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5 upcoming talks and 2677 talks in the archive.

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

UserChristopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Albert Fox Cahn

UserAlbert Fox Cahn .

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

UserLovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi).

HouseRoom 9, Faculty of History.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

UserRichard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 22 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development

UserMagnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies).

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

A Taxonomy of Injustice

UserDuncan Ivison (University of Sydney).

HouseBawden Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 17 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Tech Design and Human Rights: Six Provocations (and a Card Game!)

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Sebastian Lehuede.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 08 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke and Slavery

UserMark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Futures of Critique in International Political Theory

UserKimberley Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseWebb Library, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 20 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Welcome Drinks!

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan and Dr Ella McPherson.

HouseAtrium, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 18:30-19:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The Right of Peaceful Assembly Today: Technology, Policing, Politics

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

UserEdward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Student Group 2023-24: Introductory Meeting

UserCGHR Co-Director Dr Sharath Srinivasan.

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 11 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

UserMichael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Protective Falsehoods

UserMaxime Lepoutre (University of Reading).

HouseWebb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Critical Data Research in Praxis

If you're interested in joining this event, please contact Dr Sebastián Lehuedé at sal92@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Mirca Madianou (Goldmisths University); Professor Nick Couldry (LSE); Professor Ulises Ali Mejia (SUNY Oswego); and Dr Andrea Medrado (University of Westminster).

HouseSG1, ARB.

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 12:00-17:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book Launch: Human Rights for Pragmatists, by Jack Snyder

UserJack Snyder (Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University), and Emma Mackinnon and Sharath Srinivasan (University of Cambridge).

HouseS1, ARB.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Workshop by Voices 4 Workers in Tech (V4WT)

UserDr Hong Yu Liu, Lu Wang, Muhammed Alakitan and Anusha Arumugam.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 24 April 2023, 09:00-12:30

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Suffering, Progress, and Precarity in the West

UserProfessor Michael Barnett, George Washington University.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room S1.

ClockMonday 03 April 2023, 13:00-15:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Carly Kind on Tech, Data and AI

UserCarly Kind (Director, Ada Lovelace Institute).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

TBA

UserStefan Eich (Georgetown University).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Clea Kahn on Conflict and Humanitarianism

UserClea Kahn (Humanitarian Consultant and Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Social Studies).

HouseIn person, SG2, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'

UserJamie Martin (Harvard), with comments by Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge), Madeline Woker (Cambridge), and Duncan Bell (Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Is Drag Morally Objectionable?

UserSimon Kirchin (University of Kent).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 04 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Jessica Patterson’s (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'

UserJessica Patterson (Cambridge), with comments by Ian Stewart (QMUL), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), and Shruti Kapila (Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Commemorating the Dead

UserZofia Stemplowska (University of Oxford).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 07 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserCharlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2022, 17:00-18:15

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book Launch: "Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda"

UserRebecca Tapscott, Ambizione Research Fellow, the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-arbitrary-states-oup-2021-by-dr-rebecca-tapscott-tickets-250066775457?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Book Talk: ARBITARY STATES, Rebecca Tapscott

Book Talk: ARBITARY STATES, Rebecca Tapscott

This talk has been canceled/deleted

UserRebecca Tapscott.

HouseOnline (register on Eventbrite for link).

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’

Paper available for pre-reading

UserHelen Tilley, Northwestern University .

HouseZoom + TBC venue.

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Should we have kids in the climate emergency?

UserElizabeth Cripps (Edinburgh).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

UserKatherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Doubt as a Political Virtue

UserQuassim Cassam (Warwick).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands

The paper will be made available before the seminar

UserLauren Benton, Yale University .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

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

Contemporary Political Theory

TBC

UserGulzaar Barn (Utrecht).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Practitioner Series: JONATHAN COHEN (Exec Director, Conciliation Resources)

UserJonathan Cohen (Director, Conciliation Resources).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Anger and Remorse

UserAdam Etison (St. Andrews).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserDaniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

ClockWednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:15

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Thought of Charles Malik

UserChloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery

UserHelen McCabe (Nottingham).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis?

UserDr Momoko Kitada (World Maritime University), Dr Birgit Pauksztat (Uppsala University), Dr Sanley Abila (University of the Phillipines Visayas), Dr Helen Devereux (Solent University), .

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-implications-of-online-assemblies-tickets-151772861715?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 12:00-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Exploring the implications of online assemblies

UserFrancesca Fanucci (ECNL), Evelyn Douek (Harvard Law School), Dr Ella McPherson (Cambridge Sociology/CGHR), Dr Thomas Probert (Univ. Pretoria/CGHR), .

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-implications-of-online-assemblies-tickets-151772861715?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"

UserMax Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India

UserNazmul Sultan (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico

UserDr Federico Subervi-Vélez, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sandra Rodríguez Cotto, Journalist, Puerto Rico; Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Northwestern University.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 18:00-19:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Bryce and the concepts of constitution

UserPasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

UserJeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

UserFernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Audre Lorde on Care

UserKathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

UserLuc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

UserRachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Normative Powers

UserLaura Valentini (KCL).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

UserSusan Shell (Boston College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

UserMark Fisher (Georgetown University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

UserLars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

UserSteven Klein (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account

UserUdit Bhatia (Oxford).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

UserLisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

UserElla Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR

UserSharath Srinivasan (POLIS/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation), Luke Church (Computer Lab/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation).

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124692772439.

ClockThursday 26 November 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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

UserEva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction

UserMelvin Rogers (Brown).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case

UserRebekah Lyndon, Victoria Tse, Lena Moore, Mo May-Hobbs.

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124686264975.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality

UserDavid Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

UserBrandon Terry (Harvard University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

Contemporary Political Theory

The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory

UserVanessa Wills (George Washington).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

UserGeneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem

UserAnnette Zimmermann (York).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

UserAdam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 19 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

UserMira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy

UserLisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

UserEdith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

"We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory

UserJeanne Morefield (Birmingham).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

UserLars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

Max Cam

Material Political Economy

UserDonald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh.

House McCrum Lecture Theate, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 19:00-20:00

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City, University of London .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 17:00-18:15

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Responsibility

UserJude Browne (Cambridge).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:15

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"

UserTejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 20 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Grounds of Political Legitimacy

UserFabienne Peter (Warwick).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'

UserAdam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 02 December 2019, 17:00-19:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Neoliberal Turn

UserAngus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces

UserDr Manali Desai, Dr Tiffany Page, Dr Holly Porter, Ilaria Michelis.

