Philosophy and History of Science


2006-05-15 13:00: The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century (Benjamin Wardhaugh,  University of Oxford)

2006-05-22 13:00: Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens" (Anna Mrker,  Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

2006-05-29 13:00: Empire and nature in New Zealand: theologies of nature and natural theologies, 1830-1920 (based on joint research with John Stenhouse) (James Beattie, Otago University)

2006-06-05 13:00: Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation (William Adams, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-09 13:00: The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793) (Simon Chaplin (Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons))

2006-10-09 16:30: Reconsidering Relativistic Causality (Jeremy Butterfield)

2006-10-10 17:00: Sterility and the disordered household in Early Modern England and France (Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan))

2006-10-11 13:00: Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge (Melanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-10-16 13:00: Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India (Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College))

2006-10-16 16:30: Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College Cambridge)

2006-10-17 17:00: Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual (Roger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick))

2006-10-18 13:00: Not all computations are effective methods (Mark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-10-23 16:30: Machian Dynamics: The End of Time? (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-10-24 17:00: 'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction (Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College, London))

2006-10-25 13:00: Maternal or fetal diagnostics? Practices of ultrasound imaging in Norway, 1970-1995 (Lise Kvande (Norwegian University of Science and Technology))

2006-10-25 17:00: Psychiatry and colonial politics: colonial psychiatry and indigenous physicians in the former Dutch East Indies (Hans Pols (University of Sydney))

2006-10-30 12:30: Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950 (Jasper Heinzen (Darwin College))

2006-10-30 16:30: MACHIAN DYNAMICS: THE END OF TIME? PART TWO (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-10-31 17:00: The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment (David Gentilcore (University of Leicester))

2006-11-01 13:00: Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work (Joab Rosenberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-01 17:00: Angina pectoris and the Arnolds: emotions and the framing of heart disease in medical history (Fay Bound Alberti (University of Lancaster))

2006-11-06 16:30: Stochastic Einstein Locality : Part Two (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-11-07 17:00: From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals (Robert Kirk (University of Manchester))

2006-11-08 13:00: Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation (Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-13 13:00: More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith (Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia))

2006-11-13 16:30: Against Pointillisme about Geometry and about Mechanics (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-11-14 17:00: Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference (Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics))

2006-11-15 13:00: Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement (Paul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-15 17:00: Shell shock to PTSD: a step change in the conceptualisation of psychological responses to traumatic events (Edgar Jones (King’s College London))

2006-11-16 14:00: Introduction and Welcome (Professor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge))

2006-11-16 14:15: Understanding Biology from the Atomistic Scale (Professor Mike Payne, Cavendish Laboratory)

2006-11-16 14:45: Soft Matter Physics of Cells (Professor Athene Donald (Department of Physics, Cambridge))

2006-11-16 15:15: Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity (Professor Ray Goldstein (DAMTP, Cambridge))

2006-11-16 16:15: Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine? (Professor Josef Käs (Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig))

2006-11-16 16:45: How nature "designs" elastic polymers (Dr Jane Clarke, Department of Chemistry)

2006-11-16 17:15: Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Heart (Professor Scott Fraser (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena))

2006-11-17 09:00: Visualisation and Modelling of Plant Morphogenesis (Dr Jim Haseloff (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge))

2006-11-17 09:30: Watching and modelling limb development (Dr James Sharpe (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona))

2006-11-17 10:00: Dissecting a protein-protein interaction in living cells (Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, MRC Hutchison Laboratory)

2006-11-17 11:00: Studying Single Molecules on living cells (Dr David Klenerman (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge))

2006-11-17 11:30: Multidimensional fluorescence imaging in living cells (Dr Clemens Kaminski (Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge))

2006-11-17 12:00: Reaction diffusion and collective behavior in the self-organisation of the mitotic spindle (Professor Eric Karsenti (EMBL, Heidelberg))

2006-11-17 14:15: Imaging embryonic morphogenesis (Dr Richard Adams (Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience))

2006-11-17 14:45: Kinetics of Morphogen Gradient Formation (Dr Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan (Cell Biology, Geneva, Switzerland))

2006-11-17 15:15: Evolving mechanisms of Pattern Generation: Segmentation in Animals (Professor Michael Akam (Laboratory for Development and Evolution, Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2006-11-17 16:15: Physical principles of sensory transduction (Dr Tom Duke, Department of Physics, Cambridge)

2006-11-17 16:45: The brain as a statistical machine (Professor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge))

2006-11-17 17:15: Closing Remarks (Professor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge))

2006-11-20 13:00: Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century (Niall O'Flaherty)

2006-11-20 16:30: Is Teleportation a (quantum) mystery? (Berry Groisman, CQC, Cambridge)

2006-11-21 17:00: 'Desperate and incurable': defining breast cancer in England c.1550-1800 (Marjo Kaartinen (University of Turku))

2006-11-22 13:00: Electrons in the family (Jaume Navarro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-23 16:30: Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain (Hilary Marland (University of Warwick))

2006-11-27 13:00: Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-28 17:00: The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan (Aya Homei (University of Manchester))

2006-11-29 13:00: Relative meaning (Joe Sandham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-29 17:00: Four erotic problems: elements of a history of arts of love (Michel Feher (École Normale Supérieure, Paris))

2007-01-22 13:00: Geological deluge and snowball Earth (Martin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-01-22 16:30: On classical limits of quantum theory (J Butterfield)

2007-01-23 17:00: Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris (Emma Spary (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL))

2007-01-24 13:00: Samuel Lilley and the Commission for the History of the Social Relations of Science, 1947–53 (Vidar Enebakk (University of Oslo, Norway))

2007-01-29 13:00: Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world (Laurence Totelin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-01-30 17:00: Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies (Andreas Mayer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-01-31 13:00: The difference between cause and condition (Alex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-01-31 17:00: The mismeasure of stickman: testing intelligence by drawings (Barbara Wittmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2007-02-05 13:00: Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing (Peter Bowler (Queen's University Belfast))

2007-02-05 16:30: The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity (Dr Edward Anderson, Peterhouse and DAMTP)

2007-02-06 17:00: Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States (Jean-Paul Gaudillière (CERMES, Paris))

2007-02-07 13:00: The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge (Lydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-12 13:00: Alchemy and natural history (Jenny Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-12 16:30: The nature of time in a closed system (Dr Jonathan Oppenheim (DAMTP))

2007-02-13 17:00: Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt (Ayesha Mukherjee (Trinity College))

2007-02-14 13:00: The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism (Torben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-14 17:00: On the metaphysics of listening and lying in psychoanalysis (Bibi Straatman (University of Nijmegen))

2007-02-19 13:00: "Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol" (Joe Cain (University College London))

2007-02-19 16:30: Introduction to Algebraic Quantum Statistical Mechanics (J Butterfield (Cambridge))

2007-02-20 17:00: ‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860 (Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester))

2007-02-21 13:00: 'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges (Lisa Mullins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-26 13:00: The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s (Peter Edwards (Roehampton University))

2007-02-26 16:30: Realism, the Interpretation of Quantum Theory, and Idealism (Dt Matthew Donald (Cambridge))

2007-02-27 17:00: The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives (Sigrid Weigel (Centre for Literature Research, Berlin))

2007-02-28 13:00: Practices, rules and motivation (Caroline Baumann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-28 17:00: How we became our brains: a historical perspective (Fernando Vidal (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2007-03-05 13:00: Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840 (Leucha Veneer (University of Leeds))

2007-03-06 17:00: ‘Murderous pity?’ Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society (Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg))

2007-03-06 19:30: Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and Heidegger (Dr Melissa Lane, Senior Lecturer in History)

2007-03-07 13:00: Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland (Francis Lucian Reid (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-03-08 19:30: Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life? (Dr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department)

2007-03-09 17:00: Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables? (Professor Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy)

2007-03-12 13:00: "Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording" (Jenny Beckman (University of Uppsala, Stockholm))

2007-03-13 17:00: Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine (Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo))

2007-03-13 17:00: What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questions (Dr Nikolaus Bacht, Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music)

2007-03-14 13:00: Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge? (Yoon Choi (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-03-14 17:00: ‘No! No! Not the comfy chair!’ The power of the experimental situation in social psychology (Alison Winter (University of Chicago))

2007-03-14 17:00: Student Papers and Grand Discussion (Gaurav Jaggi, Colin Higgins, Kevin Channon - Discussion)

2007-04-19 14:00: Provisional knowledge (Paul Teller (University of California at Davis))

2007-04-30 13:00: Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900 (Nick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-05-02 13:00: A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler (Patrick Boner (Kommission zur Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften))

2007-05-09 13:00: Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth (Stefan Brenner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-05-09 17:00: Children in hospital: attachment theory and psychoanalytic research in post-war Britain (Michal Shapira (Rutgers University))

2007-05-11 12:00: Understanding counterfactuals (Gunnar Björnsson (Göteborg University))

2007-05-14 13:00: 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 (Susanne Pickert (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2007-05-16 13:00: The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger' (Natalie Kaoukji (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-05-23 13:00: Williamson on knowledge as the most general factive mental state (Daniel Greco (Faculty of Philosophy))

2007-05-23 17:00: 'We might as well call it stuff!': A short history of information as a psychological concept (Alan Collins (Lancaster University))

2007-05-30 13:00: Monstrous deliveries: fetal anomalies and the making of facts in nineteenth-century obstetrics (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-06-06 13:00: Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health (Elselijn Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-06-13 13:00: Refashioning women: dress, science and the female body in late nineteenth-century Britain (Margaret Olszewski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-06-20 13:00: Supposing this and that (Florian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy))

2007-06-26 10:15: The effect of substrate mechanics on cell behaviour (Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory)

2007-06-26 10:45: Mechanical coupling between engineered and biological material systems (Professor Krystyn Van Vliet, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT)

2007-06-26 11:15: Probing molecular interactions in mineralised tissues (Dr Melinda Duer, Department of Chemistry)

