitch: Performing the Vanished Polis
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"Curriculum confrontation: the perils of reviewing upper secondary education in the European Schools"
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
In the steps of the crusaders: heritage, poltiics, experience
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Magic bullets
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage
β οΈ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Absolute measures of effectiveness
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"English medieval romance in the age of print"
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Telling What Happened;. Shackleton's Endurance Expedition:Narratives and Narrators
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
On the political use of physiognomy around 1500
β οΈ This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The human brain - a lesson in green technology
Cabinet of Natural History
Systems, synonyms and strife β 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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"Approaching William Blake's Fourfold Vision through Cognitive Theory and Enlightenment Philosophy"
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
John Aubrey, My Own Life, an experiment in biography
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"A question of temperament": Identifying Musical Tones
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Three Standing Figures - from stone, to studio, to the open air
β οΈ this talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cambridge Philosophical Society
On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere
Coffee with Scientists
Making archaeological knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"How Britain missed its chance to bring democracy to Libya"
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Expecting misleading evidence
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Moving pictures, moving stories: what archive films reveal
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula
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
β οΈ 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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"Mixed feelings. Norwegian attitudes to the Britons, 1814-1914."
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
βThβemprenting of hir consolaciounβ: persuasive speech and resistant listeners in βThe Franklinβs Taleβ
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate
Cabinet of Natural History
Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica
HPS History Workshop
Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Creation, Collaboration, Contemplation: Academic Libraries and the Digital Revolution
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Hiroshima: under the bomb 70 years on
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Metaphor
β οΈ NOTE: this talk is not on the usual day/time of Humanities Society talks but on Thursday 4th June from 16.30.
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Living Conditions in Ancient Egyptian Settlements and the Place occupied by the Non-Elite Population
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
HPS History Workshop
Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
What is going on in Portugal? A Critical Reflection of the Political Consequences of Austerity
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Rausing Lecture
Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview
β οΈ Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Trust and Power in the Art Market: A Machiavellian World?"
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Idealization, abstraction and the ontic view of explanation
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventure.
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Aronβs political antinomies and the constitution of international order.
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
There is no problem of interpersonal comparisons
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
βTrade (mark) wars, 1860-1920: sweatshops, the retail trade and the meaning of trade marks.β
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
John Clare: The Nature of Writing
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
International Paretianism: a palatable response to climate change?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Social security in Britain - cost or benefit? An historical perspective on a 2015 general election issue.
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Rock legends: naming planets
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Rock legends: naming planets
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
From the biological self to psychological self
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Churchill and the Islamic World
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Experiences of a female lawyer in Kuwait
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Paradise Lost? How the Internet has changed
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Muslims under Nazi rule, 1941-1945
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710β1790): creating a digital edition
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material
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, 1890β1925
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
How to read the Confessions of Augustine
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
London Bridge in the late fifteenth century: βcomparable in itself to a little cityβ?
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950sβ1970s
Cabinet of Natural History
Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600β1800
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Ancient Historians in Context: The Curious Case of Diodorus
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Psychometric validation as theory avoidance
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Malthus and the South Sea
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Fitzwilliam Museum: A Short History
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Ibsen's women - on and off the stage
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626β1694)
Cabinet of Natural History
Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650β1720
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Aesthetics as Intrinsic to Sustainable Design: Architectural Education Projects From Around the World
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Hinduism': the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our world
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health
Cabinet of Natural History
Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770β1821)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cause, causatives and theories of causation
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' β the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films
HPS History Workshop
Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550β1750
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Picturing Identities: A Participatory Visual Project with Young Italian migrants to the UK
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Israel and Antisemitism
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
When Britons were slaves: Barbary slavery and its consequences
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Opening of 'The Royal Academy at Wolfson'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Honour of Sharing : the Sharing of Honour
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The subterranean influence of pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The oldest illustrated book in Cambridge - a reconsideration of the St Augustine Gospels
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Casta paintings and the colonial body
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation and prediction in epidemiology
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
βTriumph of the Real: From The Communist Manifesto to Jason Bourneβ
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing It
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine
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, 1930β1968
HPS History Workshop
Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: The Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Interventionist causation and the placement problem
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Religion and Humour: The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice in Egyptian Cartoons
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
Early Science and Medicine
Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500β1720: a case-study of the South West
Cambridge Philosophical Society
MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Title to be confirmed
β οΈ Please note change of date and time
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Could computers understand their own programs?
HPS History Workshop
Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history
β οΈ Please note change of date
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Ancient Hints for a Modern Method of Studying Consciousness
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Does Westminster Still Represent the Westminster Model ?
