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A personal list of talks.

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Dr Barry Dixon. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

10 upcoming talks and 2206 talks in the archive.

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

UserMichael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

UserKatarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

UserAna Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lifecycle of a constant: e

UserAlistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where inattention pays

UserJingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

UserMarissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lineages as evolving processes

UserJohn Dupré (University of Exeter).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPaul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

UserMichael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

UserFrederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

UserElisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

UserTom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

UserFabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserPaula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

UserManabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

UserNaftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

UserOsiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

UserNader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

UserCatherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

UserHyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning (to learn) from others

UserRichard Moore (University of Warwick).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the nonexistence of moralometers

UserEric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

UserWayne Soon (Vassar College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

UserAxel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

UserKatherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777

UserProfessor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

UserDaniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

UserTracey Loughran (University of Essex).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037

UserProfessor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

UserMinakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

UserEleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

UserAyah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

UserJaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

UserKate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

UserProfessor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

UserMarieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

UserMathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

UserRyan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

UserJacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

UserGuido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657

UserProfessor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

UserGloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

UserProfessor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

UserMaree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427

UserProfessor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

UserCharlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMaría M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseThe Theatre, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

UserSara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

UserChris Otter (Ohio State University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857

UserProfessor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

UserElla Larsson (University of Westminster).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

UserMonique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

UserFranziska Holt (University of York).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

UserHarun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

UserChristoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Futures

UserJenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

World models and intuition in the 1970s

UserSarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic

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UserDr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

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UserDr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

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UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

UserEllen Fridland (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

UserDavid Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

UserAnna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

UserChris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

UserLena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserProfessor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Househttps://youtu.be/keEFh3za-Eo.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

UserChiara Ambrosio (University College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

UserKourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

UserJack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

UserElizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

UserAlexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

UserAdrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

UserJosie Gill (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

UserMackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

UserPolly Mitchell (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYou tube link to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 00:00-00:01

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

UserAmir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How does process tracing work?

UserChristopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

UserAriane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

UserRana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

UserSee description.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

UserMax Long (Faculty of History).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

UserKristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

UserHaixin Dang (University of Leeds).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

UserLeah DeVun (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

UserLeonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

UserVictoria Lee (Ohio University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

UserMiles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserJim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from case studies

UserPetri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

UserKaren Harvey (University of Birmingham).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science and speculation

UserAdrian Currie (University of Exeter).

HouseTeams.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

UserAnna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

UserCatarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

ClockFriday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserCarina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

UserDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Beginnings of Global Opera

UserDr Benjamin Walton, Faculty of Music, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserSir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South Asia

UserDr Anjali B. Datta, Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserLaura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume

UserDr William Tullett, Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

UserJonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an enslaved Melanesian

UserDr Anthony Pickles, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

UserMarta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

UserProfessor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

A Journey into Rap Studies: from London’s hip-hop scenes to grimey Englishness

UserDr Richard Bramwell, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2020, 17:45-19:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

UserSusanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

UserAmy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Content of Style - What makes Classical Greek Art 'Classical'?

UserProfessor Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

UserProfessor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

UserProfessor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

UserProfessor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

*CANCELLED* Economic Transformation and the Proliferation of Gambling in the Western Pacific

UserDr Anthony Pickles, Bye-Fellow, Wolfson College, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Habitual Sophia? Retaining one’s ability to learn from within aach lay-professional encounter

UserProfessor Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserRuth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

UserJenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Philosophers against Idleness

UserProfessor Brian O’Connor, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, and University College Dublin.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

India: An idiosycratic democracy

UserDr David Washbrook, Trinity College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2019, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockFriday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Politics Gone Missing

UserDr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens' College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

UserAnna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West Germany

UserDr Bianca Gaudenzi, Wolfson College, Cambridge and German Historical Institute, Rome.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

UserA V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology

UserDr Matei Candea (Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

How Churchill Waged War

UserMr Allen Packwood, OBE, FRHistS (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

UserAgnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern Yorkists

UserDr Richard Stacey (University of Glasgow).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?

UserProfessor Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

UserJack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseUniversity Museum of Zoology.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

UserMary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

UserMatt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Anglosphere Tradition in British Politics

UserProfessor Michael Kenny (Professor of Public Policy, POLIS, and inaugural director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge).

HouseDining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

UserTal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

UserKatie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Profitable Labour? Learning Disability and Labour Markets in Modern Britain

UserDr Lucy Delap (Murray Edwards College & Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

UserProfessor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Re-membering Philologia: the past, present and future of an academic practice

UserProfessor Sylvia Adamson (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics & Literary History, University of Sheffield).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Academic Citizenship and the Future University

UserDr Alison Wood (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

This lecture has been cancelled

UserProfessor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Role of Water in Venetian Architecture

UserProfessor Deborah Howard (Professor Emerita of Architectural History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John’s College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

UserDr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Synaesthesia & Art - Dance of Light

UserRhea Quien (Artist and Art Educator, Cambridge) and Professor Jamie Ward (Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sussex).

HouseDining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2018, 17:15-19:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Many Molyneux Questions

UserJonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

CANCELLED ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream

UserDr Lotte Reinbold (Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story

UserProfessor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Who is my neighbour?': Stories of alms-seeking in early modern England

UserDr Rebecca Tomlin (CRASSH/Faculty of English, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 June 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Death by Celibacy, or the Medieval Priest's Dilemma

UserDr Katherine Harvey (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Labour and the Left in the 1980s: A reassessment

UserDr Jonathan Davis (Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAndreas Malm (Lund University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

UserAgnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Adano: Sicily, occupation literature and the American century

UserProfessor Robert Gordon (MML & Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge) .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Debate over Feature Film History

UserProfessor Vivian Bickford Smith (University of Stellenbosch and University of Cape Town).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA.

ClockFriday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

UserProfessor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Systems for Big Data Applications:Revolutionising personal computing

UserNoa Zilberman, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Computer Science Department / Wolfson College JRF.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

What is the History of the Book?

UserProfessor James Raven (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Bibliographical History, University of Essex; Fellow of Magdalene College and Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

UserMartin Allen, Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Strong Bonds, Affective Labour: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Work of History

UserDr Richard A. McKay (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship

UserProfessor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

UserMariam Thalos (University of Utah).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Alas, poor Yorick!': Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" after 250 years'

UserDr Mary Newbould (Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Roland the Hero

UserJohn DuVal, James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor, University of Arkansas.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Quotation and the Law

UserProfessor Lionel Bently (Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Donald Trump: The Making of a World View

UserProfessor Brendan Simms (Fellow of Peterhouse and Professor in the History of International Relations at POLIS).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2018, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive

UserProfessor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship in the First World War

UserProfessor Daniela L. Caglioti (University of Naples ‘Federico II’).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 17:45-19:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept

UserJaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Boy and The Brothers: The story of a young Londoner in the service of higher powers

UserMr Shezad Dawood (Artist and Research Fellow in Experimental Media, University of Westminster).