2007-06-26 12:05: Designing artificial materials to stimulate nerve cell regrowth (Dr Stephanie Lacour, Dept.of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

2007-06-26 12:35: Cell-material interactions in biomimetic bone-like composites (Dr Michelle Oyen, Dept. of Engineering)

2007-06-26 14:10: Cell-matrix interactions in neural development and repair (Prof. Charles ffrench-Constant, Dept. of Pathology)

2007-06-26 14:40: Regulation of epidermal homeostasis by extracellular stimuli (Dr Kim Jensen, Welcome Trust Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge)

2007-06-26 15:10: Anoikis and cell signalling in response to matrix attachment (Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute)

2007-06-26 16:00: Novel electron microscopy approaches to probe cell-substrate interactions (Prof. Athene Donald, Cavendish Laboratory)

2007-06-26 16:30: Osteoclasts and bone formation at material surfaces (Dr Roger Brooks, Dept. of Surgery)

2007-10-05 10:30: The Functional Structures of Biological Surfaces (Speaker to be confirmed)

2007-10-08 13:00: 'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England (Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford))

2007-10-09 17:00: Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom (Alec Ryrie (Durham University))

2007-10-15 13:00: Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain (Carlos López Beltrán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México))

2007-10-15 15:00: The material realisation and conceptual interpretation of observational processes (Hans Radder (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam))

2007-10-16 17:00: How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938 (Bonnie Evans (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-10-17 13:00: Is teleportation a (quantum) mystery? (Berry Groisman (DAMPT, Cambridge))

2007-10-17 17:00: Margaret Mead amongst the natives of Great Britain (Peter Mandler (Faculty of History))

2007-10-23 17:00: Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice (Evelleen Richards (University of Sydney))

2007-10-29 13:00: 'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America (Helen Cowie (University of Warwick))

2007-10-30 17:00: Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section (Adrian Wilson (University of Leeds))

2007-10-31 13:00: The special kind of unpredictability of chaotic systems (Charlotte Werndl (Faculty of Philosophy))

2007-10-31 17:00: 1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London (John Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-11-05 13:00: Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum (Sam Alberti (Manchester Museum))

2007-11-06 17:00: Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox (Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL))

2007-11-12 13:00: 'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s (Lawrence Dritsas (University of Edinburgh))

2007-11-13 17:00: Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate (Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University))

2007-11-14 13:00: Psychological identification and numerical identity: the unlikely connection (Louise Braddock (Girton College))

2007-11-14 17:00: The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori (Katherine Angel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-11-15 14:30: Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype (Andrew Fraser, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-15 15:00: Evidence for the influence of nuclear architecture in shaping the organisation of genes in eukaryotic chromosomes (Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-15 15:30: Shift happens: A systems-level analysis of the gap gene network in Drosophila (Johannes Jaeger Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-15 16:30: Creation and destruction of biological polymer networks (Dyche Mullins Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of San Francisco (USA))

2007-11-15 17:00: Spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system: form and function (Stephen Eglen. DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-15 17:30: Physics and the designs of brains (Simon Laughlin Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-16 09:00: Mesoscopic events in living cells: insights from bacterial chemotaxis (Dennis Bray Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-16 09:30: Morphogen transport and gradient formation (Frank Jülicher Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany))

2007-11-16 10:00: To see the light - living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina (Jochen Guck Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-16 11:00: Biomechanics of epithelial sheet movements (in Drosophila) (Nicole Gorfinkiel, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-16 11:30: Coupling cell cycle morphogenesis and mitotic spindle orientation to regulate tissue morphogenesis (Yohanns Bellaiche Curie Institute, Paris (France))

2007-11-16 12:00: Where mechanics and biochemistry meet: probing the dynamics of cell polarization and morphogenesis (Ed Munro Center for Cells Dynamics, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, Seattle (USA))

2007-11-16 14:30: Structure and dynamics of the cell membrane and cytoskeleton (Pietro Cicuta Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-16 15:00: The poroelastic properties of cytoplasm: theory and experiments (Guillaume Charras UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology, London (UK))

2007-11-16 15:30:  No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm (Brad Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-16 16:30: Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13 (Ferdia Gallagher Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Cambridge (UK))

2007-11-16 17:00: From words to literature in structural proteomics (Wolfgang Baumeister Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried (Germany))

2007-11-19 13:00: The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology (David Allan Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-11-20 17:00: Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster (Lindsey Fitzharris (University of Oxford))

2007-11-26 13:00: Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages (Kathleen Walker-Meikle (University College London))

2007-11-27 17:00: The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition (Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester))

2007-11-29 16:30: Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline? (Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge))

2008-01-15 17:00: Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early Modern France (Cathy McClive (Durham University))

2008-01-21 13:00: ‘What is meant by this system?’ Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature (Nicola Gauld (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge))

2008-01-23 13:00: Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast (Sophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-01-28 13:00: Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museum’s cranial collection, 1869-1900 (Elise Juzda (Faculty of History))

2008-01-29 17:00: Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story (Lynn Morgan (Mount Holyoke College))

2008-01-30 13:00: The primacy of secondary qualities (Mike Collins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-01-30 17:00: 'Out of the shadows': Alexander Mitscherlich and psychoanalysis in Germany after 1945 (Martin Dehli)

2008-02-04 13:00: Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall (Simon Naylor (University of Exeter))

2008-02-05 17:00: Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world (Natacha Massar (Free University of Brussels))

2008-02-06 13:00: Political radicalism and scientific discovery: the Cambridge Biotheoretical Gathering, 1932-1937 (Robin Scheffler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-02-11 13:00: Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge (Adelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group))

2008-02-12 17:00: Biotrash: medical garbage in India (Sarah Hodges (University of Warwick))

2008-02-13 13:00: Subjective probability and action guidance (Martin Peterson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-02-13 17:00: Colonising and de-colonising psychoanalysis in the 1950s: Masud Khan amongst the British (Julia Borossa (Middlesex University))

2008-02-18 13:00: Distancing animals in medieval chronicles (Brigitte Resl (University of Liverpool))

2008-02-19 17:00: Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages (William MacLehose (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine))

2008-02-20 13:00: Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China (Leon Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-02-25 13:00: Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project (Iris Montero Sobrevilla (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-02-26 17:00: Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders (Sasha Handley (University of Manchester))

2008-02-27 13:00: Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective (Sasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-03-03 13:00: Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life (Gail Davies (University College London))

2008-03-04 17:00: Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture (Amanda Rees (University of York))

2008-03-05 13:00: Preserving the forgotten: Fox Talbot’s interest in the antique – and what it has to do with photography (Mirjam Brusius (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-03-10 13:00: Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London (Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-03-12 13:00: Mind-dependence and realism about the mind (Mark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-03-12 17:00: Exploring the human psyche: psychology and British psychic detective fiction at the turn of the 20th century (Alexandra Lembert (University of Leipzig))

2008-03-19 17:00: Revolution in mind: making the psychoanalytic field, 1870-1945 (George Makari (Weill Medical College of Cornell University))

2008-04-28 13:00: Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates (Neil Rennie (University College London))

2008-04-30 13:00: Thomas Digges' astronomy (Katie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-05-07 13:00: A social construction of health (Elly Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-05-12 13:00: Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections (Stéphane Schmitt (Université Paris Diderot))

2008-05-14 17:00: Scottish psychotherapy: communion, community and communication (Gavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University))

2008-05-15 13:00: Finding favour in the heavens and earth: Georg Stadius, Johannes Kepler and the composition of astrological calendars in early modern Graz (Patrick Boner (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften))

2008-05-19 13:00: Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris (Ralph Kingston (Auburn University))

2008-05-21 13:00: Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis (Paul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-05-26 13:00: Triangulations: poetry, plants and politics in the late eighteenth century (Patricia Fara (Clare College and HPS))

2008-05-28 13:00: The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge (Lydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-06-02 13:00: Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand (Michael Stevens (University of Otago))

2008-06-04 13:00: Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms (Sasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-06-11 13:00: 'In shape vnparfett that nature hathe not drest': vision, experience and incongruous anatomies in early modern England (Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford))

2008-07-09 10:00: The Centre for Trophoblast Research official launch (see abstract for details)

2008-10-13 13:00: The evolution of wonder (Paul White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-14 17:00: Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy (Samuel Cohn (University of Glasgow))

2008-10-15 13:00: Puns and pea-shooters: play, words, and plays on words in John Ayrton Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest' (1827) (Melanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-20 13:00: Orford Ness: landscape of war and science (Sophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-21 17:00: The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain (Elizabeth Toon (University of Manchester))

2008-10-22 13:00: Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws (Billy Wheeler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-23 09:30: Dissecting the dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks (Dr. Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Structural Studies))

2008-10-23 09:55: Causal network structure identification in nonlinear dynamical systems (Professor Zoubin Ghahramani (Department of Engineering))

2008-10-23 10:20: Combining molecular and physiological data from complex psychiatric disorders (Dr. Pietro Lio / Emanuel Schwarz (Computer Laboratory / Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology))

2008-10-23 11:15: Evolution of biological complexity and multicellular phototaxis (Prof Ray Goldstein (DAMTP))

2008-10-23 11:40: Transcriptional networks controlling blood stem cells (Dr. Bertie Gottgens (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research))

2008-10-23 12:05: Inference for stochastic models (Dr Lorenz Wernisch ( MRC Biostatistics Unit))

2008-10-23 12:30: How molecules constrain networks (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-23 14:00: Complexities and uncertainties of neuronal network analyses (Dr. David Parker (Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience))

2008-10-23 14:25: Spontaneous neural activity in the developing nervous system. (Dr. Stephen Eglen (DAMTP))

2008-10-23 14:50: Learning and memory in neural networks: statistically optimal computations (Dr Mate Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering))

2008-10-23 15:40: Small, network models of effective connectivity in the human brain: evidence from fMRI and MEG (Dr. Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge))