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860β1960
Cabinet of Natural History
W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Visual STS
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
General Thompsonβs Enharmonic Guitar
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Things don't fall apart: persistence and functional explanation in social science
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern Science
β οΈ This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cells
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663β1666
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Adaptations and Illustrations of Laurence Sterneβs Tristram Shandy
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficient
β οΈ This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages
Cabinet of Natural History
The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830β1900
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Useful Idiots: On the Democratic Virtues of Conspiracy Theories
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Pickwick in the Trenches: Dickens and Dickensians in the Great War
β οΈ This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Perception and belief in psychosis
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933β1972
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'Mount Athos; the artist's view'
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'The nightingales wonβt let you sleep in Platres'. Re-visiting the Greek Past
β οΈ This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and may be podcast
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
Cabinet of Natural History
Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850sβ1930s)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The realist stance
β οΈ Note unusual day and time
HPS History Workshop
'Illuminating effects': visual culture and the exhibition of lighthouses in Victorian London
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Accuracy-first epistemology
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The colonial roots of German folklore studies, 1850s-1930s
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Erasmus Darwin: Poet of Progress
β οΈ This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe
Cabinet of Natural History
Jean AndrΓ© Peyssonnel and the coral island
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Nature, culture and philosophy
β οΈ Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens
HPS History Workshop
Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885β1914
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Making sense of the Whipple Museumβs Muggletonian astronomical prints
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Representationalism and pragmatism
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Popular Sentiment and Constitutional Problems in the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake: Self-Defense Forces, the Imperial System and Democracy
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Forty years of food
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance Italy
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750β1830
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The War Philosophers: How much were our ideas shaped by war?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The influence of neo-Kantian structural realism on the modernist aesthetics of TS Eliot and James Joyce
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"The Role of Creative Nonfiction and Literary Journalism in the American Literary Academy."
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Stopped transit. Eastern European Jews in Weimar Berlin
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Climate Change and Conspiracy Theory
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Rausing Lecture
Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa
β οΈ 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 β and then there are mechanisms
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A sociology of algorithms: high-frequency trading and the shaping of markets
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices
β οΈ The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota
β οΈ The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation
β οΈ POSTPONED
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Roman tradition and the rebirth of public powers in Europe
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Further Thoughts on the Undivided Past
β οΈ This talk is public and may be podcast
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, 1950β1970
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The special science dilemma and how culture solves it
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Do Chinese Fathers Say the L Word?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
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...
Cabinet of Natural History
William Courten (1642β1702) 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Perception and belief in psychosis
HPS History Workshop
Dinosaurs don't die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854β2001
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Nomic truth approximation by revising models and postulates in the light of increasing evidence
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The science of horror: post-traumatic stress in children and adolescents
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft β making energy go further
Cabinet of Natural History
National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Archaeology and the trade of the port of Suakin, Sudan
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Rogue Judges - Rebels or Reformers? The Case of Sir Henry McCardie
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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, 1945β1960s
HPS History Workshop
GrΓΌnthal, Nikolai Hartmann and Schichtenlehre: instituting brain anatomy in a 1950s Swiss psychiatric hospital
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Infinitesimal probabilities
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Reforming teaching: a social cognitive perspective
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Neoliberalism, Socialism, and the Politics of Knowledge
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running
β οΈ A V HILL LECTURE
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Helmut Schmidt, Harold Wilson, and the British Renegotiation of EC-Membership, 1974-5
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The First Bohemians: the Artists of Eighteenth-Century Covent Garden
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Societies in Orbit: Historicizing the European Space Age, 1942-1972
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'The True Function of Education'
β οΈ This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The memories of a village in the Revolution: Las Terrazas (Cuba)
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Reform, Revolution, Reaction. Land and the indigenous question in Allende's Chile.
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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 (1959β1961)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The epistemic innocence project
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Tudor Renaissance Monuments Deconstructed and Reconstructed: 3D Laser scanning and the Tombs of the Dukes of Norfolk
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Looking Inside the Box, Thinking Outside the Box: Exhibiting Fiji in Cambridge
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide
β οΈ G I TAYLOR LECTURE
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Information channels and biomarkers of disease
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Propensities and pragmatism
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Radical Sisters: Four Victorian Women
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the Gaze
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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, 1801β1837
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
β οΈ Please note change of date
HPS History Workshop
Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
To Be or Not to Be: British Approaches towards Europe in the Postwar World
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The plurality of priority
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Planning for Survival in the Cold War
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
β οΈ CANCELLED
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.1939β1984
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Location, multi-location and endurance
Arts, Culture and Education
βLearning and the development of musical expertiseβ
β οΈ Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Libya's post-Qadhafi Fissures: Federalists, Islamists, Berbers and the Militias
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Towards a unified model of a human being
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Mermaids, Cables and the Deep Sea: the telegraphic imagery in the 19th century
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing
β οΈ Note new start time of 6.00pm
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Legacies of Forced Migration: Attending to History and Discourse
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On the evolutionary origins of morality
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Visions of Power
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Early Science and Medicine
Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650βc.1830
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
Arts, Culture and Education
From βMusic for the Banalβ to βThe Listening Museumβ; An examination of listening through found objects and site-specific work
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute
β οΈ HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE
Arts, Culture and Education
βChanging attitudes and teaching strategies in music education classrooms to bring out the best in our students and teachersβ
β οΈ Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The role of popular Islam in Sudan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Gestalt switches in the prize paper: inspiration for, but not an instance of, chaos
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Calories and Corsets: 2000 years of diets and dieting
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?