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Cambridge University, Past and Present'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr B D Cox, Praelector, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

UserProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

UserAdrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Ways of Reading, Looking, and Imagining: Contemporary Fiction and Its Optics'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Diane Leblond, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Lectrice at Gonville & Caius College..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny

UserProfessor Caroline van Eck (Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The Japanese Mingei Movement and the art of Katazome'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMiles Dodd, MA (Oxon), Emeritus Professor Nihon University, Tokyo .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'An idea whose time has come?' Tracing the history of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-201

User Dr Peter Sloman (Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Churchill College, Cambridge) .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine

UserProfessor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Honouring Giulio Regeni: a plea for research in risky environments'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Hugo Leal, CRASSH Researcher - 'Conspiracy and Democracy'; College Research Associate Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Boxes with false bottoms? The challenge presented by abstract key words in English

UserProfessor Alan Durant (School of Law, Middlesex University London).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2017, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

UserProfessor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Cryptocurrency and BLOCKCHAIN – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserGarrick Hileman, Senior Research Associate, Wolfson College, Judge Business School.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

UserJacob Stegenga (with Zoë Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Walking through Language – Building Memory Palaces in Virtual Reality'

THis talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Aaron Ralby, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Italian, Male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regime

UserProfessor Giulia Albanese (Department of History, University of Padua, Italy).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Education, Spaces, Meanings: A Cultural Political Economy Account of the Role of Higher Education in Building Regions in Latin America'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserAliandra Lazzari Barlete, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Finance, Power and Globalisation: German Bankers and the Rise of International Banking in China (1885-1919)'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserGhassan Moazzin, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany

UserProfessor Sir Richard Evans, FBA (President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College, London).

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'I have sought to serve German art with all my strength': Impressionism and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMary-Ann Middelkoop, Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College; PhD Candidate in the Faculty of History..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'"Chantez la vie, l'amour, et la mort": the French 'chanson' in context'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserHenri Schmitt, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, Obedience, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in a world after Kant

UserRuth Jackson (Research Fellow, CRASSH and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 30 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

‘The Right to do what one wants’: Ancient democratic conception of freedom and its reception in Plato and the Stoics

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Bernard Collette, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College Professeur agrégé, Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism

UserBoyd Brogan (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Captured and Alive: War satire, time and space

UserJane Chapman (Lincoln University; College Research Associate, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserLissa Roberts (University of Twente).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Partisanship, petitioning, and deliberation in British politics, c. 1689-1750'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Philip Loft, College Research Associate, Wolfson College; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of History.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Poetry and memory: investigating the value of the memorised poem'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Debbie Pullinger, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Privacy and Tabloid Journalism in the UK: A shifting landscape

UserTanya Aplin (The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature

UserProfessor Karen Coats (Illinois State University), Professor Rosalind Ridley (University of Cambridge).

HouseMAB G08/G09, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

ClockSaturday 18 March 2017, 09:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Riverscapes of the Amazonian Wauja people'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Christopher Ball, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA and Visiting Research to Dept of Anthropology and Wolfson College..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Pardoner's Passing and How it Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts

UserDr Alex da Costa (University Lecturer at the Faculty of English; Fellow of Newnham College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2017, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

UserProfessor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Are the dons still a self-governing community of Scholars?'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserGraham Allen, Vice-President of Wolfson, and former Academic Secretary of the University of Cambridge .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Foreign Office, Margaret Thatcher and South Africa, 1979-90

UserProfessor Patrick Salmon (Chief Historian, Foreign and Commonwealth Office).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Courts, Constitution and Democracy in Bangladesh'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Adeeba Aziz Khan, Centre of South Asian Studies and Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'"All that is solid melts into air": Burne-Jones and the Matter of History'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Alison Syme, Associate Professor of Modern Art History, University of Toronto.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One

UserDr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Whoah! We're going to Ibiza!' Know your rights as an air traveler

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMarianne Hundahl Frandsen, PhD Fellow, Aalborg University, Visiting Student, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and Wolfson College .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Scholarly publication in the seventeenth century: Oxford, Cambridge and the 'learned press'

UserDr Gordon Johnson (Honorary Fellow and Former President, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Chasing Cuckoos'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserToby Smith, Senior Member, Wolfson College and Artist in Residence 2015/2016 at the University of Cambridge Conservation Institute.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Ideal Self: Flattery in Julius Caesar

UserDr Maria Sequeira Mendes (Beaufort Visiting Fellow, St John's College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Anything but Idle: Reading and Editing the Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr R L Abrahamson, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland University College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Trade unions and the British tradition of pluralism

UserDr Alastair Reid (Fellow, Girton College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Editing Shakespeare in Translation'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Julia Paraizs, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Junior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Big Cats and the City: building evidence against out-of-place beasts in India'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserNayanika Mathur, British Academy postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral research fellow on the project 'Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and Internet Research'.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What makes econophysics distinctive?

UserJames Weatherall (University of California, Irvine).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The afterlives of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery; or, 'excavating' in the archives'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Corinne Duhig, Panel Tutor for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education; Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; College Research Associate, Wolfson College Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserFrieda Midgley, Archivist, Kettle's Yard and Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some Challenges Explored'

UserDr Helen Roche (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

UserProfessor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The Influence of Flavius Josephus upon Christian Art'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Gohei Hata, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Professor (retired) of Tama Art University, Japan.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

UserLeah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Between Perversity and 'Good Practice': Same-sex Schoolgirl Intimacy in Colonial Korea'

this talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Samuel Perry, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Humanities and the Machine'

UserProfessor Steven Connor (Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Remembering the Gold Era: the hidden heritage of Central Otago’s gold rush'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Lloyd Carpenter, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Lecturer in Māori Studies, Lincoln University, New Zealand .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Commemorating the First World War a 100 Years on in Popular and Public History'

UserDr Deborah Thom (Robinson College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2016, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

UserProfessor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Can Journalism keep up with the Kardashians?

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is a talk postponed from earlier in the term.

UserShayne Currie, Managing Editor of the 'New Zealand Herald' and Visiting Press Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Gowns, squares, and bulldogs: Proctors and Constables in the University of Cambridge

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDavid Goode, Senior Proctor of the University of Cambridge, and Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Power of Families in Preventing Radicalization -- a bottom up Security Strategy'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Edit Schlaffer, Founder of Women without Borders.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Migration and asylum in the UK: Catholic perspectives and contributions'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Elif Cetin, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Postdoctoral Researcher at The Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'A Brief History of Demons: Encounters with the Supernatural in Body and Soul'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Louise Wilson, Affiliated Research Scholar Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Rachel G. Hoffman, Fellow in History of King’s College, Research Fellow on Conspiracy and Democracy, CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Hong Kong Literature after 1989: A Very Short Introduction'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Nim-yan Wong, Associate Professor Chinese University of Hong Kong; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Revisiting Edward Carson'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Eugenio F. Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Cambridge and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Coffee with Scientists

How to study fire

UserJenni Sidey (Research Associate, Department of Engineering).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Coffee with Scientists

The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity

UserMurray Shanahan (Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The German Heraclitus: Exploring the esoteric habitus of Oswald Spengler'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserAndrew Presti, PhD candidate, Wolfson College and Department of German and Dutch.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'"A Plague on Both Your Houses": coping with epidemic disease in early modern Tuscany'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor John Henderson, Fellow, Wolfson College; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Coffee with Scientists

How should scientists quantify academic value?

UserAlecia Carter (Research Fellow, Churchill College and Department of Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Builders of the vision

UserDaniel Cardoso Llach (Carnegie Mellon University/Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The Significance of Design: how design can change your future'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserJayné Franck, PhD Candidate, Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First World War

UserHannah Malone, Lumley Junior Research Fellow, Magdalene College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 17:45-19:15

Coffee with Scientists

Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science

UserSteve Oliver (Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry; Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

UserOrganisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 09:00-17:45

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur'an."

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Paul Shore, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Regina and Visiting College Research Associate at Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Advertising the Future in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserBianca Gaudenzi, CRA Wolfson College and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

UserProfessor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The River Ganges running red: reversing the divine'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserCleo Roberts, Visiting Research Associate, Wolfson College and Visiting student at the centre of South Asian studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Antislavery and Empire: Paradoxes of Liberation in the Western Indian Ocean'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserAssociate Professor Matthew S. Hopper, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies, Wolfson College and Centre of African Studies.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Cultural Narratives of Dementia and Care in Post-War Japan'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Katsura Sako, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College Associate Professor, Keio University (Japan).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease

UserProfessor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Oriental Plague": Sinophobias Compared

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Christos Lynteris, Senior Research Associate/ERC PI, CRASSH .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?