HouseNewnham College, Lucia Windsor Room.

ClockMonday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Digital Verification Workshop

UserRay Adams Row Farr and Rebekah Lyndon, students at the University of Cambridge.

HouseAngevin Room, Queens' College.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?

UserProfessor Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom S1, ARB.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations

Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics

UserProfessor Annabel Brett, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:15

Contemporary Political Theory

Radical Reparations

UserDaniel Butt (Oxford).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality

UserDonatella Rovera, Sam Dubberly, Matt Mahmoudi.

HouseAngevin room, Queens College.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 17:15-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy

UserEmma Mackinnon (Cambridge).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence

UserDr Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 17:15-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

International Law's Objects: A Conversation

UserDr Jessie Hohmann (QMUL) and Dr Daniel Joyce (University of New South Wales).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 18:00-19:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserMustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 11 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Max Cam

The ethics of numbers, the ethics of growth

UserProfessor Diane Coyle.

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserEliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Left Critiques of Equality

UserAnne Phillips (LSE).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War

UserRaffy Lerma - freelance photographer; Ica Fernandez - urban planner; Inez Feria - founder of NoBox Philippines .

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE

UserRt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

International Relations & History Working Group

'Global History and the Place of the International'

UserAndrew Hurrell ( Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University).

House Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi

UserDr. Duncan Omanga, British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2018/9); Senior Lecturer of Media Studies in Moi University, Kenya.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Humanitarian Club

UserProfessor Michael Barnett (George Washington University).

House138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Emancipation for the Unjust Past

UserAlasia Nuti (York).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas

UserJuan Pablo Scarfi (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina; Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université Paris 3).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:15-18:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

The Logic of Legitimacy

UserAmanda Greene (UCL).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication

UserProfessor Pat Capps (University of Bristol Law School).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Theory for the Real World

UserMichael Goodhart (Pittsburgh).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century

UserMichalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds

UserKaitlin M. Ball (University of Cambridge), Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan writer & Political Analyst), Dr Jude Kagoro (University of Bremen).

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus

UserDr Jude Kagoro, Research Fellow at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan

UserDr Sarah Nouwen (University Senior Lecturer in International Law) & Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis (doctoral candidate, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 17:15-18:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

A Just Theory of Riots

UserJonathan Havercroft (Southampton).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 12 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?

UserProfessor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?

UserProfessor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action

UserDr Stephen Humphreys (LSE), Dr Shailaja Fennell (Centre of Development Studies), chaired by Dr Mette Eilstrup- Sangiovanni (POLIS).

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias

UserJanet Tobias, Director, Sierra Tango Productions & Dr Laurie Denyer Willis, CGHR Research Associate.

HouseFitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 30 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

A Certain Idea of Britain: Writing the political history of one's own country in one's own times

UserLord Peter Hennessy (Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty

UserHeather Widdows (Birmingham).

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill on Universal History

UserCallum Barrell (New College of the Humanities).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America

Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar

UserIra Katznelson (Columbia) .

HouseQueens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies

UserChristof Heyns, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee & former UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Anneke Osse, Consultant on policing and human rights, Stuart Maslen Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law (University of Pretoria) .

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 18:00-19:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The Weaponisation of Human Rights

UserChase Madar, attorney, author and journalist.

HouseKing's Audit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"

UserDr Kate Miles (Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Gonville & Caius).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Corruption as a global threat

UserLaurence Cockcroft, Independent Writer and Economist & Prof Jason Sharman, POLIS.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity?

UserGilles Babinet, Tech entrepreneur and former President of the French Digital National Council.

HouseSG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 12:00-02:00

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly

UserNjoki Wamai (CGHR, POLIS, University of Cambridge), Patrick Mutahi (University of Edinburgh), Kamau Wairuri (University of Edinburgh) .

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Philosophical Racism

UserKatrin Flikschuh (LSE).

HouseBawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 03 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited

UserDr Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge).

HouseWine Room King's College.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?

UserDr Ziv Bohrer (Bar-Ilan University; visitor, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 17:15-18:30

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

International Relations & History Working Group

Hitler's biography

UserProf. Brendan Simms ( History of International Relations, Cambridge University).

HouseWine Room King's College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict

UserMaksymilian Czuperski, Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab & Special Advisor to the President, Atlantic Council.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 12:00-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Salon: Duterte’s War on Drugs (Last CGHR Salon of Easter Term!)

UserSharmila Parmanand, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 08 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States

For the paper in advance, please contact md718@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Jason Sharman (POLIS).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 15:30-16:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC

UserDr. Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery

UserProfessor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockFriday 05 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age

UserSam Dubberley, manager of Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps, and Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law.

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 27 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa, State Formation and Decay

UserProfessor Christopher Clapham (Cambridge); Dr Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown, Qatar).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Asylum Monologues

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre.

ClockSaturday 11 March 2017, 14:00-16:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Radio and Political Change: Everyday Life Listening in Morocco

UserDr Ali Sonay, POLIS, University of Cambridge, with Discussant Lorena Gazzotti (Centre of Development Studies, Cambridge).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

States, Corporations, Robots

UserDavid Runciman (Cambridge).

HousePrioress's Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

State Security, Torture and the Law

UserDr. Onder Ozkalipci (Medical Expert), Dr. Carla Ferstman (REDRESS) and Dr. Lutz Oette (SOAS).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

How can researchers better engage with national and global policymaking?

UserCharlotte Watts (DfID), Peter Sellen (Education Policy Institute), Roy Head (CEO of DMI) and Pauline Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseBoulind Room, Mary Allen Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-18:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Institutions, Growth, and Global Justice

UserChris Armstrong (Southampton).

HousePrioress's Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The challenge of justice in transnational contexts of human rights violations: reflections on the case of Giulio Regeni

UserDr Antonio Marchesi (Professor of Law at Università di Teramo and President, Amnesty Italy) .

HouseKeynes Hall Lecture Theatre, King's College.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 12:00-13:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Life Beside the State: Refusing citizenship in Rio de Janeiro's Pentecostal Subúrbios

UserLaurie Denyer-Willis (CGHR, POLIS) with discussant Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Geography).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Salon: Politics of Choice in Eastern and Southern Europe

UserDr. Marcin Smietana, Dr. Robert Pralat, and Dr. Katie Dow; Reproductive Sociology Research Group.

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 01 December 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

Contemporary Political Theory

The Doctrine of Gender Identity - A Critical Examination

UserRebecca Reilly-Cooper (Warwick).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

In conversation: Richard Leakey FRS on Kenyan politics, African politics

*Attendance by registration only: email Dr Srinivasan - ss919@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Richard Leakey (Stony Brook University, Turkana Basin Institute).