2008-10-23 16:05: Cost-efficiency of complex human brain networks (Prof Ed Bullmore (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry))

2008-10-23 16:30: Towards a cartography of complex biological systems (Professor Luis Amaral (Northwestern University, USA))

2008-10-28 17:00: Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys (Suzanne Anker (School of Visual Arts, New York))

2008-10-29 13:00: 'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy (Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-30 16:30: Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri (Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute))

2008-11-03 13:00: The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes (Alexander Etkind (Department of Slavonic Studies))

2008-11-04 17:00: Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province (Patty Baker (University of Kent))

2008-11-05 13:00: Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance (Joanna Burch Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-11-10 13:00: New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use (Trish Stewart (University of St Andrews))

2008-11-11 17:00: 'Der neue Trend – no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945–1975 (Rosemary Elliot (University of Glasgow))

2008-11-12 13:00: Wu Wen-Tsun: a modern Chinese mathematician and the Chinese mathematical tradition (Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-11-17 13:00: Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)? (Andrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-11-18 17:00: Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark (Anne Løkke (University of Copenhagen))

2008-11-19 13:00: Is the pessimistic induction valid? (Sam Nicholson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-11-24 13:00: A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge (Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of Warwick))

2008-11-25 17:00: Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary (Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary, University of London))

2008-11-26 13:00: Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story (Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-12-01 13:00: Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England (Debby Banham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-12-02 17:00: Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience (Katja Guenther (Harvard University))

2008-12-03 13:00: Status of human tissues (Alix Rogers (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-12-04 16:30: Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities (Rayna Rapp (New York University))

2008-12-16 09:00: Physics of Living Matter 3 (registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you)

2008-12-16 10:00: Imaging biology in the cancer patient (Professor Kevin Brindle Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK)

2008-12-16 10:30: Novel Photonics for the Biomedical Sciences (Professor Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of 	St Andrews, St Andrews, UK)

2008-12-16 11:00: Mechanical manipulation of single molecules in nanopores (Dr Ulrich Keyser, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany)

2008-12-16 12:00: New materials for regenerative medicine applications (Professor Kevin Shakesheff, Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK)

2008-12-16 13:30: Medical Materials (Dr Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK)

2008-12-16 14:00: Of mice, men, and microscopes: Watching the brain dynamics of motor control at the cellular scale in behaving subjects (Dr Mark Schnitzer, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 	Stanford, USA)

2008-12-16 14:30: Reverse engineering the brain: what photons and electrons can tell us about thought. (Professor Winfried Denk, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Biomedizinische Optuik, Germany)

2008-12-16 15:00: Computer modelling of the heart (Professor Denis Noble, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford UK)

2008-12-16 16:00: GRAND OPENING of the Physics of Medicine Building (Professor Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge Professor Sir Aaron Klug, MRC LMB, Cambridge Professor David Delpy, Chief Executive of EPSRC)

2008-12-17 09:00: Glimpses of quantum mechanics in biology (Professor Mike Payne, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK)

2008-12-17 09:30: DNA: Not just a double helix (Dr Julian Huppert, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK)

2008-12-17 10:00: Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (Professor David A Lomas, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK)

2008-12-17 11:00: Excitable systems in cell populations (Dr. Jordi Garcia Ojalvo, Polytechnical University of Barcelona, Spain)

2008-12-17 11:30: Multipotency and Cell Fate decision on the Epigenetic Landscape: From Metaphor to Molecules and Mathematical Model (Dr Sui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)

2008-12-17 12:00: Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues (Professor Ben Simons, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK)

2008-12-17 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Krystyne J. Van Vliet, Department of Materials Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2008-12-17 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Damian Brunner, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)

2008-12-17 15:00: Shape, Polarity and Individuation of Animal Cells (Dr Michel Bornens, Institute Curie, France)

2008-12-17 16:00: L. Bragg lecture: "Single-Molecule Approach for Biochemistry, Molecular Biology ... and Beyond" (Professor Sunney Xie, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University of Harvard)

2009-01-19 13:00: Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist (Alison Wood (King's College London))

2009-01-20 17:00: Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context (Conan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic))

2009-01-21 13:00: Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800 (Signe Nipper Nielsen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-01-27 17:00: Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain (Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick))

2009-01-28 13:00: Proofs, refutations and heuristics: historical and essentialist standpoints in Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics (Jiri Hudecek and Michael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-01-28 17:00: Ultimate fantasies: Sigmund Freud and evolutionary psychiatry (Pieter R. Adriaens (University of Leuven))

2009-01-29 16:30: History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals (John Abraham (University of Sussex))

2009-02-02 13:00: The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation (Marionne Cronin (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2009-02-03 17:00: Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience (Deborah Nicholson (University of the West of Scotland, Paisley))

2009-02-04 13:00: The golden road to China: cartographical representations of an improbable railway project, c.1881-5 (Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-02-09 13:00: Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth (Becky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-02-10 17:00: 'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism (David Leith (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL))

2009-02-11 13:00: Defending shallow essentialism (Nathan Wildman (Faculty of Philosophy))

2009-02-16 13:00: JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world (Andy Hammond (University College London))

2009-02-17 17:00: The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation (Katherine Foxhall (University of Manchester))

2009-02-18 13:00: God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour (Michael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-02-23 13:00: Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae' (Jessica Hughes (Open University))

2009-02-24 17:00: The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13th–14th centuries) (Chiara Crisciani (University of Pavia))

2009-02-25 13:00: Towards a postmodern concept of risk: the contribution of risk perception studies (Céline Kermisch (Université Libre de Bruxelles))

2009-03-02 13:00: 'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20 (Eric Ash (Wayne State University, USA))

2009-03-03 13:00: High science: hill stations and modern astrophysics (Professor Simon Schaffer)

2009-03-03 17:00: How (not) to read the advertisements of oculists: records, testimonies and the strategy of personal encounters in the early 18th century (Karen Buckle (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL))

2009-03-04 13:00: Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries (Katie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-03-09 13:00: Distancing animals in medieval chronicles (Brigitte Resl (University of Liverpool))

2009-03-10 17:00: Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-03-11 13:00: Where do the laws of logic come from? (Florian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy))

2009-03-11 17:00: Transfer, translation, trading: how can we understand international influence and inspirations on a national educational field? (Christian Ydesen (Aarhus University and University of Edinburgh))

2009-04-20 13:00: Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children (Bernard Lightman (York University, Canada))

2009-04-27 13:00: Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man' (Efram Sera Shriar (University of Leeds))

2009-04-29 13:00: Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press (Geoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-05-04 13:00: 'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London (Christopher Plumb (University of Manchester))

2009-05-06 13:00: So what is psychological identification anyway? (Louise Braddock (Girton College))

2009-05-06 17:00: Psychoanalysis and war (Eli Zaretsky (New School for Social Research, NY, and Institut du Temps Présent, Paris))

2009-05-11 13:00: Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London (Richard Coulton (Queen Mary, University of London))

2009-05-13 13:00: Mad women and mad-doctors (Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-05-18 13:00: Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration (Philip Kerrigan (University of York))

2009-05-20 13:00: What reasons needn't be (Ciara Fairley (Faculty of Philosophy))

2009-05-25 13:00: Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew (Katie Zimmerman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-05-27 13:00: The politics of participation: Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory and the formation of civic selves (Frans Lundgren (Uppsala University))

2009-06-03 13:00: Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger (Sacha Golob (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-06-10 13:00: 'Strange are the ways of providence': Calvinism, evolution, and the autobiography of James Croll (Gerardo Con Díaz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-09-22 13:00: Physics of Living Matter 4 (day1) (see abstract for details)

2009-09-23 09:00: Physics of Living Matter 4 (day2) (see abstract for detials)

2009-09-24 13:30: Cell cortex mechanics: of blebs and other intriguing aspects of cell shape (Dr Ewa Paluch, MPI-CBG, Dresden)

2009-10-12 13:00: Fungi in history (Nick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-14 12:00: Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology (Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosopy of Science))

2009-10-14 13:00: The meaning of altruism in interwar London (Nick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-19 13:00: 'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930 (Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-20 17:00: Mechanizing war and medicine: rationalized fracture care in World War I (Thomas Schlich (McGill University))

2009-10-21 13:00: Deference at a distance (John Cusbert (ANU/University of Oxford))

2009-10-28 12:00: The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance (Nicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-28 13:00: Authenticating nature: situating photographic trust in the late nineteenth century scientific periodical press (Geoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-11-02 13:00: Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars (Anne Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-11-04 13:00: The epistemic principle of alternative possibilities (Amit Pundik (Faculty of Law))

2009-11-09 13:00: After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon (Jamie Lorimer (King's College London))

2009-11-11 12:00: Special session in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition (Various speakers)

2009-11-16 13:00: Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture (Toby Musgrave)

2009-11-17 17:00: Medical knowledge and enlightened war: British and French military medicine in the eighteenth century (Erica Charters (University of Oxford))

2009-11-18 13:00: What is a thick concept? (Niklas Möller (Faculty of Philosophy))

2009-11-23 13:00: Lyell's plots (Adelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group))

2009-11-24 17:00: Practitioners, products and promotion: the medical trade catalogue and professional ethics in Britain, 1880–1914 (Claire Jones (University of Leeds))

2009-11-25 12:00: The contested banana tree: public debates about science in eighteenth-century Central America (Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-11-25 13:00: Teacher, toy, or calculator? Reflections of mathematics, education, and society in a 20th-century American object (Caitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-11-30 13:00: Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy (Martin Rudwick (University of California, San Diego))

2009-12-02 13:00: The epistemology of memory (Jonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-12-03 16:30: Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948 (Angus McLaren (University of Victoria))

2010-01-18 13:00: The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor (Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge))

2010-01-19 17:00: 'Isolates' and 'crosses': human evolution and population genetics in the mid-twentieth century (Veronika Lipphardt (MPI for the History of Science, Berlin))