UserSir David King (Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Tuna, Geopolitics and the Indian Ocean'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Colin Barnes, POLIS and Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

London in the Fog: The Artistic Response to Air Pollution

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Christine L Corton, Wolfson College Senior Member .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 17:45-19:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900

UserTatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence

UserProfessor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The impact of machines

UserHenry K. Miller (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

A Fossil Feast: 31 December 1853, Sydenham Park, London

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Becky Lewis, Assistant Professor Emerita University of South Carolina; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation

UserEmily Adlam (Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Male memory, female subject: writing Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft '

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserJanet Todd, Professor emerita, University of Aberdeen and Hon Fellow of Newnham College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Humanitarian Action in Armed Conflict'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Thomas Forster, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, International Law..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Professor and the Ambassador - the Peel Commission on Palestine, 1937 and its aftermath

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMr. George W. Liebmann, Senior Academic Visitor Wolfson College and Sir Henry Rumbold,Bt, grandson of Sir Horace Rumbold,Bt .......due.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 17:45-19:15

Early Science and Medicine

Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam

This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserLiana Saif (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs

UserProfessor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Social Media, African Chiefs and New Experiments in Public Administration in Kenya

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Duncan Omanga, Centre for African Studies and Wolfson Visiting Fellow 2015/16 .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Evolved and Evolving 'Mind' of the American South ?

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserKevin Lewis, Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina and visiting fellow Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The cultural self-fashioning of Frederick the Great'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Tim Blanning FBA, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 17:45-19:15

Coffee with Scientists

Science education

UserEugene Kang (Pusan University) and Keith Taber (Education, Cambridge).

HouseBoard Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 04 December 2015, 14:30-16:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Making Sense of Assassinations'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, postdoctoral research fellow at CRASSH, .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Social and Cultural Translation of the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern England'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Naomi Tadmor, Lancaster University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

‘Ted Hughes: Ecopoet and Environmentalist’

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Yvonne Reddick, University of Central Lancashire and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Stirbitch: Performing the Vanished Polis

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr.Michael Hrebeniak, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade

UserSarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Curriculum confrontation: the perils of reviewing upper secondary education in the European Schools"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Sandra Leaton Gray, Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute of Education and Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

In the steps of the crusaders: heritage, poltiics, experience

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"English medieval romance in the age of print"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Jordi Sanchez Marti, Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Telling What Happened;. Shackleton's Endurance Expedition:Narratives and Narrators

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Meredith Hooper, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Polar Institute.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Early Science and Medicine

On the political use of physiognomy around 1500

This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserJoseph Ziegler (University of Haifa).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Approaching William Blake's Fourfold Vision through Cognitive Theory and Enlightenment Philosophy"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserSiri Vevle, PhD Candidate at University of Bergen and Visiting Scholar Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

John Aubrey, My Own Life, an experiment in biography

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Ruth Scurr ( Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Director of Studies in Human, Social).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Coffee with Scientists

A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton

UserMargaret Ann Goldstein (Baylor College of Medicine, and Clare Hall).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Simulating scientific merit dynamics

UserShahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"A question of temperament": Identifying Musical Tones

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Dan Tidhar, College Research Associate, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Three Standing Figures - from stone, to studio, to the open air

this talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Jenny Powell, Senior Curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Coffee with Scientists

Making archaeological knowledge

UserAlison Wylie (University of Washington, and Durham University) and John Robb (Archaeology, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"How Britain missed its chance to bring democracy to Libya"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserRichard Synge, Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Moving pictures, moving stories: what archive films reveal

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Kevin Greenbank, Archivist and Administrator, CU Centre of South Asian Studies; Tutor, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison

Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar

UserFloris Cohen (Utrecht University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Mixed feelings. Norwegian attitudes to the Britons, 1814-1914."

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Roald Berg, University of Stavanger and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘Th’emprenting of hir consolacioun’: persuasive speech and resistant listeners in ‘The Franklin’s Tale’

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

HPS History Workshop

Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain

UserBrandon Jackson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Creation, Collaboration, Contemplation: Academic Libraries and the Digital Revolution

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMeg Westbury, Librarian, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Hiroshima: under the bomb 70 years on

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Alan Marcus, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Chair in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen.

HouseGatsby Room, W block, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Metaphor

NOTE: this talk is not on the usual day/time of Humanities Society talks but on Thursday 4th June from 16.30.

UserIrving Massey, Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) of French, University at Buffalo; former Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 16:30-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Living Conditions in Ancient Egyptian Settlements and the Place occupied by the Non-Elite Population

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Delphine Driaux, Fernand Braudel-IFER Post-doctoral Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Wolfon College Visiting Scholar.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Laura Zucconi, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Associate Professor ,Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2015, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

What is going on in Portugal? A Critical Reflection of the Political Consequences of Austerity

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserTiago Carvalho, Ph.D. Candidate, Wolfson College and Department of Sociology.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Robert Koepp, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Illinois College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Trust and Power in the Art Market: A Machiavellian World?"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Anna Dempster, CRA Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventure.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserBjørn L. Basberg, Professor in Economic History, Norwegian School of Economics; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Visiting Scholar, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata

UserJonnie Penn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Aron’s political antinomies and the constitution of international order.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserVítor Ramon-Fernandes Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Lusíada University of Lisbon and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘Trade (mark) wars, 1860-1920: sweatshops, the retail trade and the meaning of trade marks.’

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Jennifer Davis, Fellow, Wolfson College; Member, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

John Clare: The Nature of Writing

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserHetty Saunders, M.Phil student, Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy

UserSeb Falk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Rock legends: naming planets

UserPaul Murdin, Wolfson College and Institute of Astronomy.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Rock legends: naming planets

UserPaul Murdin, Wolfson College and Institute of Astronomy.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Churchill and the Islamic World

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Warren Dockter, Research Fellow Clare Hall.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Experiences of a female lawyer in Kuwait

UserMs Bashayer Al Majed, Ph.D Student, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909

UserPatrick Ellis (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Paradise Lost? How the Internet has changed

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserJohn Naughton, Vice-president of Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Muslims under Nazi rule, 1941-1945

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr David Motadel, Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Newtonian politics

UserJason Grier (York University, Canada).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

How to read the Confessions of Augustine

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserCatherine Conybeare Professor of Classics, Bryn Mawr College Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

London Bridge in the late fifteenth century: ‘comparable in itself to a little city’?

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Justin Colson, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Ancient Historians in Context: The Curious Case of Diodorus

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserCharles Muntz, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

UserProfessor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

UserClaire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Fitzwilliam Museum: A Short History

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMargaret Greeves, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

UserChristian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Ibsen's women - on and off the stage

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Robert Amundsen, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Aesthetics as Intrinsic to Sustainable Design: Architectural Education Projects From Around the World

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMarga Jann, RIBA, AIA, DPUC, Chartered Architect, Member Lucy Cavendish College & Wolfson College (FMR Visiting Fellow LCC), Visiting Researcher Sociology Dept .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics

UserJonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Hinduism': the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our world

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Julius Lipner, Emeritus Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion, Fellow of Clare Hall.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)

UserSophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

UserClare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Picturing Identities: A Participatory Visual Project with Young Italian migrants to the UK

UserAnna Bagnoli, Fellow and Tutor at Wolson College, Associate Researcher at Sociology Department.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Israel and Antisemitism

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. David Feldman, Birkbeck London, Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

When Britons were slaves: Barbary slavery and its consequences

UserJustin Meggitt, University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Institute of Continuing Education, Fellow of Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Opening of 'The Royal Academy at Wolfson'

This talk is open to the public

UserAnthony Green R.A..