β οΈ Note new start time of 6.00pm
Cabinet of Natural History
Willi Hennig and philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency
Arts, Culture and Education
βFacing the music: An investigation of musiciansβ physical and mental responsesβ
β οΈ Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
HPS History Workshop
Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The quest to conceive: How intended parents navigate the new reproductive technologies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The topology of intertheoretic reduction
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Feudalism in the Medieval West: βThe Tyranny of a Constructβ
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture
Cabinet of Natural History
Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science
Arts, Culture and Education
βTransformative music engagement: Making music learning matterβ
β οΈ Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Reforming Law to deal with banking crises
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Armchair science
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Ideological Ends of British Imperialism: Decolonisation and the βFederal Momentβ
β οΈ This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. It may be podcast.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns
β οΈ Note new start time of 6.00pm
Arts, Culture and Education
Evaluating music creativity through an assessment rubric
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
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
HPS History Workshop
The changing face of Penfield's homunculus
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Smile when Suffering: Cartoons from the Trenches, 1914-18
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Individual risk: does it exist?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's box
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Early Science and Medicine
Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940β65
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The joy of gardening
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A processual perspective on biology
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Arts and Humanities Today: Re-framing the βvalueβ debate
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation
β οΈ LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm
Cabinet of Natural History
The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672β99)
Arts, Culture and Education
A role for the e-portfolio in educating the professional musician (not the music teacher)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940β1980
Arts, Culture and Education
βMotor learning and music teachingβ
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Arts, Culture and Education
βMusical Lifespans And The Complexities of Adult Learningβ
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Arts, Culture and Education
βTransmission and Transformation of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong: From School Education to Professional Trainingβ
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Arts, Culture and Education
βThe psychological skills of music performance: The missing link in the training of performing artistsβ
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Arts, Culture and Education
βMixing It Up: A Blended Approach to Practice-based Research Training in Musicβ
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
HPS History Workshop
Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration
Arts, Culture and Education
Curriculum design and assessment practices for measuring contemporary musical learning
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Love Market: How Shopping for Dates Online Affects Women
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Sappho, Lincoln, & the American Senate: Picturing Female Desire in the 19th Century
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is the last talk of the term.
HPS History Workshop
Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660β1720
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Scientific Approaches to Musical Improvisation
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Is French Law Different from English Law?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Zimbabwe since Independence
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Rausing Lecture
Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?
β οΈ Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS History Workshop
Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Roald Amundsen, the Attainment of the South Pole, and the End of the Age of Discovery
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic humility
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Culture, Politics, identity: how we know who we think we are
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770βc.1820
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Explanation in neuroscience
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Derek Mahon's 'Museum Without Walls'
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Two views on the relation between causality and probability
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Some English Scholars in Aleppo,1620-1760
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Cabinet of Natural History
Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580β1720
Arts, Culture and Education
Keeping the World in Mind: Cultural Diversity in Music Education
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
HPS History Workshop
Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain
Arts, Culture and Education
Every picture tells a story: Using childrenβs drawings in educational research
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
Arts, Culture and Education
Standing βon our own two feetβ: the story of a practitioner based research project with a primary-aged extra-curricular instrumental group
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
BerlusconItaly's Immor(t)ality
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Knowing and understanding
Arts, Culture and Education
Between pleasure and pain in conducting a research process. Reflections on a journey of βlearning by writingβ
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Coin Finds and History in Cambridge
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
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, 1994β2001
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
An Evening with Artist Anthony Green
β οΈ Reception in the Combination Room from 19:00-20:30
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Isaac Newton's scientific method
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Architecture & Design in Medieval Morocco: the building strategies of the Marinid sultans
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?
β οΈ The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants
β οΈ The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
Arts, Culture and Education
What can Teachers Learn from Popular Musicians
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Arts, Culture and Education
New Methods for Teaching Music Composition
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Arts, Culture and Education
In the Looking Glass of Education: Music in the School CurriculumβWhen Two Worlds Meet
Arts, Culture and Education
The Poetics of Teaching Art
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Arts, Culture and Education
Up Hill and Down Dale: The trials and triumphs of research and research training in music and music education
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding
β οΈ Postponed from 4 March
Arts, Culture and Education
Children as investments: Middle-class parents' struggle for class reproduction or reconstruction.
HPS History Workshop
Varieties of tacit knowledge
Arts, Culture and Education
Interpersonal Dynamics in Learning Across the Lifespan
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The "Giants" of Ancient Peru: Secrets of the Moche Royal Court (AD 200-800)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The social epistemology of the International Panel on Climate Change
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Art, Empire, and Revolution: the Lives of Constance and Casimir Markievicz
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Low Carbon Road Freight Transport
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, 1954β56
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Anglo-German Victims of The Great War: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How autonomous are social scientific explanations?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen and his "Diary of a Man in Despair": a conservative rebel in Hitler's Germany
β οΈ This talk is open to the public and may be podcast
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Teaching Music to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding and Perspectives
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Not Just Old Bones: The Birth of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology in the UK
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does psychological knowledge presuppose self-knowledge? A Kantian perspective
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Islanded: the British Empire and Sri Lanka
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy
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?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Real change happens in general relativity, even in Hamiltonian form
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Aftermath of War: Iraq Ten Years On
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
History of Medicine Seminars
Mapping the medical marketplace: early modern Welsh practitioners and medical retail
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Globalization and Music Education
β οΈ Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Ambassadorial Housekeeping in Paris During 1762-1763
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Winchgenstein and functional explanation
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Best Seat in the House: viewing Greek history through its theatre
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Keeping values in sight:Reflection and evaluation tools from an arts organisationβs perspective
β οΈ All Welcome!