2010-01-20 12:00: A scientific toy for red-blooded boys: the Gilbert chemistry set and non-journalistic popularization of science (Maggie Jack (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-01-20 13:00: Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s Québec (Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-01-25 13:00: The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology (Raf de Bont (Universities of Leuven & Cambridge))

2010-01-27 13:00: Causation and exceptions (Alex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-02-01 13:00: Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology (Kelley Swain (Poet in Residence, Whipple Museum))

2010-02-03 12:00: White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces (Nils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-02-03 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-02-08 13:00: Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s (Joe Cain (University College London))

2010-02-09 13:00: The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge (Boris Jardine (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge))

2010-02-09 17:00: The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany (Claudia Stein (University of Warwick))

2010-02-10 13:00: Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry (Nicholas Teh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-02-15 13:00: Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology (Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-02-22 13:00: Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion (Jim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge))

2010-02-24 13:00: The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study (Natasha Goldberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-03-01 13:00: William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm (David Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-03-03 12:00: Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England (Katie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-03-03 13:00: Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900 (Kathryn Ticehurst (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-03-08 13:00: English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century (Jackie Mountain (The London Consortium – Birkbeck))

2010-03-10 13:00: Lacan's Dialectic of Enlightenment: from Kantian autonomy to the Freudian partial object (Ali Taheri (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-04-26 13:00: Dragons, insects and porcupines: locating the Victorian 'dinosaur' (Ralph O'Connor (University of Aberdeen))

2010-05-10 13:00: Experiments in description: Victorian physics and the natural history of electricity (Chitra Ramalingam (CRASSH))

2010-05-17 13:00: Nature teaching on the blackboard: visual learning in early twentieth-century English school science (Caitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-05-24 13:00: The herbarium and the computer: investigating John Henslow's science (John Parker (Cambridge University Botanic Garden))

2010-09-28 13:30: Day 1 PLM5 (.)

2010-09-28 14:00: Growth, Form and Patterning in Development (Boris Shraiman, KITP University Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA)

2010-09-28 14:30: Sequential activation of apical and basolateral contractility drives ascidian endoderm invagination (Patrick Lemaire, University of Marseille)

2010-09-28 15:00: Matricellular Elasticity and Nuclear Rigidification with Epigenetic implications (Dennis Discher, Biophysical Engineering lab at University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, USA)

2010-09-28 16:00: Understanding How Cell Movements Direct Early Mouse Embryogenesis (Shankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, anatomy and genetics, University of Oxford)

2010-09-28 16:30: Cell dynamics driving gastrulation in the mouse embryo (Kat Hadjantonakis, Sloan Kettering Memorial, New York, USA)

2010-09-28 17:00: Mechanics in neuronal development (Kristian Franze, Department of Physics. The Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge)

2010-09-28 17:30: Development of connections in the Drosophila nervous system - from growth to function (Michael Bate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2010-09-29 08:55: PLM5 Day 2 (.)

2010-09-29 09:00: The gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog morphogen gradient in the neural tube (James Briscoe, NIMR Mill Hill, London)

2010-09-29 09:30: Universal patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissue (Allon Klein, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University, Boston, USA)

2010-09-29 10:00: Variability in the cellular response to death receptor ligands (Suzanne Gaudet, Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, USA)

2010-09-29 11:00: A role for structured noise in developmental pattern refinement (Buzz Baum, LMCB University College London, London)

2010-09-29 11:30: Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: new tools for old questions (Timm Schroeder, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany)

2010-09-29 14:00: Experimental studies and simulations of factors that power and steer mitotic spindle movements (Viji Draviam, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2010-09-29 14:30: Forces and Regulation for Cell Sheet Movements in Dorsal Closure (Dan Kiehart, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham USA)

2010-09-29 15:00: Rigidity comes with age: biomechanical models of tip growth (Bela Mulder, Fundamental Research on Matter Institute, Amsterdam, Holland)

2010-09-29 15:30: The physical forces behind collective cell migration (Xavier Trepat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)

2010-09-29 16:30: Tissue tectonics: quantitative morphogenesis across spatial and temporal scales (Guy Blanchard, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurobiology, University of Cambridge)

2010-09-29 17:00: Collective Cell Migration: Leadership, Invasion and Segregation (Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2010-09-29 17:30: The social biology of sucrose utilization in yeast: I might like you better if we stuck together (Andrew Murray, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Harvard University, Boston, USA)

2010-10-11 13:00: Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration (Carl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-10-12 17:00: Diseased on an Indian Ocean island: medicine, statishness and colonialism (Sujit Sivasundaram (Faculty of History))

2010-10-13 13:00: Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720 (Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-10-18 13:00: Maya ruins, volcanoes and the colonial state in 18th-century Central America (Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-10-19 17:00: The 'miracle of childbirth': the portrayal of parturient women in medieval miracle narratives (Hilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-10-20 13:00: Organisms, autonomy and division of labour (Jonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-10-26 17:00: Catholic activists, medical authority and the limiting of peasant choice in rural Brittany, 1650–1750 (Tim McHugh (Oxford Brookes University))

2010-10-27 13:00: From unhealthy lands to foyers of endemicity: malaria's place in the medical geography of French West Africa, ca.1880–1920 (Christian Strother (Faculty of History))

2010-11-01 13:00: Politeness and the ethical force of natural history (Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-03 13:00: Nature and the space of reasons (Alexis  Papazoglou (Faculty of Philosophy))

2010-11-08 13:00: Victorian palaeontology and serial publication (Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester))

2010-11-09 17:00: 'A cold-blooded business'? Making the modern blood donor in wartime London (Nick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-10 13:00: Concepts and perceptions of body size within western medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen (University of Copenhagen))

2010-11-15 13:00: The human automatism debate in the late 19th century (Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-16 13:00: The virtual object of public health, or: the problem of 'life' in China, 1911–1937 (Malcolm Thompson (University of British Columbia))

2010-11-16 17:00: Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England (Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter))

2010-11-17 13:00: An unstable hybrid - dissolving the metaethical puzzle (Niklas Möller (Faculty of Philosophy))

2010-11-22 13:00: The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape (Hilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-23 17:00: Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800 (Florence Vienne (Technical University, Braunschweig))

2010-11-24 13:00: Margaret Fountaine: the life and works of a rather ordinary Victorian lepidopterist (Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-29 13:00: Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain (Nils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2010-12-06 17:00: Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine (William MacLehose (UCL))

2011-01-20 16:30: Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction (Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University))

2011-01-24 13:00: The hungry cats of Pietro Antonio Michiel, or the fragile nature of Renaissance collecting (Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford))

2011-01-25 17:00: Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared (Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2011-01-26 13:00: Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta (Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-01-31 13:00: The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history (Simon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-02-01 17:00: Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s–1960s (Sandrine Bertaux (Marmara University, Istanbul))

2011-02-07 13:00: Mountainous effects: Alpine space and Victorian lady climbers (Clare Roche (Birkbeck, University of London))

2011-02-08 17:00: 'Patient zero' and the early years of the North American AIDS epidemic (Richard McKay (University of Oxford))

2011-02-09 13:00: To graze and virtue: Anders Gabriel Duhre as a virtuous maker of useful knowledge in early 18th-century Sweden (Jacob Orrje (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-02-14 13:00: Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya (Ruth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies))

2011-02-21 13:00: The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life (Shana Worthen (University of Arkansas at Little Rock))

2011-02-22 17:00: Mortars, exotic drugs, and a battle for expertise: Verona 1561–1566 (Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford))

2011-02-23 13:00: How the Harvard archives reveal that William James was a highly skilled hypnotist (Thibaud Trochu (University of Paris-I Sorbonne))

2011-02-28 13:00: Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants (Susannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-03-01 17:00: Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood (Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University))

2011-03-07 13:00: 'Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype': travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East (Mirjam Brusius (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-03-08 17:00: Cloning and film: fictional vectors of factual imaginaries (Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex))

2011-03-09 13:00: 'Lies and frivolity': manners in scientific dispute in 19th-century Britain and Germany (Raf De Bont (KU Leuven/Imperial College London))

2011-03-14 13:00: Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900 (Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-03-16 13:00: Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law (Joeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-05-04 13:00: Ancient Chinese mathematics in action: Wu Wen-Tsun's ethnic historicism after the Cultural Revolution (Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-05-11 13:00: Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact (Shahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-05-16 13:00: The fairy-tales of science (Melanie Keene (Homerton College))

2011-05-18 13:00: Did wonders ever cease? The singular, shining and spectacular in Charles Dufay's 'Mémoires sur l'électricité' (1733–7) (Michael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-05-23 13:00: Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy (Donald Opitz (DePaul University, Chicago))

2011-05-25 13:00: A framework for emergentism(s) (Olivier Sartenaer (Université Catholique de Louvain))

2011-06-01 13:00: History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives? (Joeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Pierre-Olivier Méthot (University of Exeter))

2011-06-06 13:00: The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum (Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London))

2011-06-08 13:00: Kant on psychology as  'physiology of the inner sense' (Katharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-09-19 13:30: Introduction to Physics of Living Matter Symposium 6 (Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2011-09-19 13:50: Embryonic patterning with an oscillating cell population (Dr Andrew Oates, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

2011-09-19 14:20: Fate restriction and multipotency in retinal stem cells (Dr Jochen Wittbrobt, Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology and Physiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany)

2011-09-19 14:50: 'Measuring the molecular dynamics of endocytosis using light microscopy (Dr Christien Merrifield, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)

2011-09-19 15:50: Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: New tools for old questions (Dr Timm Schroeder, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz, Munich, Germany)

2011-09-19 16:20: Systems Analysis in Single Cells (Professor Mike White, University of Manchester, UK)

2011-09-19 16:50: Controlling the Cell Cycle (Professor Sir Paul Nurse, The Royal Society, UK)

2011-09-20 09:30: Chemotaxis: linking cell shape, behaviour and strategy (Robert Endres, Imperial College, London, UK)