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 18:30-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Honour of Sharing : the Sharing of Honour

UserAdriana Alexander, B.A., PGCert, DPSI - Independent Researcher.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The oldest illustrated book in Cambridge - a reconsideration of the St Augustine Gospels

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Nigel Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

‘Triumph of the Real: From The Communist Manifesto to Jason Bourne’

UserDr David Hickman - Senior lecturer in film & television production Department of Theatre, Film & Television University of York and VF Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing It

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserHugh Gault, biographer and independent researcher.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston

UserSteve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: The Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester

UserProfessor Ann Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept. of English.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Religion and Humour: The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice in Egyptian Cartoons

This talk is open to the public

UserProfessor Gabriel M. Rosenbaum - Dept. of Arabic Language and Literature,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director, The Israeli Academic Center in Cairo and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'

UserVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Please note change of date and time

UserEleanor Knox (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history

Please note change of date

UserTimothy Rees Jones (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Ancient Hints for a Modern Method of Studying Consciousness

UserVarun Khanna - Wolfson College member, PhD student in Consciousness.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Does Westminster Still Represent the Westminster Model ?

UserProfessor Gerd Strohmeier Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Technische Universität Chemnitz.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy

UserEmma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Visual STS

UserPeter Galison (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern Science

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserDr Alexi Baker - CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Adaptations and Illustrations of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy

UserDr Mary Newbould, Wolfson College and Bowman Supervisor in English.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficient

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserDr Nick Saville - Director of the Research and Validation Group, Cambridge English Language Assessment.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Brownian motion pictures

UserCharlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Farewell to content

UserKim Sterelny (Australian National University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Pickwick in the Trenches: Dickens and Dickensians in the Great War

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserProfessor Jerry White - Birkbeck College, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The nightingales won’t let you sleep in Platres'. Re-visiting the Greek Past

This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and may be podcast

UserProf. Robin Cormack, Prof. Emeritus in the History of Art, London University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The realist stance

Note unusual day and time

UserAnjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The colonial roots of German folklore studies, 1850s-1930s

UserDr Christof Dejung, Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) for Modern History at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Erasmus Darwin: Poet of Progress

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserDr Patricia Fara - Clare College & Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

UserProfessor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 13:00-14:15

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Nature, culture and philosophy

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HousePeterhouse Lecture Theatre, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 20 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

UserDr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Representationalism and pragmatism

UserPiotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Forty years of food

UserRay Palmer, Executive Chef, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance Italy

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Mary Laven, Jesus College Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2014, 17:45-19:15

The War Philosophers: How much were our ideas shaped by war?

UserIain King, CBE. Fellow, Wolfson College Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. J.Lee Thompson, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

UserCaitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Climate Change and Conspiracy Theory

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

UserProf. David Runciman, POLIS & Trinity Hall.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserGabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is empathy? A genealogical account

UserRiana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation

POSTPONED

UserAdrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Roman tradition and the rebirth of public powers in Europe

UserSpyridon Flogaitis, Visiting Professor, Wolfson College; Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science (Lent and Easter Terms 2013).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Further Thoughts on the Undivided Past

This talk is public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Sir David Cannadine, Princeton and School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Bill Lubenow Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College & The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The science of horror: post-traumatic stress in children and adolescents

UserRichard Meiser-Stedman, Clinical Psychologist & MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Ben Griffin, Girton College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 17:45-19:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The prospects for Darwinian imperialism

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Archaeology and the trade of the port of Suakin, Sudan

UserLaurence Smith, Wolfson CRA and Library Assistant; Research Fellow, McDonald Institute.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rogue Judges - Rebels or Reformers? The Case of Sir Henry McCardie

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Tony Lentin, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Reforming teaching: a social cognitive perspective

UserSteven Watson, University lecturer in Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, member of Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Neoliberalism, Socialism, and the Politics of Knowledge

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Suvi Salmenniemi, University of Turku and CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running

A V HILL LECTURE

UserProfessor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The First Bohemians: the Artists of Eighteenth-Century Covent Garden

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Vic Gatrell, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Modern British History, University of Essex .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Societies in Orbit: Historicizing the European Space Age, 1942-1972

UserAlexander Geppert, Emmy Noether Research Group Director Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Freie Universität Berlin".

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The True Function of Education'

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserPhilip Allott, Emeritus Professor of International Public Law, Fellow of Trinity College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action

UserDr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is evidence?

UserMatt Penfold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Human nature: from theory to practice

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reform, Revolution, Reaction. Land and the indigenous question in Allende's Chile.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Dan Carter, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Looking Inside the Box, Thinking Outside the Box: Exhibiting Fiji in Cambridge

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Lucie Carreau, Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2014, 17:45-19:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The medicalisation of love

UserBrian Earp (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Propensities and pragmatism

UserMauricio Suarez (Complutense University of Madrid).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Radical Sisters: Four Victorian Women

UserCharles Jones, Emeritus Reader in International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies; Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College; Director, Centre of Latin American Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the Gaze

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr David Taylor, Toronto University & Visiting Fellow CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 17:45-19:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The multiple inventions of transgenic mice

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

UserOrganised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

HouseLecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 09:30-17:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

To Be or Not to Be: British Approaches towards Europe in the Postwar World

UserBenjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, Associate Professor of History, University of Arkansas, and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Planning for Survival in the Cold War

This talk is open to the public

UserDr Donald Wilson, Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

CANCELLED

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

“Learning and the development of musical expertise”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mermaids, Cables and the Deep Sea: the telegraphic imagery in the 19th century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserClare Pettitt, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture, Kings College London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Legacies of Forced Migration: Attending to History and Discourse

UserStephen Ahern, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College (2013-14); Professor of English, Acadia University, Canada.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Visions of Power

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

UserProf. Chris Clark, Faculty of History and St. Catherine's College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Arts, Culture and Education

“Changing attitudes and teaching strategies in music education classrooms to bring out the best in our students and teachers”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Yaroslav Senyshyn, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift

UserRaj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The role of popular Islam in Sudan

UserShadia Taha, Member of Wolfson College, Visiting Scholar McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Calories and Corsets: 2000 years of diets and dieting

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

UserLouise Foxcroft.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Willi Hennig and philosophy

UserCharissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

“Facing the music: An investigation of musicians’ physical and mental responses”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Feudalism in the Medieval West: ‘The Tyranny of a Construct’

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse College and History Faculty).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2013, 17:45-19:15

Arts, Culture and Education

“Transformative music engagement: Making music learning matter”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Susan A. O’Neill, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Reforming Law to deal with banking crises

UserValia Babis, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Ideological Ends of British Imperialism: Decolonisation and the ‘Federal Moment’

This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. It may be podcast.

UserDr Michael Collins, Lecturer in History, UCL.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserMr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Evaluating music creativity through an assessment rubric

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDiana Blom, Ian Stevenson and John Encarnacao.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Individual risk: does it exist?