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Britain, Modernity and the Change of Historical Consciousness in Korea, 1960-2000
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Domain specificity in protein classification: a problem for monism
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Brains, Science, and Human Nature
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
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)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What pluralism could be and might do
HPS History Workshop
Common sense and phrenology
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Where is Chinaβs Urbanisation Heading?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Dysfunction and biological variation: a problem for SE accounts of functions
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Historicising Islamic Extremism in the Punjab
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful
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. 1900β13
HPS Philosophy Workshop
More models, more problems?
Arts, Culture and Education
'I was born in a catβs cave.' Working with authorship and imagination in early childhood outdoor learning
β οΈ All welcome! Please contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
In the Beginning (Almost) was University College: Cambridge's New Graduate Colleges in the 1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of double-counting evidence illustrated by climate science
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Before Gallipoli there was Homer β the Classics and the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
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, 1710β1788
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW
β οΈ Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
What is Legal Philosophy?
β οΈ This talk is open to the public
History of Medicine Seminars
Ordinary seamen, bodily knowledge and Royal Navy sex crimes trials, 1688β1783
Cabinet of Natural History
Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930β1945
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Joseph Rotblat: physics, the Bomb and some consequences
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objectivity in psychology β a Kantian perspective
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Bernstorff Reconsidered
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Lanford's theorem and the emergence of irreversibility
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Digital Affordances: some implications for the Humanities
β οΈ This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open
Cabinet of Natural History
Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Infertility β the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870β1930
HPS History Workshop
Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Imagining the Transnational Character of "1968" - Reassessing the Importance of Global Developments in Shaping Austrian and West German Protestors
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Aesthetics in science
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Merchants of Culture: the Making of Bestsellers
β οΈ This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public
History of Medicine Seminars
Group formations: surgeons and artists in Victorian group portraiture
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Seeing is believing: how a Century after its discovery, Bragg's Law allows us to peer into molecules that read the information in our genes
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Mind your Ps and Qs: a contrastive account of testimonial inference to the best explanation
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Owning up to the Past: The KMT's Role in the War Against Japan and the Impact on CCP Legitimacy
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Altruism and relatedness in microbial populations
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Markets and Merchants in early China
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Development of a Masculine Gender Identity during Adolescence
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A Humean alternative on what there is
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Not Only To See All, But Also To See From Anywhere': Space, Duration and the Omnivision of the Mobile Camera
Cabinet of Natural History
Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America
β οΈ 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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Polychromy? ... Itβs all Greek to me!
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The meaning of 'kilogram'
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Austerity, free trade, and the deficit: the mid 19th century origins of a British obsession
History of Medicine Seminars
Consensus, correspondence and the development of the 'second opinion' in Nuremberg's medical reformation, 1560β1598
Cambridge Philosophical Society
How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800β200 BC
Arts, Culture and Education
Engaging Educators in the Open Learning Revolution
β οΈ All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Can the US and China Build Trust and Cooperative Institutions?: The Case of Global Finance
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Catharine Cockburn on substantival space: a 'new' 18th-century solution
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Inventing Phoenicia? The Levantine Coast and Geographical Perception in the Ancient World
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Cabinet of Natural History
The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science
β οΈ Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Heredity under the microscope
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Science funding 2.0
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Stories from a Country Practice
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe
Cabinet of Natural History
Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin
Arts, Culture and Education
One-to-one pedagogy: exploring supervisory practices in music research training
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
Arts, Culture and Education
Engagement in different contexts: What enables or restricts the Artist Teacher?
β οΈ All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
HPS History Workshop
Studying Babylonia in Philadelphia: Assyriological practice and the University of Pennsylvania's museum, c.1900
Arts, Culture and Education
"Musical Kaleidoscope: Soundings of Enquiry"
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Between Pan-Americanism and Intervention: The Quest for a Pan-American Legal Order and the Foundations of US Hegemony in the Americas, 1898-1933
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Semantics of Peace in Early Modern England
Arts, Culture and Education
New Media Musicianship: Inspiring practices and implications for music and arts education
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come
HPS History Workshop
Conceptual change in history of science
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Is the Revisionist View of the Industrial Revolution up for Revision?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
"Filled with Dissenters?" Cambridgeshire religion in 1851
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The sciences of subjectivity
β οΈ Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Understanding Multiprocessors: Science, Craft, Engineering, or Mathematics?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Emergence in complexity science
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The 1690s: England's First Modern Economic Crisis?
Cabinet of Natural History
'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era
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
β οΈ Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
HPS History Workshop
From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs
β οΈ Please note change of speaker and topic
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Poetry of Anne Stevenson: An Introduction
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Politics of Austerity
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Across the Oceans: Emigration from Cumberland and Westmorland Before 1914
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kripke's Wittgenstein on meaning and rules
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Mesopotamia under Saddam: archaeology in Iraq 1969-1989
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
'World Needs New Tendencies in Poeting and Paintry': Representing Speed & Force in 1920s New York
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Good Companions and Fellow-boozers: Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Bunkers and other risk assessments: (im-)material calculations of military and natural disasters
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Ancient Divination Text: Useful for a Modern Scholar?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The paradoxes of quantum theory: solving vs. dissolving
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
β οΈ CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Textual transmission and hypertextuality in ancient Mesopotamia: the example of the divinatory series Ε‘umma Δlu and Ε‘umma izbu (second to first millennia BC)
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
No Russian Spring?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Emulating God's playfulness: Johannes Kepler's serious jokes
Cambridge Philosophical Society
"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"
β οΈ LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Christian and Manichaean Art in Medieval China (8th-14th C AD/CE)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Principles, pluralism and 'moral experts': reassessing the history of bioethics
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?