2011-09-20 10:00: Chromatin, nuclear mechanics and the cytoskeleton (Dr Megan King, Yale, USA)

2011-09-20 10:30: Patterns in active fluids (Dr Stephan Grill, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

2011-09-20 11:45: Transport in random fields and applications to Drosophila melanogaster (Dr Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-09-20 12:15: Modeling cytoskeletal systems. (Dr Francois Nedelec, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)

2011-09-20 12:45: Zooming into the molecular networks that regulate cellular morphogenesis (Dr Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-09-20 14:30: Mechanical regulation of the cytoskeleton (Dan Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA)

2011-09-20 15:00: Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early embryos (Dr Benedicte Sanson, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-09-20 16:00: Collective migration of neural crest cells: a balance of repulsion and attraction (Professor Roberto Mayor, University College London, UK)

2011-09-20 16:30: Mechanical forces driving zebrafish epiboly (Dr Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria)

2011-09-20 17:00: Planar cell polarity: From cell biology to human disease (Professor John Wallingford, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA)

2011-09-20 17:30: Closing Remarks (Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge))

2011-10-10 13:00: '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 (Philippa Hardman (Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge))

2011-10-11 17:00: Silent partners: artists and the mannequin from function to fetish (Jane Munro (Fitzwilliam Museum))

2011-10-12 17:00: Human genetics and the blood transfusion services: circulating records, samples and expertise, 1939–1945 (Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-10-17 13:00: Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900 (A. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-10-18 13:00: The event in the syndemic: state and subject formation in the two Manchurian pneumonic plague outbreaks (1910–11, 1920–21) (Christos Lynteris (CRASSH))

2011-10-18 17:00: Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45 (Martina Schlünder (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen))

2011-10-19 13:00: Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics (Anna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-10-26 17:00: The many roles of material variation in Charles Dufay's mémoires on electricity and phosphorescence (Michael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-10-31 13:00: Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic (Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-11-01 13:00: The palace of cats and falcons: 21st-century fauna in a 20th-century skyscraper (Michal Murawski (Department of Social Anthropology))

2011-11-01 17:00: 'Nott a sadder creature in the world': parental grief in early modern England, 1580–1720 (Hannah Newton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-11-02 13:00: The ins and outs of mathematical explanation (Mark Colyvan (University  of Sydney))

2011-11-07 13:00: Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal (Philip Howell (Department of Geography))

2011-11-08 17:00: Speaking for the patient as consumer in late 20th-century Britain (Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine))

2011-11-09 17:00: Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-11-14 13:00: Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s (Katey Anderson (York University, Toronto))

2011-11-15 13:00: A mould discarded: abortion and class in 1930s rhetoric and fiction (Fran Bigman (Faculty of English))

2011-11-15 17:00: Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction' (Susanne Lettow (Freie Universität Berlin))

2011-11-16 13:00: The equivocation objection to priority monism (Emily Thomas (Faculty of Philosophy))

2011-11-21 13:00: Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker (Tim Boon (Science Museum))

2011-11-22 17:00: Medicine in and around Dunhuang: preliminary assessment of ancient transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Road (Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2011-11-23 13:00: The politics of STS: instituting science studies in the age of Cold War (Elena Aronova (University of California, San Diego))

2011-11-23 17:00: Proctor's Mars: new astronomy and new journalism in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s (Joshua Nall (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-11-28 13:00: Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics (Christine Aicardi (Wellcome Library and UCL))

2011-11-29 13:00: Good practices in rural landscapes: J. Entrican and the rediscovery of indigenous medicine in colonial Burma (Atsuko Naono (School of Oriental and African Studies))

2011-12-01 13:00: Retrocausality – what would it take? (Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy))

2012-01-19 16:30: Revisiting the Mendelian revolution (Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter))

2012-01-23 13:00: Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone' (Caitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-01-24 17:00: Imagin(in)g the breast: mammography and breast cancer in the context of South-North American exchanges (Yolanda Eraso (University of Oxford))

2012-01-25 13:00: The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models (Rahul Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-01-30 13:00: Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited (Dominic Berry (University of Leeds))

2012-01-31 13:00: The case of social interaction in bioscience laboratories: a multi-site ethnographic study of design intent and user experience (Alison McDougall-Weil (Engineering Design Centre))

2012-01-31 17:00: British 'sexology' and the uses of the past (Kate Fisher (University of Exeter))

2012-02-01 17:00: How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight (Jiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-02-06 13:00: Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man (Miruna Achim (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City))

2012-02-08 13:00: Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure (Leo Corry (Tel-Aviv University))

2012-02-13 13:00: Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis (Karin Ekholm (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-02-14 13:00: The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe (Leslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London and CRASSH, Cambridge))

2012-02-14 17:00: Fitting for health: steel-trusses in the enlightened economy of healthcare (Christelle Rabier (LSE))

2012-02-15 17:00: Technological trajectories of hip replacement (Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-02-20 13:00: Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06 (Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-02-21 17:00: A pre-peanut history of food allergy (Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde))

2012-02-22 13:00: Sui generis explanations: scientific progress and scientific realism (Robert Northcott (Birkbeck, University of London))

2012-02-27 13:00: Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany (Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway))

2012-02-28 13:00: The narcissist and the coquette: contesting figures of sexual sociability (Julie Walsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-02-28 17:00: Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century (Ed Ramsden (University of Exeter))

2012-02-29 17:00: 'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980 (Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-03-05 13:00: Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe (José Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-03-06 17:00: Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England (Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University))

2012-03-07 13:00: You can get here from there: 'thick' communication, interpretation, and projective identification explained (Louise Braddock (Girton College))

2012-03-12 13:00: Thomas Bewick, engraving the world (Jenny Uglow)

2012-03-13 13:00: Principles, pluralism and 'moral experts': reassessing the history of bioethics (Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester))

2012-04-28 13:00: Philosophical issues in research funding allocation (Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo) and Donald Gillies (UCL))

2012-04-30 13:00: Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel (Flavio Häner (Pharmacy Museum, University of Basel))

2012-05-01 13:00: Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists (Lydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-05-02 13:00: The paradoxes of quantum theory: solving vs. dissolving (Simon Friederich (Universität Wuppertal))

2012-05-09 17:00: The global biopolitics of female sterilization (Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-05-14 13:00: An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell (Alistair Sponsel (Harvard University))

2012-05-16 13:00: Kripke's Wittgenstein on meaning and rules (Yohan Joo (Faculty of Philosophy))

2012-05-21 13:00: 'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously (Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent))

2012-05-23 17:00: From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs (Alistair Sponsel (Harvard University))

2012-05-28 13:00: 'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era (Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-05-30 13:00: Emergence in complexity science (Lena Zuchowski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-06-06 17:00: Conceptual change in history of science (Irene Goudarouli (University of Athens))

2012-06-20 17:00: Studying Babylonia in Philadelphia: Assyriological practice and the University of Pennsylvania's museum, c.1900 (Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-08 13:00: Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin (Jim Moore (Open University))

2012-10-09 17:00: A delicate alliance: aid agencies and the media in Britain since the 1960s (Ayesha Nathoo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-10 17:00: Science funding 2.0 (Shahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-11 13:00: Heredity under the microscope (Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA))

2012-10-15 13:00:  The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish! (Nicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-16 17:00: Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland (Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh))

2012-10-23 17:00: Consensus, correspondence and the development of the 'second opinion' in Nuremberg's medical reformation, 1560–1598 (Hannah Murphy (University of California, Berkeley))

2012-10-24 17:00: The chemical origins of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie Jr.'s Calculus of Chemical Operations (Steve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-25 13:00: Wanting your own words: writing in the first person about sexuality and feminism (Katherine Angel (University of Warwick))

2012-10-29 13:00: Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America (Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-31 17:00: 'What is Mercury?', chapter 1 of The Making of English Alchemy, the speaker's forthcoming book (Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-05 13:00: Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age (Helen Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-06 17:00: 'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England (Marisa Benoit (University of Oxford))

2012-11-07 17:00: Mind your Ps and Qs: a contrastive account of testimonial inference to the best explanation (James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-08 13:00: The Peckham Experiment (Boris Jardine (Science Museum, London))

2012-11-12 13:00: 'The Age of Reptiles' and 'Memnonium or Head of Rameses': the frontispiece of George Fleming Richardson's Geology for Beginners (1842 and 1843) (Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-13 17:00: Group formations: surgeons and artists in Victorian group portraiture (Keren Hammerschlag (King's College London))

2012-11-14 17:00: Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London (Nicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-19 13:00: Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park (Megan Barford (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-21 17:00:  Objectivity in psychology – a Kantian perspective (Katharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-22 13:00: Joseph Rotblat: physics, the Bomb and some consequences (Martin Underwood (University of Oxford))

2012-11-26 13:00: Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history (Natalie Lawrence (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-27 17:00: Ordinary seamen, bodily knowledge and Royal Navy sex crimes trials, 1688–1783 (Seth LeJacq (Johns Hopkins University))

2012-11-28 17:00: Fashionable intelligence: popular experiences of galvanism and the Regency newspaper press (Iain P. Watts (Princeton University))

2013-01-17 16:30: Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics' (Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France))

2013-01-21 13:00: Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710–1788 (Michael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-01-22 17:00: Mental illness and cognitive impairment in central and late medieval Normandy: attitudes and responses (Elma Brenner (Wellcome Trust Library))

2013-01-23 17:00: More models, more problems? (Rune Nyrup (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-01-24 13:00: The training and practice of English medical professionals in ophthalmia neonatorum, c. 1900–13 (Anne Hanley (Faculty of History))

2013-01-28 13:00: Vivisection by storytelling: the experimental novel in the late 19th century (Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project))

2013-01-30 17:00: Common sense and phrenology (Sean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-02-04 13:00: 'The man with the detective eye': observation in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) (Anne Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-02-05 17:00: Coping with recalcitrance: futility, frustration and failure in the history of cancer research (Carsten Timmermann (University of Manchester))

2013-02-07 13:00: The fall of Johnstown: exhibiting disasters at the turn of the 20th century (Anders Ekström (Uppsala University))