UserPhil Dawid (Statistical Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's box

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Sir Tony Wrigley, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The joy of gardening

UserPhil Stigwood, Head Gardener, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Arts and Humanities Today: Re-framing the ‘value’ debate

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

UserDr Anna Upchurch, Leeds University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Arts, Culture and Education

A role for the e-portfolio in educating the professional musician (not the music teacher)

UserDiana Blom, University of Western Sydney and Matthew Hitchcock, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

“Motor learning and music teaching”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserClaudio Forcada, Studio Forcada, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 02 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“Musical Lifespans And The Complexities of Adult Learning”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Kari K. Veblen, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“Transmission and Transformation of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong: From School Education to Professional Training”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Bo Wah Leung, Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 18 September 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“The psychological skills of music performance: The missing link in the training of performing artists”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Jon Skidmore, Brigham Young University, Utah.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 11 September 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

‘Mixing It Up: A Blended Approach to Practice-based Research Training in Music’

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserProfessor Paul Draper, Australia, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 1S3.

ClockThursday 04 July 2013, 16:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Rationality in extraordinary science

CANCELLED

UserVashka dos Remedios (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Curriculum design and assessment practices for measuring contemporary musical learning

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDr Diane Hughes, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 16:00-17:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Love Market: How Shopping for Dates Online Affects Women

UserZoe Strimpel, MPhil Candidate, Department of Geography, Gender Studies; Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Sappho, Lincoln, & the American Senate: Picturing Female Desire in the 19th Century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is the last talk of the term.

UserProf. Simon Goldhill Kings College and Director of CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720

UserMichelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Scientific Approaches to Musical Improvisation

UserAndrew Goldman, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Music, Centre for Music & Science; Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice

UserAnna de Bruyckere (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Is French Law Different from English Law?

UserDr Ramu de Bellescize, Wolfson College Visiting Scholar; Reader at the University of Rouen, Faculty of Law; Lawyer, Paris.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Zimbabwe since Independence

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. David Maxwell (Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Faculty of History and Emmanuel College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserCrosbie Smith (University of Kent).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Culture, Politics, identity: how we know who we think we are

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Bruce Berman, Smuts Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Explanation in neuroscience

UserZina Ward (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Derek Mahon's 'Museum Without Walls'

UserDr Karen E Brown, IRCHSS CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Research Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin & University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Some English Scholars in Aleppo,1620-1760

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr.Simon Mills (Wolfson College and CRASSH).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Keeping the World in Mind: Cultural Diversity in Music Education

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington, US.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Every picture tells a story: Using children’s drawings in educational research

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDr Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

BerlusconItaly's Immor(t)ality

UserDr Georg Schedereit, Wolfson Press Fellow 2012, Broadcaster and Commentator at RAI Sender Bozen (South Tyrol/Italy).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Coin Finds and History in Cambridge

This talk is open to the public

UserDr Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2013, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

An Evening with Artist Anthony Green

Reception in the Combination Room from 19:00-20:30

UserAnthony Green & Dr Frank Whitford.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Architecture & Design in Medieval Morocco: the building strategies of the Marinid sultans

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Amira Bennison (Magdalene College & faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 17:45-19:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology

UserEtienne Benson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

What can Teachers Learn from Popular Musicians

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Lucy Green, Institute of Education, University of London .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 1S3.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

New Methods for Teaching Music Composition

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Julio Estrada, Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico (Spanish) .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockWednesday 17 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

The Poetics of Teaching Art

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Patricia Cardona, (INBA-CENIDID) (Spanish) .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Interpersonal Dynamics in Learning Across the Lifespan

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, University of London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Varieties of tacit knowledge

UserTim Rogan (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The "Giants" of Ancient Peru: Secrets of the Moche Royal Court (AD 200-800)

UserTrisha Biers, Division of Archaeology, PhD Candidate; Wolfson College Junior Member.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Art, Empire, and Revolution: the Lives of Constance and Casimir Markievicz

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Lauren Arrington CRASSH and Liverpool University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges

UserMinwoo Seo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen and his "Diary of a Man in Despair": a conservative rebel in Hitler's Germany

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Sir Richard Evans ( President Wolfson College & Regius Professor of History, Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College (note change of venue).

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:45-19:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Teaching Music to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding and Perspectives

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Ryan Hourigan, Ball State University, US .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Not Just Old Bones: The Birth of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology in the UK

UserDr Corinne Duhig, Wolfson College Research Associate; Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Islanded: the British Empire and Sri Lanka

This talk is open to the public

UserSujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire

UserDr Liang Cai, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas; Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Aftermath of War: Iraq Ten Years On

This talk is open to the public

UserDr. Glen Rangwala (Trinity College and POLIS).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Globalization and Music Education

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Jose Luis Arostegui, University of Granada, Spain .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Ambassadorial Housekeeping in Paris During 1762-1763

UserDr Julia E Poole FSA, Senior Member of Wolfson College; Formerly Keeper of Applied Art, Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Best Seat in the House: viewing Greek history through its theatre

This talk is open to the public

UserDr Michael C. Scott ( Darwin College, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

UserDr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Selection and maximization

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Britain, Modernity and the Change of Historical Consciousness in Korea, 1960-2000

UserProfessor Young-Suk Lee, Professor of Gwangju University and Visiting fellow at Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Brains, Science, and Human Nature

This talk is open to the public

UserProfessor Simon Blackburn (Fellow of Trinity College and research professor UNC Chapel Hill).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Common sense and phrenology

UserSean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Historicising Islamic Extremism in the Punjab

This talk is open to the public

UserDr. Tahir Kamran (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Centre of South Asian Studies).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2013, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

UserProfessor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin

UserPatricia Fara (Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Clare College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

More models, more problems?

UserRune Nyrup (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

'I was born in a cat’s cave.' Working with authorship and imagination in early childhood outdoor learning

All welcome! Please contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDeb Wilenski and Kate Cowan.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'

UserMaaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

UserSir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

What is Legal Philosophy?

This talk is open to the public

UserProfessor Matthew Kramer (Faculty of Law, Churchill College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objectivity in psychology – a Kantian perspective

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Bernstorff Reconsidered

UserGeorge Liebmann, Senior Academic Visitor.

HouseCouncil Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Digital Affordances: some implications for the Humanities

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John Naughton (Vice-President and Director of the Press Fellowship, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Aesthetics in science

UserAngela Breitenbach (Philosophy, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Merchants of Culture: the Making of Bestsellers

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John B Thompson (Department of Sociology, Fellow of Jesus College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The Peckham Experiment

UserBoris Jardine (Science Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Owning up to the Past: The KMT's Role in the War Against Japan and the Impact on CCP Legitimacy

UserDr Robert Weatherley, Fellow of Robinson College, Lecturer at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Markets and Merchants in early China

UserProfessor Roel Sterckx, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Clare College .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

UserProfessor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Philosophy Events

Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseLB3, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Polychromy? ... It’s all Greek to me!

UserDr Hannelore Hägele, Senior Member Wolfson College, Independent Scholar.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

UserProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Engaging Educators in the Open Learning Revolution

All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDavid Price, O.B.E (speaker, writer, project manager, strategic advisor, educator).

HouseHomerton College, Mary Allan Building, Bouling 8 & 9, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:45-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Science funding 2.0

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Stories from a Country Practice

UserDr Neville Silverston, MBE FRCGP, Senior Member Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

UserProfessor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

One-to-one pedagogy: exploring supervisory practices in music research training

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserSCOTT HARRISON, Queensland Conservatorium,Griffith University, Australia .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Engagement in different contexts: What enables or restricts the Artist Teacher?

All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserNeryl Jeanneret & Robert Brown, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockTuesday 18 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

Arts, Culture and Education

"Musical Kaleidoscope: Soundings of Enquiry"

UserInaugural music performances from a variety of traditions, featuring Education Faculty staff and students.