Cabinet of Natural History
Thomas Bewick, engraving the world
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870sβ1920s
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics
HPS Philosophy Workshop
You can get here from there: 'thick' communication, interpretation, and projective identification explained
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Notes on the Synthesis of Music
History of Medicine Seminars
Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England
Cabinet of Natural History
Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe
β οΈ Please note change of speaker and title
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Metaphors, similarities and inferences
HPS History Workshop
'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977β1980
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
How to Turn Your Idea into a Commercial Success
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The History of Racism
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century
β οΈ CANCELLED
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The narcissist and the coquette: contesting figures of sexual sociability
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Quantum chemical games of life
Cabinet of Natural History
Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to count organisms
Arts, Culture and Education
To do or not do? When βwhatβ and βhowβ no longer counts
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Sui generis explanations: scientific progress and scientific realism
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Song Remains the Same? Aesthetic, Psychological and Technical Aspects of the Audio βLoudness Warβ
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, 1900β06
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Children take the Lead. Which way to go? What does it mean? What if I donβt like it or understand?
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Patron, the Press, the People and the Progress: A Discussion on the Mediaβs Response to the Duchess of Cambridgeβs Choice of Charities
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Revolution, Bond Markets, and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Gilding the lily: understanding angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and development
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Kit Drummers and the Snowball Self: A socio-cultural-psychological perspective on identity and learning realisation
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Close Encounters with Pakistanβs Taliban
Arts, Culture and Education
DJs and MCs in the classroom: perhaps a glimpse of justice for disaffected inner-city youth?
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
From Fog to Smog: A Literary Journey
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Foreign policy, fear, and civil society
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications
β οΈ G I TAYLOR LECTURE
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Capturing complexity: An interdisciplinary review of movement capture technologies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
β οΈ Please contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend!
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science
β οΈ Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse
Arts, Culture and Education
Collaborating across genre boundaries - the creative process
β οΈ All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Good practices in rural landscapes: J. Entrican and the rediscovery of indigenous medicine in colonial Burma
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, 1858β65
HPS History Workshop
Proctor's Mars: new astronomy and new journalism in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Importance of Cheap and Reliable Optical Sources Capable of Short Pulse and High Power Generation
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses
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.1930β70
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The equivocation objection to priority monism
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Ambition and Decorum: Women's Entry into the Professions in Belle Γpoque France
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
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
What Is the Gender of Passion?: Negotiating Sexuality and Sex Roles in Tango
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Russia's Cold War
History of Medicine Seminars
Speaking for the patient as consumer in late 20th-century Britain
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory
Cabinet of Natural History
Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Singularist semirealism
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The ins and outs of mathematical explanation
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Environmental Impacts of London Buses
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Mozart and three Emperors
History of Medicine Seminars
'Nott a sadder creature in the world': parental grief in early modern England, 1580β1720
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The palace of cats and falcons: 21st-century fauna in a 20th-century skyscraper
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 mΓ©moires on electricity and phosphorescence
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Linnaeus and the Troglodyte: Natural History and Europe's Encounter with Human Diversity in the Eighteenth Century
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O'
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Traumatic Brain Injury: What can MRI tell us?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
History and the Financial Crisis
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900β45
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The event in the syndemic: state and subject formation in the two Manchurian pneumonic plague outbreaks (1910β11, 1920β21)
Arts, Culture and Education
'MUSICAL IDENTITIES IN TRANSITION: SOLO-PIANO STUDENTS' ACCOUNTS OF ENTERING THE ACADEMY'
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
Cabinet of Natural History
Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900
HPS History Workshop
Human genetics and the blood transfusion services: circulating records, samples and expertise, 1939β1945
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Negative Long-Term Impact of School Bullying: Synthesizing Data from Longitudinal Studies
History of Medicine Seminars
Silent partners: artists and the mannequin from function to fetish
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The diversity of extrasolar planetary systems: Clues to planet formation and migration
β οΈ LARMOR LECTURE
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
Arts, Culture and Education
From βteachingβ to βlearningβ: E-learning has changed the focus of music education. The current situation and the development of digital music education trends in mainland China
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
Arts, Culture and Education
Musicians without borders
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Translating βIn an Evil Hour You Were Valiantβ in the Song of Roland
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
βMy Desire is to be the Possessor of all the Best Books in this World of Struggleβ: Respectability and Literary Materialism in Colonial Ibadan
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Ports and Power: Excavation a Dynastic Capital of the Indian Ocean
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Wallace Stevens: Melodics of *Harmonium*
Cabinet of Natural History
The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum
HPS History Workshop
History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Faster than the blink of an eye: the jump of the insect
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
When βComoners were made slaves by the magistratesβ: Political Culture and Electioneering in 1620s Norwich
Rausing Lecture
Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment
β οΈ Sixteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Food of the Gods: the True Tale of Chocolate
HPS Philosophy Workshop
A framework for emergentism(s)
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 'MΓ©moires sur l'Γ©lectricitΓ©' (1733β7)
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Knowledge across Borders: The Early Communication of Evolutionism in China
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Victorian Tourists and Climbers in the Alps: Sinking the Sublime
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Lessons of the New Deal: did Obama learn the right ones?