2013-02-11 13:00: When the archaeologists are searching for a legend: the (re-)invention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Marie-Françoise Besnier (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-02-12 17:00: Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy (Emma-Jayne Graham (Open University))

2013-02-13 17:00: Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators (Scott Anthony (Faculty of History))

2013-02-18 13:00: Romanticism, aesthetics and violence in natural history (Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Kent))

2013-02-19 17:00: Mapping the medical marketplace: early modern Welsh practitioners and medical retail (Alun Withey (University of Exeter))

2013-02-20 17:00: Theory ladenness and narrative in the history of science: (how) can historical evidence support philosophical arguments? (Katherina Kinzel (University of Vienna))

2013-02-21 13:00: Scientific uncertainty and 'sufficient knowledge': the development of a European-wide research programme on acid rain (Rachel Rothschild (Yale University))

2013-02-25 13:00: Beefing up science: British Bovril, bulging biceps and nutrition science (Lesley Steinitz (Faculty of History))

2013-02-27 17:00: The meanings of a breakthrough: categories, news and priority in the making of transgenic mice (Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-03-05 17:00: From benchside to clinic: the rise of monoclonal antibodies in healthcare (Lara Marks (King's College London))

2013-03-06 17:00: Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges (Minwoo Seo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-03-07 13:00: Atomic energy and Britain's position in the world, 1954–56 (Martin Theaker (Faculty of History))

2013-03-11 13:00: Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain (Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-03-12 17:00: Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present (Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London))

2013-03-13 17:00: Varieties of tacit knowledge (Tim Rogan (Faculty of History))

2013-03-18 13:00: The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding (David Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-04-25 13:00: Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology (Etienne Benson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2013-04-29 13:00: Impressed upon the countenance: knowledge and visibility in Lavaterian physiognomy (Stephanie O'Rourke (Columbia University))

2013-05-02 13:00: Science, sexuality and transnational networks in South African AIDS activism, 1994–2001 (Mandisa Mbali (University of Stellenbosch))

2013-05-06 13:00: The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge (Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2013-05-08 17:00: Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain (Simon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-13 13:00: Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900 (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-15 17:00: Explanation in neuroscience (Zina Ward (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-20 13:00: Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820 (Simon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-22 17:00: Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan (Oliver Marsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-29 17:00: The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice (Anna de Bruyckere (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-06-05 17:00: Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720 (Michelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-06-12 17:00: Rationality in extraordinary science (Vashka dos Remedios (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-06-19 17:00: Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration (Shane McCorristine (Department of Geography))

2013-10-08 17:00: Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940–1980 (Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo))

2013-10-14 13:00: The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672–99) (Scott Mandelbrote (Faculty of History))

2013-10-15 17:00: The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century (Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan))

2013-10-21 13:00: Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940–65 (Kathryn Ticehurst (University of Sydney))

2013-10-22 17:00: Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding (Gabriella Zuccolin (Open University))

2013-10-23 17:00: The changing face of Penfield's homunculus (Zina Ward (Faculty of Philosophy))

2013-11-04 13:00: Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science (Damian Hughes (De Montfort University))

2013-11-05 17:00: The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture (Christina Brandt (Ruhr University Bochum))

2013-11-06 17:00: Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France (Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-11-11 13:00: Willi Hennig and philosophy (Charissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project))

2013-11-12 17:00: The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s (Sandra Eder (University of Zurich))

2013-11-13 17:00: Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift (Raj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-11-18 13:00: 'Dangerous and improper material': models, preparations and the relationship between object and user in 18th- and 19th-century anatomical collections (Anna Maerker (King's College London))

2013-11-19 17:00: Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650–c.1830 (Mark Jenner (University of York))

2013-11-20 17:00: 'Contagious' delusions? W.B.Carpenter and the politics of psycho-physiology in 19th-century Britain (Daniel Simpson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-11-25 13:00: Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century (Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-11-28 13:00: Location, multi-location and endurance (Carlo Rossi (Faculty of Philosophy))

2013-12-02 13:00: The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning (Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-12-04 17:00: Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures (Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-01-16 16:30: The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project (Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow))

2014-01-20 13:00: Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801–1837 (Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester))

2014-01-21 17:00: The multiple inventions of transgenic mice (Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-01-24 12:00: The medicalisation of love (Brian Earp (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-01-27 13:00: The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature (Cassandra Gorman (Faculty of English))

2014-01-27 17:15: One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex' (Helen King (Open University))

2014-01-29 17:00: Spaces for debate between science and religion in Franco's Spain: the intellectual conversations of Poblet (1959–1961) (Clara Florensa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona))

2014-02-03 13:00: The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together (Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln))

2014-02-07 12:00: What is evidence? (Matt Penfold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-02-10 13:00: Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India (Joydeep Sen (University of Kent))

2014-02-12 17:00: Sensible error and other silly notions: galvanizing time in Victorian London (Ken Corbett (University of British Columbia))

2014-02-17 13:00: Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy (Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-02-18 20:30: Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England (Alexandra Walsham (Faculty of History))

2014-02-21 12:00: The contingency of logical necessity: an analysis of a sociological account of logic (Marion Boulicault (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-02-25 17:00: From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement (Niki Vermeulen (University of Manchester))

2014-02-26 17:00: Grünthal, Nikolai Hartmann and Schichtenlehre: instituting brain anatomy in a 1950s Swiss psychiatric hospital (Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-03-03 13:00: What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction (Jon Agar (UCL))

2014-03-04 17:00: From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century (Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway))

2014-03-07 12:00: The prospects for Darwinian imperialism (Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-03-10 13:00: National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839) (James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-03-12 17:00: Dinosaurs don't die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854–2001 (Melanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-04-28 13:00: William Courten (1642–1702) and natural history (Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2014-05-05 13:00: Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics (Lee Jung (Needham Research Institute))

2014-05-07 17:00: The first Human Genome Project: computers and the mapping of human genes, 1950–1970 (Michael McGovern (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-05-12 13:00: Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship (Mimi Winick (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey))

2014-05-16 12:00: What is empathy? A genealogical account (Riana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-05-19 13:00: Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire (Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2014-05-21 17:00: Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside (Caitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-05-26 13:00: The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning (Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-06-02 13:00: Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750–1830 (Thomas le Roux (Maison Française d'Oxford))

2014-06-04 17:00: The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy (Federico Morganti (Sapienza University of Rome))

2014-06-06 12:00: Task-indexed belief (Jack Marley-Payne (MIT))

2014-06-13 12:00: Representationalism and pragmatism (Piotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland))

2014-06-18 17:00: Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885–1914 (Linda Ratschiller (University of Fribourg, Switzerland))

2014-10-13 13:00: Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island (Susannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-10-14 17:00: John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London (Margaret Pelling (University of Oxford))

2014-10-15 17:00: 'Illuminating effects': visual culture and the exhibition of lighthouses in Victorian London (Stephen A. Courtney (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-10-16 12:30: The realist stance (Anjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame))

2014-10-16 16:30: Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship (Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-10-20 13:00: Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850s–1930s) (Christof Dejung (Faculty of History, Cambridge))

2014-10-21 17:00: Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre (Cathy McClive (Durham University))

2014-10-28 17:00: Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data (Joanna Radin (Yale University))

2014-10-29 17:00: 'Crackpots' and 'active researchers': the string wars, arXiv and the blogosphere (Sophie Ritson (University of Sydney))

2014-11-04 17:00: Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages (Sophie Page (University College London))

2014-11-11 17:00: Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America (Carlos López Beltrán (UNAM, Mexico))

2014-11-18 17:00: Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860–1960 (Claire Jones (King's College London))

2014-11-19 17:00: Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history (Timothy Rees Jones (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-11-21 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Eleanor Knox (King's College London))

2014-11-25 17:00: Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500–1720: a case-study of the South West (Jonathan Barry and Peter Elmer (University of Exeter))

2014-11-26 17:00: Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston (Steve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-12-02 17:00: 'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine (Stephen Mawdsley (Clare Hall, Cambridge))

2015-01-15 16:30: One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation (Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics))

2015-01-19 13:00: Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia (Alexander Iosad (University of Oxford))

2015-01-20 17:00: Casta paintings and the colonial body (Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick))

2015-01-21 17:00: Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism (Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-01-26 13:00: Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain (Allegra Fryxell (Faculty of History))

2015-01-27 17:00: Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France (Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-02 13:00: 'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth (Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-04 17:00: Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750 (Clare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-09 13:00: Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821) (Sophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London))

2015-02-10 17:00: Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine (Caitjan Gainty (King's College London))

2015-02-16 13:00: Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720 (Alexander Wragge-Morley (University College London))

2015-02-17 17:00: Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626–1694) (Sophie Mann (University of Essex))

2015-02-18 17:00: The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s (Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-23 13:00: Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature (Claire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-24 17:00: Malthus and the South Sea (Alison Bashford (Faculty of History))

2015-03-02 13:00: Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800 (Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick))

2015-03-03 17:00: Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s (María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid))

2015-03-04 17:00: Newtonian politics (Jason Grier (York University, Canada))

2015-03-09 13:00: Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution (Petter Hellström (Uppsala University))

2015-03-10 17:00: The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710–1790): creating a digital edition (David Shuttleton (University of Glasgow))

2015-04-27 13:00: Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry (Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-04-29 17:00: Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy (Seb Falk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-05-11 13:00: The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France (José Beltrán (European University Institute, Florence))

2015-05-13 17:00: John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata (Jonnie Penn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-05-18 13:00: The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education (Melanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge))

2015-05-27 17:00: Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge (Jenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-06-10 17:00: Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain (Brandon Jackson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-10-12 13:00: Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica (G.A. Cook (University of Hong Kong))

2015-10-13 17:00: 'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS (Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick))

2015-10-19 13:00: Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change (Laura Jane Martin (Harvard University))

2015-10-20 17:00: Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula (Stefano Cracolici (Durham University))