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer

UserKiev Ruhorahoza (film Director), Piotr Cieplak and Dr Andrea Grant.

HouseArts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR.

ClockSaturday 22 October 2016, 18:30-20:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Should human rights be apolitical? A debate

UserAngela Patrick, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Dr Stephanie Palmer, Dr Sharath Srinivasan and Julian Huppert.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 17 October 2016, 19:30-20:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book launch: Why Comrades Go To War

UserHarry Verhoeven (Georgetown), Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Christopher Clapham (discussant, Cambridge).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

On Feeding the Masses: The Politics of Regulatory Failure in China

UserProfessor John Yasuda, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University.

House Room S3, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-18:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Research Group: 'Governing the slums: Lessons from Kenya and Rwanda'

UserThomas H. Stubbs (Department of Sociology); Discussant: Dr. Graham Denyer Willis.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Political Sociology of Human Rights

UserPROF KATE NASH (Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: Investigations and Accountability for Right to Life Violations CGHR in conversation with the lead counsel for the Human Rights Commission, Toby Fisher

UserToby Fisher, Barrister, Lead Counsel South African Human Rights Commission - Marikana Commission; Dr Thomas Probert Research Consultant, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; CGHR Research Asociate.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2016, 16:00-18:00

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

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

What is left of the international? Professor Hill's valedictory lecture.

UserProfessor Christopher Hill, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations.

HouseThe Riley Auditorium, Memorial Court, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Technology and Democracy Events

"Social media and political turbulence"

UserProfessor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series

UserNadia Kevlin (Humanitarian Aid Worker); Daniella Ritzau Reid (Humanitarian Aid Worker).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Decolonising Higher Education: From South Africa to the UK

Critical Theory and Practice seminar, co-sponsored by CGHR

UserAdam Branch (Politics, Cambridge) and others.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 6.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 17:15-18:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

ALGORITHMIC PREDICTION IN POLICING: ASSUMPTIONS, EVALUATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY

UserLyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales.

HouseRoom S3 Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History

UserLeslie Chang, Jacapo Satori, Ryan Ripamonti, Emiliano Travieso, and Aditya Basrur (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Art of Solidarity

UserMihaela Mihai (Edinburgh).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: Doing Development Differently

UserMr Andy Ratcliffe, Deputy CEO and Director of Strategy and Development, Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI)..

HouseRoom 119, ARB.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: The UN from Within

UserStephanie La Hoz Theuer, MPhil candidate Cambridge, former Associate Programme Officer, UNFCCC; Victoria Stewart-Jolley, PhD candidate, POLIS, former UNV, UNDP; Chair: Dr Devon Curtis, POLIS..

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Complications during pregnancy in Uganda: Researching socio-cultural drivers using innovative methods (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Wine will be served from 17:15...

UserDr Claudia Abreu Lopes, Head of Research and Development, Africa's Voices Foundation.

HouseWine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TS.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy

UserDaniel Allemann, Stephanie Ternullo, Rosa Hodgkin, Connor Lempriere, and Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The World Bank Global Agenda on Jobs and Implications for the Middle East and North Africa region after the Arab Spring

UserDiego F. Angel-Urdinola, senior economist in the Human Development Department of the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank.

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The World is not Enough: developing social entrepreneurship in academia and real life

UserDr Nir Tsuk- Adjunct Professor, Social Capital & Entrepreneurship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Rhetorical Performances

UserAlan Finlayson (UEA).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change

UserFunmi Olonisakin (Director, African Leadership Centre); Pamela Aall (Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation); Sharath Srinivasan (Director, CGHR). Chaired by Devon Curtis (POLIS).

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Skills and Techniques of an NGO'

UserDame Barbara Stocking, President, Murray Edwards College, former CEO Oxfam GB.

HouseRoom 119, ARB.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

What's in Cameron's Baskets and Why Does It Matter? Renegotiating the UK's Relationship with the EU

UserProfessor Kenneth Armstrong, Dr Julie Smith, Professor Catherine Barnard, Dr Markus Gehring, Dr Albertina Albors-Llorens.

HouseFaculty of Law.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 16:30-00:00

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Being a Special Adviser (SPAD)'

UserGiles Wilkes, Financial Times Former Special Adviser to Vince Cable.

HouseRoom 119, ARB.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Roundtable: Digital Publics and Counterpublics in Africa

UserHarri Englund (Cambridge), Florence Brisset-Foucault (Paris-Sorbonne), Duncan Omanga (Moi University, Kenya).

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Reparations and Historic Injustice

UserCatherine Lu (McGill University).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Using Research to Influence Government Policy'

UserJo Casebourne, Programme Director, Institute for Government.

HouseRoom 119, ARB.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Research Seminar: ‘What’s Wrong with the British Constitution? Implications of the Scottish and EU Referendum Votes’

UserIain McLean, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, Vice-President for Public Policy, British Academy.

HouseRoom 119, ARB.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Rating Companies on Responsible Sourcing: Data Sprint

REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rating-companies-on-responsible-sourcing-data-sprint-tickets-20056692106?aff=es2

UserAmnesty International and WikiRate.

HouseArmitage Room, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 12:30-16:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Film screening: Enemies of the People

Reserve FREE tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cghr-film-screening-enemies-of-the-people-followed-by-a-qa-with-co-director-rob-lemkin-tickets-19473962145

UserRob Lemkin (Co-Director).

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 18:30-20:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Taking a wolf by the ears: What is Putin up to in Syria and Ukraine?

UserSir Tony Brenton ( Former British Ambassador to Russia; Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson Colleg).

HouseRoom S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Theorising Borders in an Era of Globalization and Securitization

Sponsored by: The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies and the Centre of Governmence and Human Rights, POLIS. This event is free but please RSVP Ann Waterman (EED) at aw244@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor David Newman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge. Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 15:30-17:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Ranking Digital Rights Project

Co-hosted by the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law and CGHR

UserRebecca Mackinnon (New America).

HouseG24, Law Faculty (Sidgwick Site).

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Revolutionary Partisanship

UserProf. Lea Ypi (LSE).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Special panel discussion on Paris attacks

UserProfessor Christopher Hill, Dr Christopher Bickerton, Dr Aaron Rapport and Professor Robert Tombs.

House Little Hall Auditorium.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Problematic Politics: is the notion of human rights imperialistic?