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Roland and his Enemies: a look into the scholarly debate on La Chanson de Roland, 1830-1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Decision making under indeterminacy
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
South Asian histories of citizenship
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law
Cambridge Philosophical Society
SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
Arts, Culture and Education
Class Remobility- the Reconstruction of Capital Through Musical Fostering
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
Cabinet of Natural History
Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Raving in the classroom: DJing, MCing and the value of the 'dex' for low-achieving and disaffected boys
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Musical Learning as Social Reconstruction. Music and Origin in the Eyes of Immigrant Parents
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
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 1561β1566
Cabinet of Natural History
The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How much pluralism?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Who were the French revolutionaries?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS
Arts, Culture and Education
Creative Identity in Music Teaching and Learning
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
Arts, Culture and Education
Scripting social interaction: Improvisation, performance, and Western 'art' music
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend
HPS History Workshop
To graze and virtue: Anders Gabriel Duhre as a virtuous maker of useful knowledge in early 18th-century Sweden
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Death in Florence: the impact of plague in early modern Italy
History of Medicine Seminars
'Patient zero' and the early years of the North American AIDS epidemic
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
How to write the history of the Persian Empire
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920sβ1960s
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS
β οΈ Co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees.
Cabinet of Natural History
The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
1919 and All That: The Treaty of Versailles and "Appeasement" at the Paris Peace Conference
History of Medicine Seminars
Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared
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
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine
β οΈ Please note change of time and venue
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
New Research on Medieval Sino-African Relationships.
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Fiction as History
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800
Cambridge Philosophical Society
FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATION
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Images in medicine, medicine in images
Cabinet of Natural History
The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems
Arts, Culture and Education
Exploring young people's artistic worlds
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Mummies of Puruchuco: Archaeology of an Inka Period Cemetery in Lima, Peru.
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, 1911β1937
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Mapping the Jews of Byzantium
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Reactions to Neo-Nazi violence in Russia
History of Medicine Seminars
'A cold-blooded business'? Making the modern blood donor in wartime London
Cambridge Philosophical Society
THE ANTIBODY REVOLUTION; FROM SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS TO COMPANIES AND MEDICINES
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - CLONING, NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND PROSPECTS FOR CELL REPLACEMENT
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
How Big is Infinity?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Nature and the space of reasons
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Why is the Enlightenment so difficult to define?
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.1880β1920
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Colonial Rule in Africa: European Rivalry or a Common European Project?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Comparisons for the anthropologist: when organ and tissue donations are matters of concern
History of Medicine Seminars
Catholic activists, medical authority and the limiting of peasant choice in rural Brittany, 1650β1750
Cambridge Philosophical Society
TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURES
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
The vernacular fortunes of the Pseudo-Galenic Liber tertius in Anglo-Saxon England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Quarrying for Rome: Life in the Eastern Desert of Roman Egypt.
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Organisms, autonomy and division of labour
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Views of War, 1914 and 1939
History of Medicine Seminars
The 'miracle of childbirth': the portrayal of parturient women in medieval miracle narratives
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, 1650β1720
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Real Men in the Second Century: Establishing a Christian Identity
History of Medicine Seminars
Diseased on an Indian Ocean island: medicine, statishness and colonialism
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
β οΈ Note venue change
Cabinet of Natural History
Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration
Arts, Culture and Education
Children as Cultural Creators - An Australian Perspective
β οΈ CONTACT: Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.
Medieval Medicine Discussion Group
Leprosy, gender and punishment in thirteenth-century Rouen
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Darwinism and Environmentalism
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Louisa Catherine Adams: Travel, Narrative, and Gender
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
β οΈ Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Ten Corrupt Practices at the Longjiang Shipyard: Management Lessons in 16th Century China
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Jesuits and Eunuchs in Late Ming China
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Wall-E or Terminator? The past, present and future of Machine Learning
β οΈ Please note unusual venue
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Spies and informants in Elizabethan London
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Quest for Reality
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Social Mobility in Modern Britain: Myths and Realities
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Sucking the Blood of Society: The Origins and Evolution of the Byronic Figure
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Cultural politics of electioneering
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Justice and automated match officiating
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Mexican Chocolate and Chinese Cups: Trade and Artisanal Knowledge in the Early Modern World
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Illicit printing in the English Revolution, 1643-46
Arts, Culture and Education
Mobile Learning, Creativity and Schools - a New Zealand perspective
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion
Arts, Culture and Education
'Title caseβ The Use of 'Tools' for Nurturing and Assessing Creativity
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Title to be confirmed
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What should we do about the diabetes epidemic? Insights from epidemiology
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
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Rethinking the Tropics: a Brazilian contribution to the debate
Cabinet of Natural History
William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm
Arts, Culture and Education
Music and Creativity III: Composing in the age of diversity
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Uses of Memory in the Early Middle Ages
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanisms
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
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Title to be confirmed
Arts, Culture and Education
Music and Creativity II: Elaborate displays
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Dynamics of Avalanches
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 β the making of blank spaces
Cabinet of Natural History
Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology
Arts, Culture and Education
Identity, aspirations and motivation in musicians
β οΈ Admission: free but booking required To book email: c4o@lso.co.uk
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine
Arts, Culture and Education
The curse of creativity: Applied music research in CIRCLE
β οΈ Please contact Pam Burnard if planning to attend pab61@cam.ac.uk
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Causation and exceptions
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of Evolution
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
All CRASSH events
Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture
HPS History Workshop
Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s QuΓ©bec
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The geopolitics of slavery in North America and Africa, 1850-1890
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication
β οΈ An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918β1948
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemology of memory
Arts, Culture and Education
Creativity: So, what is it?