2015-11-02 13:00: Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France (Emma Spary (Faculty of History))

2015-11-03 17:00: After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative (Dora Vargha (Birkbeck, University of London))

2015-11-09 13:00: Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800 (Dominik Huenniger (University of Göttingen))

2015-11-10 16:00: On the political use of physiognomy around 1500 (Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa))

2015-11-16 13:00: The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England (Debby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic))

2015-11-17 17:00: Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain (Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University))

2015-11-23 13:00: Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s (Dorit Brixius (European University Institute))

2015-11-24 17:00: The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade (Sarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-11-30 13:00: From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1924 (Emily Hayes (University of Exeter))

2015-12-01 17:00: Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world (Katharine Park (Harvard University))

2016-01-14 16:30: Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients (Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg))

2016-01-18 13:00: 'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment (Andrew Wear (University College London))

2016-01-19 17:00: The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880–1950 (Chris Manias (KCL))

2016-01-25 13:00: Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century (Clare Hickman (University of Chester))

2016-01-26 16:00: Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam (Liana Saif (University of Oxford))

2016-02-01 13:00: John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664 (Raffaella Bruzzone (University of Nottingham))

2016-02-02 17:00: Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century (Lisa Malich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

2016-02-08 13:00: Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical (Geoffrey Belknap (University of Leicester))

2016-02-09 17:00: The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900 (Tatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University))

2016-02-15 13:00: Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics (Christopher McHugh (University of Sunderland))

2016-02-16 17:00: 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) (Emilie Savage-Smith (University of Oxford))

2016-02-22 13:00: Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century (Alice Marples (King's College London))

2016-02-23 17:00: The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine (Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University))

2016-02-29 13:00: Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) (Mariana Françozo (Leiden University))

2016-03-01 17:00: Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century (Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool))

2016-03-07 13:00: The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking (Maria Avxentevskaya (Freie Universität Berlin))

2016-03-08 17:00: Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections (Gabriele Ferrario (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Unit, Cambridge))

2016-05-02 13:00: Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species (Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University))

2016-05-09 13:00: Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism (Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2016-05-16 13:00: Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities (Chris Hunt (University of Warwick))

2016-05-23 13:00: The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance (Viktoria von Hoffmann (University of Liège / University of Cambridge))

2016-10-10 13:00: 'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history (Matthew Wale (University of Leicester))

2016-10-11 17:00: The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service (Claas Kirchhelle (University of Oxford))

2016-10-17 13:00: The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798–1820 (Jessica Ratcliff (Cornell University and Yale-NUS College))

2016-10-18 17:00: Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea (Aya Homei (University of Manchester))

2016-10-25 17:00: The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity (Anna Winterbottom (University of Sussex))

2016-10-31 13:00: After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787–1810 (Jordan Goodman (UCL))

2016-11-01 17:00: Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England (Leah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science))

2016-11-07 13:00: Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot (David Harris Sacks (Reed College))

2016-11-08 17:00: The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture (Ed Juler (Newcastle University))

2016-11-14 13:00: Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world (Anja-Silvia Goeing (Visiting Fellow, Harvard University))

2016-11-15 17:00: From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750–1830) (Pierre-Etienne Stockland (Columbia University))

2016-11-21 13:00: The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer (Lisa Skogh (Victoria & Albert Museum))

2016-11-22 17:00: Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica (Dániel Margócsy (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2016-11-24 15:30: Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling (Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan))

2016-11-28 13:00: Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks (Daniel Simpson (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2016-11-29 17:00: The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis' (Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-01-23 13:00: Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books (Katrina Maydom (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-01-24 17:00: Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system' (Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH))

2017-01-30 13:00: Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970–2008 (Sara Peres (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-01-31 17:00: Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet (Sasha Handley (University of Manchester))

2017-02-06 13:00: The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768–1771 (Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-02-07 17:00: Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine (Tamar Novick (MPI, Berlin))

2017-02-13 13:00: Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School (Richard Bellis (University of Leeds))

2017-02-14 17:00: The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500 (Tillmann Taape (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-02-20 13:00: Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence (Ben Bradley (Charles Sturt University, NSW))

2017-02-21 17:00: Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000 (Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh))

2017-02-27 13:00: Natural history and the antiquarian (Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-02-28 17:00: Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility (Zubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh))

2017-03-06 13:00: James Cuninghame – 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy' (Charlie Jarvis (Natural History Museum))

2017-03-07 17:00: The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa (Jane Stephens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes University))

2017-03-13 13:00: Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873) (James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-03-14 17:00: Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s (Jeong-ran Kim (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford))

2017-05-01 13:00: When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals (Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University))

2017-05-08 13:00: Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly (Mark Wormald (Pembroke College))

2017-05-15 13:00: Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4 (Christina Skott (Faculty of History))

2017-05-22 13:00: Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729) (Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum))

2017-06-05 13:00: Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask (James Delbourgo (Rutgers University))

2017-10-09 13:00: On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage (Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology))

2017-10-10 17:00: Joachim Wtewael and the human body (James Clifton (MFA, Houston))

2017-10-16 13:00: 'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850 (Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History))

2017-10-17 17:00: Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century (Nicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva))

2017-10-24 17:00: Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine (Maaike van der Lugt (University of Versailles))

2017-10-30 13:00: Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance (Andrew Lacey (Making & Knowing Project, Columbia University))

2017-10-31 17:00: Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86 (Boyd Brogan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-11-06 13:00: What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox) (Catarina Madruga (Universidade de Lisboa))

2017-11-07 17:00: The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda (Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick))

2017-11-13 13:00: Iron holds the whale (Jenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-11-14 17:00: Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices (Stuart Hogarth (Department of Sociology))

2017-11-20 13:00: From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism (Alex Aylward (University of Leeds))

2017-11-21 17:00: Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century (Erica Charters (University of Oxford))

2017-11-27 13:00: A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian (Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest))

2017-11-28 17:00: The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain (James Stark (University of Leeds))

2018-01-22 13:00: Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century (Ádám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest))

2018-01-23 17:00: 'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system (Margaret Charleroy (University of Warwick))

2018-01-29 13:00:  The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63 (Meira Gold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2018-01-30 17:00: Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households (Sasha Handley (University of Manchester))

2018-02-05 13:00: Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world (Simon Werrett (UCL))

2018-02-06 17:00: Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility (Valerie Worth (University of Oxford))

2018-02-12 13:00: Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees (Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet))

2018-02-13 17:00: Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East (Elise Burton (Newnham College, Cambridge))

2018-02-19 13:00: Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s (Caterina Schürch (LMU München))

2018-02-20 17:00: Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain (Yari Perez-Marin (Durham University))

2018-02-26 13:00: How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge (Justin Rivest (Faculty of History))

2018-02-27 17:00: Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion (Sally Sheldon (University of Kent))

2018-03-01 15:30: Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine (Alisha Rankin (Tufts University))

2018-03-05 13:00: A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection (Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum))

2018-03-06 17:00: Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine (Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge))

2018-03-12 13:00: The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks (Genie Yoo (Princeton University))

2018-03-13 17:00: Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences (Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

2018-04-30 13:00: Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade (Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University))

2018-05-07 13:00: Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900) (Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris))

2018-05-14 13:00: Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756) (László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest))

2018-05-21 13:00: Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869 (Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence))

2018-10-08 13:00: The long-lost Paston Collection (Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge))

2018-10-09 17:00: 'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France (Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris))

2018-10-15 13:00: Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency (Emma Spary (Faculty of History))

2018-10-16 17:00: Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France (Oded Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University))

2018-10-23 17:00: 'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959 (Gareth Millward (University of Warwick))

2018-10-29 13:00: Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685 (Justin Rivest (Faculty of History))

2018-10-30 17:00: Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s (Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde))

2018-11-05 13:00: The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century (Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History))

2018-11-06 17:00: From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century (Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2018-11-12 13:00: Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century (Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History))

2018-11-13 17:00: Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute (Marissa Mika (University College London))

2018-11-19 13:00: Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872 (Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2018-11-20 17:00: From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe (Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London))

2018-11-26 13:00: Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle (Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen))

2018-11-27 17:00: Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine (Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge))

2019-01-17 16:00: Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine (Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University))

2019-01-22 17:00: Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-01-28 13:00: Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies (Genie Yoo (Princeton University))

2019-01-29 17:00: From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain (Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-02-04 13:00: Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire (Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-02-05 17:00: Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine (Hannah Murphy (King's College London))

2019-02-11 13:00: Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe (Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-02-12 17:00: Anatomy museum on the move (Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford))

2019-02-18 13:00: Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century (Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews))

2019-02-19 17:00: Giants and national identity in early modern Europe (Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University))

2019-02-25 13:00: Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK (John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London))

2019-02-26 17:00: Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences (Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2019-03-04 13:00: The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections (Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm))

2019-03-05 17:00: Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion (Sally Sheldon (University of Kent))

2019-03-11 13:00: Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice (Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University))

2019-03-12 17:00: Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body (Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth))

2019-04-29 13:00: The politics of the potato in the 19th century (Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick))

2019-05-06 13:00: When is a cow not a cow? (Harriet Ritvo (MIT))

2019-05-13 13:00: Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867) (Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México))

2019-05-20 13:00: Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England (James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter))

2019-10-14 13:00: Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis (Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen))

2019-10-15 17:00: Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913 (Michael Sappol (Uppsala University))

2019-10-21 13:00: The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800 (Paul Sampson (Rutgers University))

2019-10-22 17:00: Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'? (William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University))

2019-10-29 17:00: A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe (Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London))

2019-11-04 13:00: It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899) (Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology))

2019-11-05 17:00: Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title (Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2019-11-11 13:00: Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur (Matt Holmes (CRASSH))

2019-11-12 17:00: In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood (Lochlann Jain (Stanford University))

2019-11-18 13:00: 'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology (Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-11-19 17:00: Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London (Elaine Leong (University College London))

2019-11-26 17:00: Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa (Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg))

2019-12-03 17:00: Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia (Dror Weil (King's College London))

2020-01-14 17:00: The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s (Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde))

2020-01-20 13:00: 'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900 (Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast))