HouseAuditorium, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Semantics of Peace in Early Modern England

UserDr Phil Withington, Christ's College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:45-19:15

Arts, Culture and Education

New Media Musicianship: Inspiring practices and implications for music and arts education

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserAlex Ruthmann, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Conceptual change in history of science

UserIrene Goudarouli (University of Athens).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Is the Revisionist View of the Industrial Revolution up for Revision?

UserSebastian Keibek, MPhil student, Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

"Filled with Dissenters?" Cambridgeshire religion in 1851

UserProf David Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Modern Church History.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 June 2012, 17:45-19:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The sciences of subjectivity

Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday

UserSteven Shapin (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Emergence in complexity science

UserLena Zuchowski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Understanding Multiprocessors: Science, Craft, Engineering, or Mathematics?

UserDr Peter Sewell, Reader in Computer Science and EPSRC Leadership Fellow, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Wolfson fellow.

HouseOld Combination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserThomas Schlich (McGill University).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserAlistair Sponsel (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Politics of Austerity

UserProf Andrew Gamble, POLIS.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 17:45-19:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Colonial classification

UserKhadija Carroll La (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

The global biopolitics of female sterilization

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'World Needs New Tendencies in Poeting and Paintry': Representing Speed & Force in 1920s New York

UserDr Michael Hrebeniak, Fellow, Admissions Tutor & Director of Studies in English, Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Ancient Divination Text: Useful for a Modern Scholar?

UserDr Margaret Pearson, Professor Emerita, Skidmore College, USA.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Philosophical issues in research funding allocation

CANCELLED

UserHeather Douglas (University of Waterloo) and Donald Gillies (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockSaturday 28 April 2012, 13:00-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

No Russian Spring?

UserSir Tony Brenton, Former British Ambassador to Russia & Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"

LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912

UserProfessor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Christian and Manichaean Art in Medieval China (8th-14th C AD/CE)

UserProfessor Samuel N.C. Lieu, Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University (Sydney); Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Notes on the Synthesis of Music

UserDr Sam Aaron: Research Associate, Computer Laboratory, Digital Technology Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe

Please note change of speaker and title

UserJosé Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

How to Turn Your Idea into a Commercial Success

UserDr Andrea Cantone, Senior Technology Associate, Cambridge Enterprise.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The History of Racism

UserProfessor Francisco Bethencourt, King's College, London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

To do or not do? When ‘what’ and ‘how’ no longer counts

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserJan Ferm, Artistic Leader, Teacher and Composer, School of Music, Lulec, University of Sweden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

History of Medicine Seminars

A pre-peanut history of food allergy

UserMatthew Smith (University of Strathclyde).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Technological trajectories of hip replacement

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Children take the Lead. Which way to go? What does it mean? What if I don’t like it or understand?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserRuth Sapsed, Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe

UserLeslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Kit Drummers and the Snowball Self: A socio-cultural-psychological perspective on identity and learning realisation

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserGareth Dylan Smith, London Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Close Encounters with Pakistan’s Taliban

UserDr David L. Gosling, Life Member & Former Spalding Fellow, Clare Hall.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

DJs and MCs in the classroom: perhaps a glimpse of justice for disaffected inner-city youth?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserPete Dale, University of Newcastle.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

From Fog to Smog: A Literary Journey

UserDr Christine Corton, Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Foreign policy, fear, and civil society

UserProf Christopher Hill, POLIS.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

UserProfessor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Capturing complexity: An interdisciplinary review of movement capture technologies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences

Please contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend!

UserDr Tyler Denmead, University of Lincoln.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models

UserRahul Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockFriday 13 January 2012, 09:00-17:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Collaborating across genre boundaries - the creative process

All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserRobert Davidson, University of Queensland.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 09 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Retrocausality – what would it take?

Please note change of date

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses

UserProfessor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Russia's Cold War

UserProf Jonathan Haslam, Corpus Christi College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 17:45-19:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Singularist semirealism

UserBence Nanay (University of Antwerp and Peterhouse, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mozart and three Emperors

UserProf Derek Beales, Sidney Sussex College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Linnaeus and the Troglodyte: Natural History and Europe's Encounter with Human Diversity in the Eighteenth Century

UserDr Christina Skott, Director of Studies in History & Tutor, Wolfson College; College Lecturer & Director of Studies in History, Magdalene College; Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Traumatic Brain Injury: What can MRI tell us?

UserVirginia Newcombe, Research Fellow, Wolfson College; NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurocritical Care, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

History and the Financial Crisis

UserProf Martin Daunton, Trinity Hall.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 17:45-19:15

Arts, Culture and Education

'MUSICAL IDENTITIES IN TRANSITION: SOLO-PIANO STUDENTS' ACCOUNTS OF ENTERING THE ACADEMY'

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserKAREN LITTLETON, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900

UserA. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

From “teaching” to “learning”: E-learning has changed the focus of music education. The current situation and the development of digital music education trends in mainland China

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserXie Jiaxing, Professor and Director of the Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS3.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 12:30-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Musicians without borders

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserLaura Hassler, DIRECTOR.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S4.

ClockMonday 26 September 2011, 14:00-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Wallace Stevens: Melodics of *Harmonium*

UserProfessor Simon Jarvis, Faculty of English.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Pierre-Olivier Méthot (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A framework for emergentism(s)

UserOlivier Sartenaer (Université Catholique de Louvain).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Knowledge across Borders: The Early Communication of Evolutionism in China

UserDr. Yang Haiyan, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Humanities at Peking University, Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Victorian Tourists and Climbers in the Alps: Sinking the Sublime

UserAnn C. Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of English. SUNY College at Buffalo, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

South Asian histories of citizenship

UserDr Joya Chatterjii, Trinity College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 17:45-19:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

UserProfessor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Class Remobility- the Reconstruction of Capital Through Musical Fostering

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserYlva Hofvander Trulsson, Academy of Music, Lund University, Sweden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Raving in the classroom: DJing, MCing and the value of the 'dex' for low-achieving and disaffected boys

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserPete Dale, University of Newcastle.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Musical Learning as Social Reconstruction. Music and Origin in the Eyes of Immigrant Parents

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserYlva Hofvander Trulsson, Academy of Music, Lund University, Sweden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Who were the French revolutionaries?

UserProfessor William Doyle, Bristol.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Creative Identity in Music Teaching and Learning

UserClint Randles, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida School of Music.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya

UserRuth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Scripting social interaction: Improvisation, performance, and Western 'art' music

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, Faculty of Music.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Death in Florence: the impact of plague in early modern Italy

UserProf John Henderson, Birkbeck College and Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2011, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

How to write the history of the Persian Empire

UserProf Thomas Harrison, University of Liverpool.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

Co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees.

UserProfessor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history

UserSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

History of Medicine Seminars

Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared

UserPeregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserSpeakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine

Please note change of time and venue

UserWilliam MacLehose (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain

UserNils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Fiction as History

UserProf John Hatcher, Corpus Christi.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape

UserHilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Exploring young people's artistic worlds

UserProfessor Susan O'Neill, Simon fraser University, Vancouver Canada.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The human automatism debate in the late 19th century

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Mapping the Jews of Byzantium

UserNicholas de Lange with Gethin Rees and Alexander Panayotov, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reactions to Neo-Nazi violence in Russia

UserProfessor Caroline Humphrey, King's College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 17:45-19:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Nature and the space of reasons

UserAlexis Papazoglou (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Why is the Enlightenment so difficult to define?