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if planning to attend
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Getting electrons to talk to one another
HPS History Workshop
The contested banana tree: public debates about science in eighteenth-century Central America
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Ruskin and the Idea of a Museum
History of Medicine Seminars
Practitioners, products and promotion: the medical trade catalogue and professional ethics in Britain, 1880β1914
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Tracing human ancestry using DNA
Cabinet of Natural History
Lyell's plots
Arts, Culture and Education
Creativity and English: Exploring possibilities
β οΈ To secure a place email c.l.henderson@open.ac.uk
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
What is a thick concept?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Around the World in 1209, Cambridge's Anniversary Year
History of Medicine Seminars
Medical knowledge and enlightened war: British and French military medicine in the eighteenth century
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
Arts, Culture and Education
How does one teach creativity?
β οΈ Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if planning to attend
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Harvesting DNA: genetics, archaeology and agriculture.
HPS History Workshop
Special session in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Triumph of Music
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Hearing loss and hearing aids
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environment
HPS Philosophy Workshop
The epistemic principle of alternative possibilities
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Silver tokens of the Chinese Salt Tax on the Bed of the Java Sea
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Reflections on "Reflections on Cambridge"
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Melancholy, Sex, and Bloodsuckers: A History of Lord Byron's
HPS History Workshop
The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmology
Arts, Culture and Education
Empathetic Creativity: The Product of Empathetic Attunement
β οΈ Please contact Pam Burnard, if planning to attend pab61@cam.ac.uk
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Philippine Studies in St. Petersburg
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Jerusalem and the Cotswolds: the British discovery of the Holy City
History of Medicine Seminars
Mechanizing war and medicine: rationalized fracture care in World War I
Cabinet of Natural History
'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930
All CRASSH events
JosΓ© Scheinkman, 'Speculation and Bubbles'
HPS History Workshop
The meaning of altruism in interwar London
Wolfson Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series
Russia and Europe: an insoluble problem?
β οΈ Participants can bring their lunches to the talk
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Russia and Europe: an insoluble problem?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Russia and Europe: An Insoluble Problem?
HPS History Workshop
Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration
Cabinet of Natural History
Fungi in history
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Serbia and the Outbreak of War in 1914
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society
β οΈ Darwin 2009 Lecture
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Collaboration, Resistance and Ambiguity during the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Within the Secret State: A Disturbing Study of the Use and Misuse of Power
β οΈ Chair: Dr Felicia Yap
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty
β οΈ Valedictory Lecture
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Title to be confirmed
Rausing Lecture
Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world
β οΈ 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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The naturalisation of reason in the seventeenth century: origins and consequences
β οΈ Chair: Dr David Adams
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Economic Downturn and the Carbon Economy
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew
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
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
"Man is either going to rediscover the earth or is going to leave it": Charles Olson and the Biocentric Imagination.
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?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The European Peace Settlement, 1919: so what was wrong with the Treaty of Versailles?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval England
β οΈ Chair: Dr Max Lieberman
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 β 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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Tiger and the Unicorn: investigating the significance of images on Indus seals
Cabinet of Natural History
Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children
CRASSH events
Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Stateless Peoples in Mountainous Southeast Asia
β οΈ NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
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?
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Use of Madness: On Darwinism and Psychiatry
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Curious β Looking at Microscopy through Craft and Technology
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Time flies: Exploring Visual Links between Hummingbird Iconography and the Aztec Calendar
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
"How to Write the History of the Mediterranean"
β οΈ Chair: Dr Max Lieberman
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Machines that see
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Orange Revolution in Ukraine: Democracy or Velvet Restoration?
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
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Radio 4: A Very British History
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'Missing Links: the Church of England and the Rhineland Palatinate 1565-1642'
β οΈ Chair: Dr David Adams
Early Science and Medicine
The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13thβ14th centuries)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceiling
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: A Case Study on Science and Cross-Disciplinarity in the Context of Environmentally-Driven Innovation in 19th Century Architecture
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
"La Semaine Sanglante, 1871: a revision"
β οΈ Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna
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' β the sovereign self in Otto Weininger
β οΈ Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Defending shallow essentialism
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
Printed Circuits: Ink-Jet Printing and its Applications in Organic Electronics
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
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Cultures of Climate Change: Max Boykoff (ECI, Oxford)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?