2020-01-21 17:00: The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China (Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute))

2020-01-27 13:00: Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925 (Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History))

2020-02-03 13:00: Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India (Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto))

2020-02-04 17:00: '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 (Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London))

2020-02-11 17:00: A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain (Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science))

2020-02-13 16:00: The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body (Sarah Richardson (Harvard University))

2020-02-14 13:00: Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar (Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds))

2020-02-17 13:00: Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s (Chris Manias (King's College London))

2020-02-18 17:00: Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic (Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University))

2020-02-24 13:00: Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain (Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2020-02-25 17:00: Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain (Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2020-03-02 13:00: Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa (Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia))

2020-03-09 13:00: Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s (J'Nese Williams (Stanford University))

2020-10-13 17:00: Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993 (Grace Redhead (University College London))

2020-10-20 17:00: The first Egyptian society (Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln))

2020-10-27 17:00: Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s) (Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow))

2020-11-03 17:00: The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain (Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham))

2020-11-10 17:00: Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan (Victoria Lee (Ohio University))

2020-11-17 17:00: Gender and generation in premodern Europe (Leah DeVun (Rutgers University))

2020-12-01 17:00: The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century (Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois))

2021-01-26 17:00: The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine (Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University))

2021-02-02 17:00: Renaissance eugenics (Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College))

2021-02-11 16:00: Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition (Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University))

2021-02-16 17:00: Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening (Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley))

2021-02-23 17:00: Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image (Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia))

2021-03-02 17:00: As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s (Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University))

2021-03-09 17:00: Birth, fate, and Roman futures (Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan))

2021-03-16 17:00: The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940 (Aro Velmet (University of Southern California))

2021-05-18 17:00: The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century (Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy)

2021-10-12 17:00: 'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain (Chris Otter (Ohio State University))

2021-10-19 17:00: Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800 (Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge))

2021-10-26 17:00:  Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910) (Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna))

2021-11-02 17:00: Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment? (Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity))

2021-11-09 17:00: Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter (Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata))

2021-11-16 17:00: Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil (Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2021-11-23 17:00: Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China (Dror Weil (Faculty of History))

2021-11-30 17:00: 'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids (Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware))

2021-12-07 17:00: Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520) (Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University))

2022-01-20 16:00: Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico (Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University))

2022-01-25 17:00: Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction (Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University))

2022-02-01 17:00: Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720) (Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK))

2022-02-08 17:00: Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i (Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia))

2022-02-15 17:00: Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences (Tracey Loughran (University of Essex))

2022-03-07 17:00: Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010 (Wayne Soon (Vassar College))

2022-03-15 17:00: Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade (Yijun Wang (New York University))

2022-05-10 17:00: Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art (Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut))

2022-05-24 17:00: A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America (Kathryn Renton (UCLA))

2022-10-11 09:00: 'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages' (Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo))

2022-10-18 17:00: Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714) (Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University))

2022-10-25 17:00: How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s (Tinne Claes (KU Leuven))

2022-11-01 17:30: Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images (Surekha Davies (Utrecht University))

2022-11-08 17:30: Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century (Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute))

2022-11-15 17:30: From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750) (Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2022-11-22 17:00: Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century (Jenny Bangham (QMUL))

2022-11-29 17:30: Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India (Sonia Wigh)

2023-01-17 11:00: 'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850 (Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh))

2023-01-23 13:00: Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer (Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge))

2023-01-24 17:00: Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences (Tracey Loughran (University of Essex))

2023-01-26 16:00: Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition (He Bian (Princeton University))

2023-01-31 17:00: Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688 (Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam))

2023-02-07 17:00: 'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990 (Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen))

2023-03-06 13:00: Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal (Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge))

2023-03-07 17:00: Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960 (Dora Yao (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-13 13:00: 'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain (Max Long (History, University of Cambridge))

2023-03-14 17:00: Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period (Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum))

2023-05-02 17:00: Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain (Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London))

2023-05-08 13:00: Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72 (Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University))

2023-05-09 17:00: Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine (Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta))

2023-05-15 13:00: The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment (Valentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University))

2023-05-16 17:00: Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy (Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-22 13:00: Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I (Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University))

2023-05-29 13:00: The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century (Lynn Berry (Open University))

2023-05-29 17:00: 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 (Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta))

2023-10-10 17:00: The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China (Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University))

2023-10-16 13:00: Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina (Silvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2023-10-17 17:00: Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies (Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice))

2023-10-23 13:00: To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England (Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick))

2023-10-24 17:00: Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain (Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick))

2023-10-30 12:00: Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy (Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University))

2023-10-31 17:00: Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe (Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2023-11-06 13:00: Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century (Rachel Feldberg (University of York))

2023-11-07 17:00: Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics (Claire Shaw (University of Warwick))

2023-11-14 17:00: Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain (Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham))

2023-11-20 13:00: Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History) (Erica Fischer (King's College London))

2023-11-21 17:00: Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933 (Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews))

2023-11-27 13:00: Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia (Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London))

2023-11-28 17:00: The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia (Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield))

2024-01-23 17:00: How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present (Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland))

2024-01-30 17:00: Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730 (Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg))

2024-02-06 17:00: Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity (Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil))

2024-02-08 15:30: Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic (Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison))

2024-02-13 17:00: Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760 (Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu))

2024-02-20 17:00: The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine (Various speakers)

2024-02-27 17:00: Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350 (Catherine Rider (University of Exeter))

2024-03-05 17:00: A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference (Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego))

2024-03-12 17:00: Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500 (Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria))

2024-04-24 15:00: Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism (Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto))

2024-04-30 17:00: Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War (Andreas Killen (The City College of New York, CUNY))

2024-05-07 17:00: Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future (Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University))

2024-05-08 13:00: Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value? (Cristian Larroulet Philippi (Gonville and Caius College))

2024-05-14 17:00: The global health focus on early life: origin stories (Michelle Pentecost (King's College London))

2024-05-21 17:00: Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465–1700 (Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute))

2024-10-15 17:00: AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties (Somak Biswas (Faculty of History))

2024-10-22 17:00: Garga's knowledge of the crow (vāyasavidyā) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology (Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen))

2024-10-29 17:00: Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution (Anna Toropova (University of Warwick))

2024-11-05 17:00: Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history (Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield))

2024-11-12 17:00: Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300–1550) (Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Würzburg))

2024-11-19 17:00: Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England (Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin))

2024-11-26 17:00: Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London (Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester))

2024-12-03 17:00: The smallpox epidemic in 18th-century Tibet: theories, preventions and inoculations (Lobsang Yongdan (Austrian Academy of Sciences))

2025-02-03 13:00: Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge (Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute))

2025-02-10 13:00: University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks (Various speakers)

2025-02-17 13:00: Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century (Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research))

2025-02-18 17:00: 'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia (Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn))

2025-02-24 13:00: A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic (Justine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-02-25 17:00: Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained (Ann Kelly (University of Oxford))

2025-03-03 13:00: 'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004 (Isobel Newby (University of Leeds))

2025-03-04 17:00: Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts (Anuj Misra (Freie Universität Berlin))

2025-03-10 13:00: Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623 (Alexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-03-11 17:00: How TV made 'The Naked Ape' (Miles Kempton (Christ's College))

2025-03-17 13:00: Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens (Jim Endersby (University of Sussex))

2025-03-18 17:00: What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images (Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark))

2025-05-12 13:00: 'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska (Ben Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2025-05-19 13:00: Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica (Eleanor Stephenson (Faculty of History))

2025-05-26 13:00: Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900 (Katherine Enright (Faculty of History))

2025-05-30 14:30: TheCultureLab (Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL))

2025-06-02 13:00: Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala (Christian Stenz (Heidelberg University))

2025-06-09 13:00: Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones? (Chris Preston)

2025-06-13 15:30: Science advice under uncertainty (Amy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2025-10-13 13:00:  Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930–1940 (Mika Hyman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-10-14 17:00: Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction (Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex))

2025-10-20 13:00: Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies (Ewa Zakrzewska (European University Institute))

2025-10-21 17:00: Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern British life writing (Martha McGill (Faculty of English))

2025-10-27 13:00: Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (Bronte Evans Rayward (Department of Geography))

2025-10-28 17:00: The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s (Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland))

2025-10-31 15:30: Phenomenological control in the laboratory (Zoltan Dienes (University of Sussex))

2025-11-03 13:00: Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation (Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton))

2025-11-04 17:00: Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610 (Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki))

2025-11-10 13:00: Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections (Maya Juman (Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2025-11-11 17:00: Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore (Timothy Sim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-11-17 13:00: Who was Henslow? (Kate Hooper (Independent Researcher))

2025-11-18 17:00: Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts (Róisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland))

2025-11-21 11:00: Vaccine communication and policy (Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia))

2025-11-24 13:00: Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture (Liz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-11-25 17:00: Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain (Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh))

2025-11-28 11:00: 'Behavioural epidemiology': what triggers and enables large-scale behavioural change? (Oliver Vitouch (University of Klagenfurt, Austria))

2025-12-01 13:00: Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil (Thomas Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-12-02 17:00: A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality (Mark Jenner (University of York))

2026-02-02 13:00: Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656) (Eszter Csillag (Hong Kong Baptist University))

2026-02-03 17:00: Experimenting on/with eels: colonial space and electric knowledge construction in the 18th century (Soile Ylivuori (University of Helsinki))

2026-02-09 13:00: Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium (Brad Scott (Queen Mary University of London))

2026-02-10 17:00: Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China (Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2026-02-17 17:00: Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria (Chidi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka))

2026-02-23 13:00: The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature (Hilbrand Wouters (University of Konstanz))

2026-02-24 17:00: Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge (Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford))

2026-03-02 13:00: Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Emily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens))

2026-03-03 17:00: How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning (Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) )

2026-03-09 13:00: Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections (Kimberley Glassman (Fitzwilliam Museum))

2026-03-10 17:00: Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770–1800) (Maria Florutau (Uppsala University))

2026-03-16 13:00: Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection (Alice Wickenden (Faculty of English))

2026-03-17 15:00: The birth of scientific anti-racism (Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz))