Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site


2023-05-04 15:30: Expertise as perspectives in dialogue (Michael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham))

2024-10-31 15:30: Models of information in structural biology (Agnes Bolinska (University of South Carolina))

2024-11-07 15:30: A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction (Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow))

2024-11-14 15:30: What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses (Michael Korey (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Dresden State Art Collections))

2024-11-21 15:30: The many births of the test-tube baby: proof and publicity in claims to a breakthrough (Nick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-01-30 15:30: Pulling away from science, epistemic self-reliance, and the tale of Thabo Mbeki (Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool))

2025-02-06 15:30: Recalculating equality: data, race and environmental health models in 19th-century West Africa (Matthew Eddy (Durham University))

2025-02-13 15:30: Science as communication (Jim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-02-20 15:30: On conceptual engineering in psychiatry: is it time to eliminate or reappropriate the category of psychiatric disorder? (Miriam Solomon (Temple University))

2025-02-27 15:30: Where is Amazonia on display (today)? A global approach to understanding Amazonian collections (Neil Safier (Brown University))

2025-03-06 15:30: Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery (Keith Wailoo (Princeton University))

2025-05-01 15:30: Disinformation, denial, and the assault on truth (Lee McIntyre (Boston University))

2025-05-08 15:30: Doing your own patient activist research (Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool))

2025-05-15 15:30: The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities (Felipe Romero (University of Groningen))

2025-05-22 16:00: Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction? (Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester))

2025-05-29 15:30: Mobilizing medicine (Eram Alam (Harvard University))

2025-10-30 15:30: The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire – book launch event (Various speakers)

2025-11-06 15:30: When is measurement good? Evidence, validity, and values (Eran Tal (McGill University))

2025-11-13 15:30: Reservoirs of venereal diseases: women and medico-moral discourses in Idi Amin's Uganda (Doreen Kembabazi (Adyeeri) (University of Warwick))

2025-11-20 15:30: Institutionalizing values and science: the strengths of standardization in troubled times (Kevin C. Elliott (Michigan State University))

2025-11-27 15:30: Navigating origin stories: the mariner's compass as a narrative instrument (Paola Bertucci (Yale University))

2026-02-05 15:30: The secret causes of the Castle Bravo accident (Alex Wellerstein (Stevens Institute of Technology))

2026-02-12 15:30: Permission to know (Jessie Munton (Faculty of Philosophy))

2026-02-19 15:30: Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940–70s) (Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia University))

2026-02-26 15:30: AI, automation, and the problem of error in science (Stephan Guttinger (University of Exeter))

2026-03-05 15:30: So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science (Eric Winsberg (University of Cambridge & University of South Florida))

2026-03-12 15:30: Sex as a process (Paul E. Griffiths (University of Sydney & Macquarie University))