Co-hosted by Cambridge University Amnesty International, CGHR and Clare Politics

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR), Lucy Wake (Amnesty International), Prof. Stephen Hopgood (CCRI, SOAS), Dr Arath Sriprakash (Cambridge), Srishti Krishnamoorthy (Cambridge) .

HouseElton Bowring Room, Gillespie Centre, Clare College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 19:30-00:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Global Capitalism and its Critics: Discussion Group

UserGuy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS.

HouseSeminar room, Sociology Department, Free School Lane .

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s

UserProf Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: Unusual suspects

UserJames Montague, Sophie Roborgh and Hazem Kandil.

HouseSG1/2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockSaturday 24 October 2015, 14:30-15:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Forms of Differential Social Inclusion

UserProf. Jonathan Wolff (UCL).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Family Values

UserProf. Adam Swift (Warwick).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 09 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The United States of Europe: myth or reality?

UserPietro De Matteis, President, European Federalist Party and Cambridge alumnus.

HouseAlison Richard Building (ARB), 7 West Road, 1st floor, room 138.

ClockFriday 12 June 2015, 17:00-18:30

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

CISA panel event: 'The Labour Party and political culture: a post-election analysis'

UserProf. Alan Finlayson (East Anglia University), Prof. Andrew Gamble (University of Cambridge), Dr. Ben Jackson (University of Oxford).

HouseAlison Richard Building, room S2.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

CISA seminar on "UN peacekeeping reform from the operational perspective"

UserJonathan Marley (LSE, Irish Defence Forces Military College) and Edward Burke (University of St Andrews, FRIDE).

HouseAlison Richard Building (ARB), Room 138.

ClockThursday 28 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq

UserProf. Michael MacDonald, Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations at Williams College.

HouseAlison Richard Building (ARB), Room 106.

ClockMonday 25 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Innovative Human-Centred Development Approaches: Learn How the UN is Engaging Youth in Peace Building and Development.

UserMr. Andrew Russell is the UN Development Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Kosovo..

HouseEnglish Faculty GR04.

ClockFriday 22 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Subnational peripheries and the comparative method

UserThomas B Pepinsky, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University.

HouseAlison Richard Building (ARB), 7 West Road, 2nd floor, Room S2.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 14:00-15:30

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Waterloo: the first NATO operation?

UserProfessor Brendan Simms, POLIS and Peterhouse.

HouseTheatre, Peterhouse.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The House of Commons select committee system: present and future

UserAriella Huff, Committee Specialist at the Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons and Cambridge alumna.

HouseAlison Richard Building (ARB), 7 West Road, 2nd floor, Room S2.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Stifling the Arab Spring: The GCC Perspective

UserProfessor Dr Malik Dahlan, Principal of Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy (iQ); Chief Lawyer, MBR Legal and; International Chair of the Harvard Law School Association..

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 119.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 15:30-17:00

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage and in Peace Negotiations

UserDr Todd Hall, associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and Tutor in Politics at St Anne’s College.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 119.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 15:00-17:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserProf. Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 17:00-18:45

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series, Freddie Carver, DFID

UserFreddie Carver, Head of Security and Justice Group, Stabilisation Unit, DfID.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserAlexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Talha Ahsan: the Power of Poetry and the Arts in Extradition Campaigns

Hosted by Cambridge Student PEN and CGHR

UserHamja Ahsan, Julian Huppert MP, Kate Honey (Green Party).

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Early Hobbes

UserProf. Alan Cromartie (University of Reading).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:45

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserEllen Nye/Tim Rudnicki/Cheng Yang (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Recall of MPs

UserTony Wright (Birkbeck, University of London, University College London).

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 119.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 15:00-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Moral Equality, Respect, and Cruelty

UserDr Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL).

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Is there a republican model of democracy?

UserProf. Andreas Niederberger (University of Duisberg-Essen).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Parliament and the Law

UserDawn Oliver (University College London).

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 119.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 15:00-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Social Contribution Injustice

UserProf. Kimberlee Brownlee (Warwick).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Tech Innovators Working in Human Rights

UserTanya O'Carroll, Adviser, Technology and Human Rights Team, Amnesty International, and Harlo Holmes, Research Fellow, Head of Metadata, The Guardian Project and technical lead for InformaCam..

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Film Screening: The Awra Amba Experience, preview screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers

PLEASE NOTE CHANGES TO PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED TIME AND VENUE

UserFilmmakers: Paulina Tervo and Serdar Ferit.

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 19:00-21:00

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Labour in Opposition

UserTim Bale (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 138.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 15:00-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Defending Human Rights

UserJames Savage, Amnesty International; Valdênia Paulino Lanfranchi, University of York; Mikdam Turkey, London South Bank University .

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 17:30-19:00

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Levels of Non-Ideality

UserProf. Hillel Steiner (Manchester).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

"We are all Charlie?" Lunchtime Seminar

UserProfessor Robert Tombs, a Fellow of St. John's College.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room SG2.

ClockMonday 12 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Asylum Monologues

UserPerformed by Ice and Fire (Script by Sonja Linden).

HouseKeynes Hall, King's College.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 17:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserBernardo Zacka (Christ's College, University of Cambridge).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 17:00-18:45

POLIS Department Research Seminars

The Global Transformation

UserDr George Lawson, London School of Economics.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 138.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 15:00-17:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dystopia: For Dummies

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserProfessor Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Naming Abscence: The Politics of Body Counts

UserMoya Lloyd (Loughborough).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

International Mediation as the Management of Complexity

UserProf. Laurie Nathan, Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserDr Robert Lamb (University of Exeter).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Sovereignty Rules: Human Rights Regimes and State Sovereignty

UserProf. Laurie Nathan, Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria.

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 17:00-19:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book launch: The Workers' Movement and Egypt's Long Revolution

UserDr Maha Abdelrahman (Centre of Development Studies and POLIS), Anne Alexander (CRASSH.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 15:00-16:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology"

UserDr Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Seminar: Big Data, Communications and Media Theory: Conceptual Challenges

UserWendy Pullan (Architecture) John Naughton (CRASSH, Wolfson), Sharath Srinivasan (POLIS).

HouseRoom SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 14:00-16:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Africa's Voices Project

Inaugural Cambridge-Africa Day

UserSharath Srinivasan, Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights.

HouseEmmanuel College, Queen’s Building.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 12:10-12:25

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

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Poland and Ukraine: Passages to Democracy

UserDr Harald Wydra (POLIS, St Catz) and Dr Rory Finnin (Cambridge, Ukranian Studies).