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
β οΈ 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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
From Time to Time: Problems in the Conversion of Calendars, Especially for the History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Mars Globes and the Canal Controversy
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
"History, Truth and Memory: Reflections on the Irving/Lipstadt Libel Trial (Jan-Apr 2000)."
β οΈ Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
How Long is a Foot? The Size of the Ships on China's 15th-Century Maritime Expeditions
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Human Art and Natural Beauty in eighteenth-century Microscopy
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Rousseau's JULIE: The Unread Best-Seller of the Eighteenth Century
β οΈ Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Cultures of Climate Change: Reading Group
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - How metals can fall apart: Vision, observation and G I Taylor
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'
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells
β οΈ REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk
CRASSH events
Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century
β οΈ Closing date for registration is 5 December 2008. Fees range from Β£20 - Β£60. See here: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmuh/intro.cgi
CRASSH events
Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo
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
β οΈ 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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Rousseau's Second Discourse: Between Stoicism and Epicureanism
β οΈ Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
Early Science and Medicine
Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary
The Cultures of Climate Change
Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others
Cabinet of Natural History
A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation
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
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The big picture - mining millions of images
Scientific Images Discussion Group
Methodology and the visual image
β οΈ 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
β οΈ Please note the different time
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
'Der neue Trend β no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945β1975
The Cultures of Climate Change
Listening in Place
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals
Cabinet of Natural History
New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
From Qing China to Carmen's Tobacco Factory: Chinese Export Embroideries
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing
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
The Cultures of Climate Change
Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy
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)
Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
The Eternal Taj Mahal: Prehistory and Development
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Elizabethan England: a monarchical republic
β οΈ Chair: Dr Felicia Yap
Early Science and Medicine
Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales
Cabinet of Natural History
The evolution of wonder
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A Roman engineerβs 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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
China and the world, 1750-2000
β οΈ Chair: Dr Felicia Yap
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
The Ten Perfections in Theravada Buddhism
β οΈ Chair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The new riddle of causation
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Tracing the cunning of unreason
β οΈ Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Mandeville and the problem of political hypocrisy
β οΈ Chair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo
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
β οΈ 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
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Disjointed Temporality of Climate Change
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
β οΈ Please note change of day
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Ecological Thought
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
β οΈ Please note early start
HPS History Workshop
Thomas Digges' astronomy
The Cultures of Climate Change
Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Dynastic roulette and state formation in early modern Europe
β οΈ Chair: Dr David Adams
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Reading Roman history in the early middle ages
β οΈ Chair: Dr Max Lieberman
Cambridge Philosophical Society
RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?
β οΈ NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost
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-Aubinsβ 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 Talbotβs interest in the antique β and what it has to do with photography
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Unpredictability and chance in science and technology
β οΈ NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME
The Cultures of Climate Change
"Serious Things": On Literature and Environmentalism
The Cultures of Climate Change
Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development
Cabinet of Natural History
Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century
HPS History Workshop
Zhang Jingsheng and the βsexual fieldβ in 1920s China
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Do you have anything to fear from being on the DNA database if you are innocent? The forensic use of bioinformation
β οΈ Chair: Dr Gagan Sood
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
β οΈ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Contracting the philosopherβs 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
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities
β οΈ NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME
The Cultures of Climate Change
Imaging the Arctic
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museumβs 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
βWhat is meant by this system?β 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 βmeritocracy thesisβ from The Bell Curve
The Cultures of Climate Change
Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
General Discussion Session
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Biological Engineering of Plant Systems
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Computational Design in Synthetic Biology
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
The iGEM competition: Building with biology
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)
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
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut
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
The Cultures of Climate Change
ICT and Climate Change
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
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
TBC
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)
β οΈ NOTE: New start time and New venue
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?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The physics of the Earth's interior
β οΈ HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox
The Cultures of Climate Change
What is a Climate Refugee?
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
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
The Global Conservation Crisis
β οΈ offered in collaboration with the Gates Cambridge Trusts' Distinguished Lecture Series
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
The Cultures of Climate Change
Klaatu barada nikto - Climate Change and other acts of Imagination
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
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies
β οΈ NOTE: New start time and New venue
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
Cabinet of Natural History
'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS β WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?
β οΈ Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity
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
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Oligarchs or custodians? Large-scale landholding in late Victorian and Edwardian England
β οΈ Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros
Rausing Lecture
Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com
β οΈ 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
βNo! No! Not the comfy chair!β The power of the experimental situation in social psychology
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Title to be confirmed
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'
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, 1848β1945
HPS History Workshop
Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland
Early Science and Medicine
βMurderous pity?β 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
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Kierkegaard & Copenhagen: From Genius in a Market-Town or Philosopher-FlΓ’neur
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them
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 particularitΓ©s la plus considerable': Fontenelle's Γ©loges
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
βThe dog daysβ: rabies in England, 1830β1860
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
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Title to be confirmed
Early Science and Medicine
Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?
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
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Alternative spatialities for a global city
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids
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, 1947β53
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience
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
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system
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)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle
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
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The life habits of the trilobites
Cabinet of Natural History
Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950
β οΈ 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
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture
β οΈ Note unusual time and venue
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
β οΈ 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"
β οΈ 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
β οΈ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Inositol: evolution's favourite molecule?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Evolution of the Earth
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Free Will Theorem
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Dynamic Sun
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