UserProf. John Robertson, Clare College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Politeness and the ethical force of natural history

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Organisms, autonomy and division of labour

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Views of War, 1914 and 1939

UserDr Zara Steiner, Murray Edwards College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Note venue change

UserProfessor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration

UserCarl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Children as Cultural Creators - An Australian Perspective

CONTACT: Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserClare McFadden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 21 July 2010, 16:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Darwinism and Environmentalism

UserBrian Garvey (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Louisa Catherine Adams: Travel, Narrative, and Gender

UserProfessor Michael O'Brien, Jesus College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2010, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMyles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Ten Corrupt Practices at the Longjiang Shipyard: Management Lessons in 16th Century China

UserSally Church (Fellow, Wolfson College, Civilizations in Contact research project, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Wall-E or Terminator? The past, present and future of Machine Learning

Please note unusual venue

UserZoubin Ghahramani (Professor, Department of engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseCouncil Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Quest for Reality

UserAdrian Kent (Fellow, Wolfson College, Reader in Quantum Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Social Mobility in Modern Britain: Myths and Realities

UserProfessor Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Sucking the Blood of Society: The Origins and Evolution of the Byronic Figure

UserEmily Bernard Jackson (Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, English Department, University of Arkansas).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Cultural politics of electioneering

UserDr Jon Lawrence, Emmanuel College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Mexican Chocolate and Chinese Cups: Trade and Artisanal Knowledge in the Early Modern World

UserMeha Priyadarshini, (PhD student, Department of History, Columbia University, New York and Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Illicit printing in the English Revolution, 1643-46

UserDavid Adams (Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library; Visiting Fellow, Darwin College).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Mobile Learning, Creativity and Schools - a New Zealand perspective

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserJohn Eyles. Research and Alliances Leader at Telecom New Zealand, Visiting Fellow at AUT University and Chair of the EON Foundation..

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockTuesday 23 March 2010, 14:00-16:00

Arts, Culture and Education

'Title case’ The Use of 'Tools' for Nurturing and Assessing Creativity

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserDr Kevin Bryon.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2010, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900

UserKathryn Ticehurst (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study

UserNatasha Goldberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Uses of Memory in the Early Middle Ages

UserProf Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 17:45-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Music and Creativity II: Elaborate displays

UserEdward Jessen, Royal College of Music.

HouseRCM London,Outer Parry Room.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 17:15-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry

UserNicholas Teh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge

UserBoris Jardine (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 13:00-14:30

HPS History Workshop

Title to be confirmed

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces

UserNils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Identity, aspirations and motivation in musicians

Admission: free but booking required To book email: c4o@lso.co.uk

UserDr. Don Lebler, Queensland Conservatorium,Griffith University, Brisbane, Rosie Burt-Perkins, Royal College of Music, London, Prof. Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, University of London, Dr. Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, University of London,.

HouseGuildhall School Lecture Recital Room, 17.30-19.30.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-19:30

Arts, Culture and Education

The curse of creativity: Applied music research in CIRCLE

Please contact Pam Burnard if planning to attend pab61@cam.ac.uk

UserDavid Hargreaves, Centre for International Research in Creativity and Leaning in Education Roehampton University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Causation and exceptions

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

UserProf Alexandra Walsham, Exeter (newly appointed Professor of Modern European History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 17:45-19:15

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Reconstructing Old English anatomical vocabulary

UserConan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseLodge Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 14:30-16:00

All CRASSH events

Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture

UserSir Michael Rawlins (National Institute of Clinical Excellence).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

HPS History Workshop

Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s Québec

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested

UserSPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The epistemology of memory

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Creativity: So, what is it?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if planning to attend

UserProfessor Keith Sawyer , Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Getting electrons to talk to one another

UserKantimay Das Gupta (Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics).

HouseCouncil Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

UserDr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Lyell's plots

UserAdelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Creativity and English: Exploring possibilities

To secure a place email c.l.henderson@open.ac.uk

UserPam Burnard: Cambridge University, Situating creativity in the arts and education; Janet Maybin: The Open University, Analysing children's creative use of talk.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 10:30-16:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is a thick concept?

UserNiklas Möller (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Around the World in 1209, Cambridge's Anniversary Year

UserCaroline Stone (Civilizations in Contact, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

How does one teach creativity?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if planning to attend

UserProfessor Keith Sawyer, Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA..

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 1S7.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Triumph of Music

UserProfessor Tim Blanning, Sidney Sussex, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Silver tokens of the Chinese Salt Tax on the Bed of the Java Sea

UserJanice Stargardt (Professorial Research Fellow in Asian Historical Archaeology & Geography).

HouseCouncil Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reflections on "Reflections on Cambridge"

UserProf Alan Macfarlane, King's College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 17:45-19:15

Arts, Culture and Education

Empathetic Creativity: The Product of Empathetic Attunement

Please contact Pam Burnard, if planning to attend pab61@cam.ac.uk

UserDr. Frederick Seddon.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Deference at a distance

UserJohn Cusbert (ANU/University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Philippine Studies in St. Petersburg

UserMaria V. Stanyukovich (Visitor, Civilizations in Contact, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

The meaning of altruism in interwar London

UserNick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Russia and Europe: an insoluble problem?

UserAnthony Brenton (Former British Ambassador to Russia, Wolfson College).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Russia and Europe: An Insoluble Problem?

UserTony Branton, Former British Ambassador to Russia, Fellow of Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Russia and Europe: an insoluble problem?

Participants can bring their lunches to the talk

UserTony Branton, Former British Ambassador to Russia, Fellow of Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:10

HPS History Workshop

Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosopy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fungi in history

UserNick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Serbia and the Outbreak of War in 1914

UserProf Chris Clark, St Catherine's College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 October 2009, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society

Darwin 2009 Lecture

UserProfessor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 09 July 2009, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger

UserSacha Golob (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world

Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPamela H. Smith (Columbia University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The naturalisation of reason in the seventeenth century: origins and consequences

Chair: Dr David Adams

UserDr. Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 17:45-19:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What reasons needn't be

UserCiara Fairley (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mad women and mad-doctors

UserAlexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis and war

CANCELLED

UserEli Zaretsky (New School for Social Research, NY, and Institut du Temps Présent, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval England

Chair: Dr Max Lieberman

UserProf Christine Carpenter.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2009, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press

UserGeoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

TBC

Chair: Dr David Gange

UserProfessor Simon Goldhill.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Tiger and the Unicorn: investigating the significance of images on Indus seals

UserJane McIntosh, Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

CRASSH events

Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st Century

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

UserShelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz).

HouseLecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 27 March 2009, 16:30-18:00

CRASSH events

Screening of: 'Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation' (2004)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

UserAndre Vltchek (Filmmaker and Political Commentator).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 26 March 2009, 19:30-21:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Where do the laws of logic come from?

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Use of Madness: On Darwinism and Psychiatry

UserDr Pieter R. Adriaens, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation, Flanders & Visiting Scholar, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

HouseWolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

"How to Write the History of the Mediterranean"

Chair: Dr Max Lieberman

UserProfessor David Abulafia.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

UserProfessor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Orange Revolution in Ukraine: Democracy or Velvet Restoration?

UserVsevolod Samokhvalov, PhD student, Centre of International Studies.

HouseWolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Radio 4: A Very British History

UserDr David Hendy, Visiting Fellow, CRASSH & Reader in Media, University of Westminste.

HouseWolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Missing Links: the Church of England and the Rhineland Palatinate 1565-1642'

Chair: Dr David Adams

UserProfessor Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour

UserMichael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

"La Semaine Sanglante, 1871: a revision"

Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna

UserProfessor Robert Tombs.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:45-19:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger

Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane

UserLouis Sass (Rutgers University, New Jersey).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Defending shallow essentialism

UserNathan Wildman (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Printed Circuits: Ink-Jet Printing and its Applications in Organic Electronics

UserDr Enrico Gill, Senior Member, Research associate, Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseWolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?