HouseThe McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 12:30-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence"

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

UserDr Miira Tuominen (University of Helsinki).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Contemporary Political Theory

Reading Shakespeare Politically

UserElizabeth Frazer (Oxford).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Nietzsche's Perfect State

UserDr Hugo Drochon (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 20 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

POLIS Department Research Seminars

The State of War

UserProfessor Jens Bartelson, Lund University, Sweden.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 138.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 15:00-17:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism

UserProfessor Andrew Gamble (University of Sheffield).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Carrying Trade

Note change of start time: 12.30pm

UserCarolyn Dougherty (York).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

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

POLIS events and lectures

Daniel Drezner on How the World Stopped Another Depression

UserDaniel Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-18:00

Europe Research Seminar Series

European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: Theory and Practice

UserDaniel Fiott, Institute for European Studies - Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: S2.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

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

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Martin Jacques (Senior Fellow, POLIS, & author of When China rules the world).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

The Great War: causes and consequences

UserProfessor Dominic Lieven with Dr Alex Anievas, Professor Brendan Simms, and Dr Ayse Zarakol Chair: Professor Andrew Gamble.

HouseSG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-18:00

Europe Research Seminar Series

Comparative study on europeanisation of party politics.

UserDr. Erol Külahci, (Associate member) Centre for the study of Politics, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: S2.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935

Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)

UserMira Siegelberg (Harvard University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Egypt and the Arab Spring

UserDr Maha Abdel-Rahman, Centre of Development Studies and POLIS.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections

UserRichard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

Contemporary Political Theory

Torture, Morality, and Law

UserMatthew Kramer (Cambridge).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement

Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)

UserTeresa Bejan (Columbia University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist

UserDavid Runciman (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Deaths That Matter: NOTE: SEMINAR CANCELLED

UserMoya Lloyd (Loughborough).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Researching Public Opinion and Political Accountability: Broadcasting and New Media in Contemporary African Context

UserCGHR's Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA) project roundtable (invitation/registration only).

HouseRoom 119 - Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 08:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Philosophical History in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought

Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)

UserWaseem Yaqoob (Pembroke College, Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

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

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Does Stealing from Foreigners Increase Quality of Life? How Expropriation Affects Domestic Human Rights

Chair/Discussant: Dr Nikitas Konstantinidis, POLIS, Cambridge

UserDr Noel P. Johnston, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Floor 3, Room: S3.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:30-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment

UserWarren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania/Humboldt University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Europe Research Seminar Series

The future of EU Defence Policy.

UserDaniel Keohane, Senior Researcher and Head of Strategic Affairs, FRIDE.

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 119.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context

Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, Cambridge)

UserCharles Devellennes (University of Kent).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:45

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Was the First World War a just war?

UserNigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Oxford University.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Conflict and Crisis in South Sudan: Roundtable

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR/POLIS, University of Cambridge), Peter Ajak (PhD Student, POLIS) and Dr Laura James (Independent Consultant and Former Economic Adviser to African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan).

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

CISA

Evidence-Based Policy: Doing it Better

UserDr. Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, LSE, and University of California at San Diego; Director of the Durham Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society; Fellow of the British Academy.

HouseSG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 12 December 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'

Comment: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)

UserTim Rogan (St Catharine's College, Cambridge) .

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule

UserChristopher Meckstroth (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Crimes Against Humanity, and Future People

UserCatriona McKinnon (Reading).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Africa's digital communications revolution: Valuing new voices in African public spheres

This seminar is part of the King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar Series

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (Fellow of King's College, Cambridge); Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR), Cambridge.

HouseBeves Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Europe Research Seminar Series

War Without Americans: the real challenge for the European Council on Defence

UserProfessor Sven Biscop, Egmont – The Royal Institute for International Relations.

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 138.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:00-16:00

POLIS events and lectures

King Rama X: The Thai Monarchy and Democracy

UserPavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto University).

HouseLecture Block Room 8 (Sidgwick site).

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

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

Europe Research Seminar Series

Norms Resistance in European Foreign Policy: The Case of the European External Action Service

UserProf Sophie Vanhoonacker, University of Maastricht and Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College.

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: S2.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975

Comment: Christopher Brooke (University of Bristol)

UserKatrina Forrester (St John's College, Cambridge) .

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What Makes Representation Democratic?

UserSofia Näsström (Uppsala University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Panel “What’s left? The European left beyond the Third Way”

The panel will be chaired by prof. Andrew Gamble (Cambridge, POLIS)

UserDr. Stephen Driver (Roehampton); Prof. Marc Lazar (SciencesPo Paris); Prof. Luke Martell (Sussex); Prof. William Paterson (Aston).

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: S2.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Benificence and Blackmail

UserBen Colburn (Glasgow).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens

Comment: David Runciman (POLIS)

UserDaniela Cammack (Harvard Society of Fellows) .

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Europe Research Seminar Series

Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense: An Institutional Perspective

UserDr Hylke Dijkstra, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: 138.

ClockFriday 18 October 2013, 14:00-16:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

'Africa's Voices' project seminar

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR) and Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes (CGHR) .

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What is Liberalism?

UserDuncan Bell (Christ's College).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Panel ‘2013 German Elections’

UserDr. Waltraud Schelkle, (LSE); Dr. Pieter Van Houten (Cambridge).

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: S2.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 17:15-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Moral and Institutional Desert

UserJules Holroyd (Nottingham).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

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

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

POLIS events and lectures

Alcuin Lecture 2013, Is there a future for the European Union - and with Britain in it?

Applications to attend should be received by 12 noon on 31 May, please email cahg2@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Loukas Tsoukalis, University of Athens, President of ELIAMEP.

HouseRiley.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

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

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

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

POLIS events and lectures

Symposium on The Future of Deadly conflict is Optimism Defensible

Note online registration required

UserHumanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans.

HouseThe Pitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 14:00-18:00

POLIS events and lectures

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: An Impossible Dream?

UserHumanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

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

POLIS events and lectures

Ending Mass Atrocity crimes: A Hopeless Dream

UserHumanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

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

POLIS events and lectures

Ending the Deadly Conflict: A Naive Dream?

UserHumanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought

Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary)

UserSam James (Jesus College, Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 06 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

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

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

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Reflections on the Kenyan Elections - A Panel Discussion

UserProfessor John Lonsdale (Trinity College, Cambridge); Professor Bruce Berman (Queen's University, Ontario; Smuts Visiting Research Fellow); Njoki Wamai (PhD Student, POLIS).

