Richard Staley

Name:	Richard Staley
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
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Talks given by Richard Staley

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• Relativity, microphysics, and the senses of the sciences

Talks organised by Richard Staley

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• Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene
• Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality
• Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making
• Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation
• Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea
• Learning (to learn) from others
• When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer
• Epistemic bunkers
• The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927
• 'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928–1955
• On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences
• Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums
• Causal explanation and revealed preferences
• Physical computations are idealisations
• Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe
• Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold
• Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk
• The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world
• Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s
• Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues
• Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
• The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time
• 'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI
• The science of childhood: postcolonial development in India, 1950s
• Making a name in mid-century mathematics: individuals, institutions and the open secret of Nicolas Bourbaki
• Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS
• How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back
• Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory
• A political history of apolitical science
• Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools
• Decolonising the history of science curriculum
• The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)
• 'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation
• Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean
• A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in northeast China after the Communist Revolution
• How US science moved west: Boulder, Colorado and the development of US space sciences in mid-20th century America
• Before Trump: the neoliberal–illiberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
• Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda
• Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket
• People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China
• Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept
• The structure of structure: how Kuhn establishes that science requires historical explanation
• Neuro-empire: rise of a medical-scientific discipline in modern Japan
• A struggle for the Soviet future: the birth of scientific forecasting in the Soviet Union
• German émigré scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India
• Listening to scientists' stories: using the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' archive
• Shifting formats, changing priorities in the modern Chinese materia medica genre: from Zhao Yuhuang's single items to drugs in acupuncture channels
• The Anthropocene seen by the Anopheles: fighting malarial mosquitoes with chemicals in modern China, 1910s–1960s
• Disappearing big cats and multiplying man-eaters in the Indian Anthropocene
• 'The Grammar of the Semi-Exact Sciences': Norbert Wiener in India, 1955–1956
• The greening alliance: environment, development and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Imaging the cytoskeleton – re-defining a biological entity with fluorescent antibodies
• A science in translation: homoeopathy in colonial Bengal
• A controlled environment: phytotrons, Cold War life science, and the making of the experimental plant
• Comparative uncertainties: comparing comparisons in anthropology and animal behaviour science
• Images as artefacts: film, photography and repatriation in Kenya
• The pre-history of peer review: refereeing practices at the Royal Society
• Unveiling the world? Aerial photographs and the social sciences in interwar France
• Builders of the vision
• 'A day of comparatively small things': spatial anxiety in the high British Empire
• Brainwashing the cybernetic subject: The Ipcress File and fantasies of interrogation in the 1960s
• The impact of machines
• Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film
• Intolerant bodies: on biological individuality and writing with scientists
• The beauty of science without the science of beauty
• Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the 19th century
• Bypassing the brave new world: reporting transgenic mice in the early 1980s
• Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics
• The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909
• From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890–1925
• Performing and mediating science on television
• The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty
• Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)
• The epidemiologist as culture hero: visualising humanity in the age of 'the next pandemic'
• The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory
• Cause, causatives and theories of causation
• 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' – the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films
• The rationality of science in relation to its history
• Colour me alchemical, or: form, execution and function in alchemical illustrations
• Poster display tactics as photographic arguments
• Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence
• Indecent science: religion, science and movie censorship, 1930–1968
• Age of iron, age of gold: the Thirty Years War, the German reformed diaspora, and the golden age of the Dutch universities
• Visual STS
• New perspectives on the Great Exhibition
• Brownian motion pictures
• Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933–1972
• Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
• A sociology of algorithms: high-frequency trading and the shaping of markets
• X-rayed maize and mutant marigolds: a history of early plant biotechnologies
• 'The monster'? The British popular press and nuclear culture, 1945–1960s
• Acid fallout: the 1980s US scientific and political debates on the atmospheric transport of sulphur dioxide
• Framing the nuclear: the psychology of British governmental nuclear decision making