UserDr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth

UserBecky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Please note change of venue

UserVarious speakers.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 14:00-17:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

From Time to Time: Problems in the Conversion of Calendars, Especially for the History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy

UserDr Raymond Mercier, Affiliated Research Scholar, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science.

HouseWolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

How Long is a Foot? The Size of the Ships on China's 15th-Century Maritime Expeditions

UserDr Sally K. Church, Research Associate, Civilisations in Contact Project, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseWolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rousseau's JULIE: The Unread Best-Seller of the Eighteenth Century

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

UserProfessor Timothy O'Hagan.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 17:45-19:15

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The Historiography of the Scientific Image

UserChitra Ramalingam (Harvard University).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

CRASSH events

Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century

Closing date for registration is 5 December 2008. Fees range from £20 - £60. See here: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmuh/intro.cgi

UserAbbas Alhussainy, Michael Barry, Reinhard Bernbeck, Patrick Boylan et al.

HouseGonville & Caius, Stephen Hawking Building.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserSPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

CRASSH events

Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo

UserMargaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 11 December 2008, 17:45-18:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Status of human tissues

UserAlix Rogers (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM

UserChristian Ydesen (Centre for Educational Sociology, Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rousseau's Second Discourse: Between Stoicism and Epicureanism

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

UserDr Christopher Brooke.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:45-19:15

The Cultures of Climate Change

Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)

UserBenjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary

UserEvelyn Welch (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others

UserDr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation

UserDr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 19:00-20:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Is the pessimistic induction valid?

UserSam Nicholson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

UserAndrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The big picture - mining millions of images

UserDr Chris Town, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Methodology and the visual image

Please note the different time

UserGeoff Belknap (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Milton's angels

Chair: Dr David Adams

UserProfessor Joad Raymond.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 17:45-19:15

The Cultures of Climate Change

Listening in Place

UserDr Katharine Norman, City University.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

UserProfessor Sir John Sulston FRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance

UserJoanna Burch Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

From Qing China to Carmen's Tobacco Factory: Chinese Export Embroideries

UserCaroline Stone, Civilizations in Contact project, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseWhipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

HPS History Workshop

'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis, psyche and spirit in the modern world

UserSudhir Kakar (INSEAD, Fontainebleau & Goa).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws

UserBilly Wheeler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Orford Ness: landscape of war and science

UserSophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

The Cultures of Climate Change

Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy

UserOliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse".

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Eternal Taj Mahal: Prehistory and Development

UserDr Robert Harding, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Elizabethan England: a monarchical republic

Chair: Dr Felicia Yap

UserProfessor Patrick Collinson.

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2008, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The evolution of wonder

UserPaul White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

China and the world, 1750-2000

Chair: Dr Felicia Yap

UserProfessor Odd Arne Westad.

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2008, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Ten Perfections in Theravada Buddhism

Chair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo

UserMr William Pruitt.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 17:45-19:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The new riddle of causation

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Tracing the cunning of unreason

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

UserProfessor John Dunn.

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 17:45-19:15

HPS History Workshop

The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mandeville and the problem of political hypocrisy

Chair: Professor Enrique Bocardo-Crespo

UserDr David Runciman.

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2008, 17:45-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJohn Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Scottish psychotherapy: communion, community and communication

UserGavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Ecological Thought

UserTimothy Morton, UC-Davis.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A social construction of health

UserElly Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s

Please note early start

UserBarbara Wurm (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 16:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Thomas Digges' astronomy

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World

UserNorman Myers, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:30

Psy Studies

Revolution in mind: making the psychoanalytic field, 1870-1945

UserGeorge Makari (Weill Medical College of Cornell University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Mind-dependence and realism about the mind

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Reading Roman history in the early middle ages

Chair: Dr Max Lieberman

UserProfessor Rosamond McKitterick.

HouseQuiet Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost

UserMelanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Marx and empire

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

UserProfessor Gareth Stedman Jones.

HouseQuiet Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2008, 17:45-19:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development

UserDr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh).

HouseCRASSH Meeting Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project

UserIris Montero Sobrevilla (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

UserJanet Cardiff, Eric Clarke, Michael Bull, Graham Jeffrey, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Juliana Hodkinson, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 10:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century

UserAndreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China

UserLeon Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Distancing animals in medieval chronicles

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserBrigitte Resl (University of Liverpool).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Subjective probability and action guidance

UserMartin Peterson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sundials and the calendar

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserDr Frank King, Computer Laboratory.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change

UserKathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The primacy of secondary qualities

UserMike Collins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Imaging the Arctic

UserNick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

A line from Dante

Chair: Dr Carolina Armenteros

UserProfessor George Steiner.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 17:45-19:15

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England

UserBettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 03 December 2007, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut

UserDominic Perring, Director, Centre for Applied Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

HouseMain Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hands-free writing

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages

UserKathleen Walker-Meikle (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

The Cultures of Climate Change

ICT and Climate Change

UserMolly Webb, The Climate Group.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Psy Studies

The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori

UserKatherine Angel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

TBC

UserDalibor Vesely, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

What is a Climate Refugee?

UserDeborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Psy Studies

1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London

UserJohn Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

The Global Conservation Crisis

offered in collaboration with the Gates Cambridge Trusts' Distinguished Lecture Series

UserAnthony M Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'.

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Ancient Woodlands

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Practical reasoning and inference

UserJonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin

UserAlex Regier, Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain

UserCarlos López Beltrán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?

Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity

UserProfessor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College..

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Supposing this and that

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health

UserElselijn Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com

The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserTrevor Pinch (Cornell University).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'

UserNatalie Kaoukji (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth

UserStefan Brenner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler

UserPatrick Boner (Kommission zur Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Provisional knowledge

UserPaul Teller (University of California at Davis).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 19 April 2007, 14:00-15:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?

UserYoon Choi (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Title to be confirmed

UserMirjam Struppek (Urban Media Research; Berlin).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'

UserProfessor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 March 2007, 20:30-21:30

Psy Studies

How we became our brains: a historical perspective

UserFernando Vidal (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practices, rules and motivation

UserCaroline Baumann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them

UserProfessor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reference failure: why worry?

UserChristina McLeish (St Catharine's College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges

UserLisa Mullins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860

UserMichael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Title to be confirmed

UserMette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?

UserProfessor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Alchemy and natural history

UserJenny Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

The mismeasure of stickman: testing intelligence by drawings

UserBarbara Wittmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The difference between cause and condition

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Alternative spatialities for a global city

UserDoreen Massey (Geography; The Open University).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids

UserProfessor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction

UserSophie Weeks (Homerton College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris

UserEmma Spary (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Geological deluge and snowball Earth

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 13:00-14:15

Psy Studies

Four erotic problems: elements of a history of arts of love

UserMichel Feher (École Normale Supérieure, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Relative meaning

UserJoe Sandham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

HPS History Workshop

Electrons in the family

UserJaume Navarro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system

UserDr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

HPS History Workshop

Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle

UserSir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work

UserJoab Rosenberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The life habits of the trilobites

UserProfessor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950

Note: This seminar will start at 12.30

UserJasper Heinzen (Darwin College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 12:30-13:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Not all computations are effective methods

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual

UserRoger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

UserProfessor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

HPS History Workshop

Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge

UserMelanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserWilliam Adams, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 June 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserAnna Mrker, Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century

All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch

UserBenjamin Wardhaugh, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 March 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.

UserProfessor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of the Earth

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 16 December 2005, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins

UserProfessor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 28 November 2005, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Free Will Theorem

UserProfessor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2005, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Dynamic Sun

UserDr Helen Mason, DAMTP.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 31 October 2005, 20:30-21:30

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