HouseRoom SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'

Joint Session with the Modern British History Seminar

UserJose Harris (University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 17:00-18:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

When Authoritarianism fails in the Arab World: understanding the recourse to the Muslim lexicon

UserDr Francois Burgat, director of research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research).

HouseRoom SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility

Commentator: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)

UserNiall O'Flaherty (King's College, London).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

POLIS events and lectures

'What is British foreign policy for?’

UserProf. Christopher Hill.

HousePembroke College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:30-00:00

POLIS events and lectures

'What is British foreign policy for?’

UserProf. Christopher Hill.

HousePembroke College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Commentator: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)

UserLauren Benton (New York University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895

Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)

UserLeigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Politics and The Sacred

Hard copies available at the POLIS office. Digital copies by request.

UserDr Harald Wydra, St Catharine's College/POLIS.

HouseSeminar Room 119, Alison Richard Building (ARB), Sidgwick Site.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Violence

UserMatthias Riedl (Central European University).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning

Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)

UserKaren Collis (University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:45

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

From Suez to Sudan: UN Peacekeeping in Africa

UserDr. Adekeye Adebajo, Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa.

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

European Research Group

Workshop: St Malo’s impetus for European Security and Defence: Much Ado about Nothing?!

UserCRASSH, in cooperation with POLIS, University of Birmingham and the Global Governance Institute.

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 07 December 2012, 14:00-18:00

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

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Panel on the Politics of Wellbeing

UserAvner Offer (Oxford), Jules Evans (Queen Mary, University of London), Felicia Huppert (Cambridge).

HouseAlison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: S2.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy

Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)

UserRaffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century

Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)

UserNick Hardy (University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes and Sexual Desire

UserNoel Malcolm (All Souls College, University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)

Comment: Harro Hopfl (Essex)

UserSophie Nicholls (University of Oxford).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Authority: Some Fables

UserRaymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Freedom as Independence

UserLaura Valentini (UCL).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry

Commentator: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)

UserIan Hunter (University of Queensland).

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

jti20's list

Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2012

John Locke and the Fable of Liberalism

UserDr Tim Stanton and others.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 10:00-17:00

Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events

The Hague Tribunal and the Serbian Elites

UserSonja Biserko, Eric Lane Fellow - Clare College and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia.

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The power of persuasion in Plato

UserJill Frank (University of South Carolina).

HouseBeves Room, King’s College.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

'Human-centred' development? Rethinking 'freedom' and 'agency'

UserProfessor David Chandler, Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster.

HouseRoom S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 14:00-16:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roman Liberty

UserMalcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge).

HouseBeves Room, King’s College.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Roundtable: Crisis in the Sudans

UserDr Sarah Nouwen (Cambridge), Ms Benedetta De Alessi (SOAS), Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR).

HouseRoom S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Political Transition in Myanmar (Burma)

UserSanjay Pulipaka (Pavate Visiting Fellow, Cambridge; Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata India).

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Workshop: People’s Power in the Struggle for Freedom

UserJack DuVall, International Center on Non-Violent Conflict (ICNC) President, Dr. Maciej Bartkowski, ICNC Senior Director, Hardy Merriman, ICNC Senior Advisor, Professor Howard Barrell, Arwa Hassan, International Development Specialist.

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 10:00-17:00

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

European Research Group

Workshop - 'Managing Migration and Asylum in Europe: Current Challenges and Policy Responses'

UserFor all speakers, see http://cambridgemigrationworkshop2012.blogspot.com/.

HouseRobinson College, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 March 2012, 00:00-00:00

European Research Group

'Faltering alliances and emerging faultlines: the political complexities of EU immigration policy'

Lecture followed by a drinks reception. For more information, see http://cambridgemigrationworkshop2012.blogspot.com/

UserElizabeth Collett Director, Migration Policy Institute Europe and Senior Advisor to the Transatlantic Council on Migration.

HouseUmney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 17:30-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development

UserRebecca Dale - UK Department for International Development, Senior Conflict Advisor.

HouseAlison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

The future of the CSDP

RESCHEDULED

UserDr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, POLIS.

HouseS3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815

Held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar

UserRichard Whatmore (University of Sussex).

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sismondi contra Rousseau

UserTom Hopkins (University of Helsinki).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics

UserAnna Becker (University of Basle).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 17:00-18:45

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

The EU as a Global Conflict Manager

UserStefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 18:00-19:30

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Egypt Study Trip

UserEgypt Study Trip organised by CISA.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road, room 138.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy

UserRonald Beiner (University of Toronto and Clare Hall).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 17:00-18:45

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Democracy and Governance in Afghanistan: What has been achieved?

UserJoseph Brinker USAID, Senior Democracy and Governance Advisor - Afghanistan/Pakistan Affairs.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2011, 17:00-18:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Rising China and Global Justice

UserProfessor Ian Holliday, University of Hong Kong.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Regalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples

UserGirolamo Imbruglia (University of Naples, l'Orientale).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Marking the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: How the US created the UN to win the war and the implications for IR

UserDr Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy School of Oriental and African Studies.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Beyond revolutions: the use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Workshop participation is limited: to register your interest, please email Iginio Gagliardone (ig282@cam.ac.uk) describing your background and why you would like to participate.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 09:00-17:00

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts

UserMark Knights (University of Warwick) and Phil Withington (University of Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Political Change and the Politics of Small Things

UserDr Mohammad M Mojahedi, CRASSH and CGHR Visiting Associate.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

State of Citizenship: Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement and Citizen Action

UserProfessor Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies Sussex University.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell

UserSarah Hutton (University of Wales Aberystwyth and Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Three Views of Democracy

UserDavid Runciman (University of Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

'Facts on the Ground' and the Subversion of the Global in Israeli Activism

UserFiona Wright, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Idea of Immanent Criticism

UserGordon Finlayson (Sussex).

HouseSeminar Room G, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 13:00-14:30

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

CISA Annual Garden Party

Members free entry, non-members 3£

UserGarden Party.

HouseTrinity Hall, Fellows Garden.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 15:00-18:00

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Exlusionary Rhetoric- Expansionist Policies? Reflections on the Italian Centre-Right Immigration Approaches

Please join us for a discussion of Elif''s recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserElif Cetin, PhD Candidate, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 17:00-18:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Urban governance as labour rights: The case of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

CGHR Research Group

UserDr Matteo Rizzo, Smuts Researcher in African Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 06 June 2011, 12:30-14:00

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Sailing with the Sea Shepherds: Preliminary Findings from Participant Observation of Anti-whaling Direct Action in the Southern Ocean

Please join us for a discussion of Teale's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserTeale Phelps Bondaroff, PhD candidate, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2011, 17:00-18:00

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Migration Systems, Pioneers and the Role of Agency

Please join us for a discussion of Agnieszka's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserAgnieszka Kubal, International Migration Institute (IMI), Research Fellow, Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke in liberal memory

UserJeffrey Collins (Toronto /Clare Hall).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 17:00-18:45

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

The transformation of Turkey from Empire to Republic

UserFatma Müge Göçek, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

HouseSenior Common room of the Centre of International Studies (17 Mill Lane, 1st floor).

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Conspiracy Theories As Social Imaginary: The Case of Blackwater in Pakistan

CGHR Research Group

User Dr. Humeira Iqtidar, Lecturer in Politics, King's College London.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Defining Dependence- The Hydrocarbon Society and the Dangers of Foreign Oil

Please join us for a discussion of Sebastian's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserSebastian Herbstreuth, PhD candidate, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 17:00-18:00

European Research Group

How to Manage Europe's Decline

UserRichard Youngs, Director General, FRIDE and Assistant Professor, University of Warwick.

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 18 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Politics of international administration of post-conflict societies

Please join us for a discussion of Mateja's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserMateja Peter, PhD candidate (final year), POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Human Rights education and the Palestinian Authority Security Services

CGHR Research Group

UserDr Lori Allen, University Lecturer in Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics and Society.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 12:30-14:00

Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events

Kosovo's Emergence as a European Nation

UserHE Dr Muhamet Hamiti, Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to the United Kingdom.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College, Memorial Court, Queen's Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AJ.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Why WTO? Forum Shopping for New Aid for Trade Regime

Please join us for a discussion of Dan's on-going research. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserDan Kim, PhD student (3rd year), POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series

The politics of EU energy policy

UserDavid Buchan, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events

The Case of Multilateralism

UserSir Emyr Jones Parry - Former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Rising Powers and Global Order

Joint event with the Centre for Rising Powers

UserAndrew Hurrell (University of Oxford) chaired by Amrita Narlikar (Director of CRP).

HouseSenior Common room of the Centre of International Studies (17 Mill Lane, 1st floor).

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events

The rule of law in Afghanistan. Missing in inaction

UserDr Whit Mason, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Relevance of the Real World

UserNic Southwood, ANU/Oxford.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:30

Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events

The G8/G20: the Core of Global Leadership?

UserSir Jon Cunliffe, Prime Minister's Adviser on Europe and Global Issues.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Screening of Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' followed by Panel Discussion

Joint event with the Centre of International Studies and the Centre of Latin American Studies

UserPanel chaired by Brendan Simms (Director of CIS) including Par Engstrom (SAS, Uni London), Fabienne Viala, Marta de Magalhaes and Michael Kuczynski (CLAS).

HouseSenior Common room of the Centre of International Studies (17 Mill Lane, 1st floor).

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 17:00-20:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Human Rights and Academic Freedom

UserMr S Dakarai, Mrs Latefa Guemar, Dr Terrence Karran, Dr Julian Huppert.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series

The EU as a Diplomatic Actor in the Post-Lisbon Era'

UserMichael Smith, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Loughborough.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

The Comparative Politics of Human Rights

Jointly organized with the Centre of Governance and Human Rights

UserDr Todd Landman (University of Essex).

HouseSenior Common room of the Centre of International Studies (17 Mill Lane, 1st floor).

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

The role of national parliaments in post-Lisbon Europe

Please join us for a discussion of Julie's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserDr Julie Smith, Senior Lecturer, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events

The Egyptian Crisis

UserDr George Joffe, POLIS and Dr Maha Abdel-Rahman, POLIS.

HouseSeminar A, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy

UserProfessor John Loughlin, St Edmund's and Professor John Dunn, King's College Cambridge.

HouseSCR, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

European Research Group

The EU's Strategic Partnerships: What They Tell us about the World and about Europe

UserJoao Marques de Almeida, European Political Adviser to Commission President J.M. Barroso, Head of Global Dialogue Sector - BEPA).

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Arrogance of Politics: A Hallmark of Thinking Politically

UserMichael Freeden, University of Oxford.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Climate Change in Africa

UserDr Camilla Toulmin (Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development).

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle

UserPasquale Pasquino (New York University / CNRS).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:00-18:45

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

Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series

Has the Lisbon Treaty made the EU more democratic?

UserMichael Shackleton, UK Office of the European Parliament.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

'Resilience: aiming for security in an age of risk'

Please join us for a discussion of Olaf's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserDr. Olaf Corry, Research Associate, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Mill on the French Revolution

UserAnna Plassart (Christ Church, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 24 January 2011, 17:00-18:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The integration of human rights into official development assistance: towards reorienting South Korea’s ODA policy

CGHR Research Group

UserSoo Hee Choi, Visiting Associate, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge, International Relations Officer, Communications and Cooperation Division, National Human Rights Commission of Korea.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 24 January 2011, 12:30-14:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign practices in Indonesia

CGHR Research Group

UserDr Laurens Bakker, Faculty of Law, University of Leiden.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 12:30-14:00

Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series

Immigration Policy in Italy

UserLuca Einaudi, University of Cambridge, Harvard University.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 17:00-18:00

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

'The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Border Control Regime: Consequences for the UK and Norway'

Please join us for a discussion of Marianne's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserMarianne Takle, NOVA, Norwegian Social Research, Visiting Fellow, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest'

UserGeorge Garnett (St Hugh's College, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 17:00-18:45

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

European Research Group

Socialisation and European Foreign Policy

UserKarolina Pomorska, University of Maastricht.

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Reordering South African Townships

UserLaurent Fourchard. Researcher, Sciences Po Bordeaux..

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

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

European Research Group

Reproduction of National Identity: Norway's New National Library

UserMarianne Takle, NOVA, Norwegian Social Research.

HouseSeminar Room B, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association

Selling security in the risk society

UserDr Elke Krahmann, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Bristol.

HouseSenior Common room of the Centre of International Studies (17 Mill Lane, 1st floor).

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

'1914 in World Historical Perspective: The "Uneven" and "Combined" Origins of the First World War'

Please join us for a discussion of Alex's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserAlex Anievas, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

'What's in a Label? The Aid Community's Perceptions of Success and Failure'

Please join us for a discussion of Teresa's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserTeresa A. Cravo, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

European Research Group

Intensifying European Military Cooperation: New Opportunities

UserBjoern Seibert, Policy Planning and Advisory Staff, German MOD.

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations in Weak States

CGHR Research Group

UserNicole Janz, PhD candidate, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

European Research Group

France and its Migrants Today: Facts, Fictions and Lies

UserHelen Drake, University of Loughborough.

HouseSeminar Room C, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

The Idea of Global Citizenship

UserDavid Miller (Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 15 October 2010, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?

UserAmy Saunderson-Meyer (Freedom Fone, Zimbabwe), Herman Wasserman (Rhodes University), Firoze Manji (Pambazuka News).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

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

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Please join us for a discussion of Samir's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserSamir Puri.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2010, 17:00-18:00

International Political Economy Research Group

IPE and Foreign Policy groups symposium

Chaired by Dr. Amrita Narlikar.

UserIPE and Foreign Policy research groups.

HouseSeminar Room C, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2010, 16:30-18:00

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

‘Who is Guarding the Guardians? Patterns of Government Accountability in Bulgaria, Germany and Russia’

Please join us for a discussion of Gergana's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Mateja Peter at mp423@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserGergana Dimova.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

‘Statebuilding and the subject: tolerance, appropriation and resistance in Mozambique’

Please join us for a discussion of Meera's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserMeera Sabaratnam (LSE).

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Domestic Violence and International Law

UserProfessor Bonita Meyersfeld (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).

HouseKeynes Lecture Theatre, King's College.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

International Political Economy Research Group

Crossing the River, by Feeling for Stones: China’s Gradual Currency Internationalization

Chaired by Dr. Amrita Narlikar.

UserDr. Gregory Chin - Assistant Professor of Political Science at York University (Toronto) and senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On Equality

UserMalcolm Bull (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 03 May 2010, 17:00-18:45

Jean Monnet Seminar Series

Informal Governance in the European Union

UserDr Mareike Kleine, London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseSeminar Room B, First Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Scholars at Risk: Human Rights and Academic Freedom

UserThe president of the UK Exiled Journalists Network; A female Iranian lawyer and women's/children's rights campaigner; A Zimbabwean politics academic; Chaired by Sir Martin Harris (President, Clare Hall).

HouseLG18, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

Theories of global politics

Please join us for a discussion of Olaf's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserDr. Olaf Corry.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 20 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

European Research Group

Religion in the EU

UserDr Sara Silvestri, City University.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17, Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 12 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Corporate Complicity in Human Rights violations in Africa

UserVuyelwa Kuuya (Lauterpacht Centre for international Law, Cambridge).

HouseThe Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

European Research Group

Think Tanks and Europe

UserMark Leonard, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations.

HouseSenior Common Room, 17, Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Centre of International Studies Lecture Series

"Croatia - 28th EU Member State"

UserDr Ivica Tomic, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TL..

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 17:30-19:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The return of the state in post-war Angola

UserDr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

HouseThe Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights

UserMr David Cato, Advocacy/Litigation officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG).

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

False Twins dealing with their pasts: Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Burundi

*Note Venue*

UserDr Stef Vanderginste (Antwerp), Dr Phil Clark (Oxford) and Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

'Secession and International Order'

Please join us for a discussion of James's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Joanne Wallis at jew44@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserProfessor James Mayall, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

UserBronwen Manby (AfriMAP and Open Society Foundation).

HouseThe Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Understanding New Wars

UserDr Harald Wydra, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockSaturday 13 February 2010, 09:00-13:30

International Political Economy Research Group

The New Geopolitics of Multilateralism: Brazil's Economic Diplomacy in the WTO Doha Round Agriculture Negotiations

Chaired by Dr. Amrita Narlikar (POLIS)

UserMr. Braz Baracuhy, First Secretary, WTO Agriculture Desk, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the WTO.

HouseSenior Common Room, POLIS, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Understanding New Wars

UserDr Harald Wydra, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 09:00-17:30

International Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Global Taxes on Natural Resources

UserPaula Casal (University of Reading/Universidad Pompeu Fabra).

HouseSeminar Room G, Second Floor , 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Exiled Liberation Movements in Southern Africa

*Note venue*

UserProf. Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford), Prof. Saul Dubow (Sussex) and Prof. Stephen Ellis (African Studies Centre, Leiden & Free University Amsterdam) with Paul Trewhela, author of 'Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO'.

HouseThe Keynes Lecture Theatre, King's College Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 17:00-19:30

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

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Russia in a Global World

This is a joint meeting organized by CamCREES, POLIS and the Department of Slavonic Studies.

UserH E Yurii Fedotov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Crisis of Global Citizenship

UserJames Tully (Victoria University, British Columbia).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 17:00-18:45

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

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

‘Prefab Politics: The rise and fall of Zambia's donor-built reform coalition’

Please join us for a discussion of Alaistair's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before his colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserAlaistair Fraser.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

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

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

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

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

An Initial Problem with the Nation State

UserMark Francis, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

HouseSCR, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 17:00-18:30

Religion, Conflict and its Aftermath

Open Hands and Clenched Fists: Obama's foreign policy in the Greater Middle East

UserDr. Lee Marsden, School of Political, Social and International Studies, University of East Anglia.

HouseSCR, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

European Research Group

Title to be confirmed

This is a joint ERG/Jean Monnet seminar

UserElena Lazarou.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17, Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

The Inadequacy of International Law for Private International Security

Please join us for a discussion of Ian's recent work. Hard copies of Ian's paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before his colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Mateja at mp423@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

UserIan Ralby, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Globalization after Neoliberalism’s Troubled Decline

Note change of day

UserDaniel Drache, York University, Toronto.

HouseSCR, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

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

Religion, Conflict and its Aftermath

A short history of jihād in the Islamic west: justifiable war on a religious frontier

UserDr. Amira Bennison, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSCR, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

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

International Political Economy Research Group

Small States in the International Political Economy

UserConference Organiser: Dr. Amrita Narlikar. The conference features 16 speakers and chair persons.

HouseOld Library, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 09:15-17:30

Jean Monnet Seminar Series

EU Policing and Organised Crime

UserFelix Berenskoetter, SOAS.

HouseSeminar Room B, First Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Religion, Conflict and its Aftermath

Religion and International Relations after 9/11: Increased Cooperation or More Conflict?

UserProfessor Jeffrey Haynes, Department of Law, Governance and International Relations, London Metropolitan University and Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation.

HouseSCR, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Hinsley Lecture Series

Hinsley Lecture: "Can There Be A Single Great Power?"

UserProfessor Ian Clark FBA, E H Carr Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, University of Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 18:00-20:00

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

‘The Power of Words: A Critical Investigation of the Language of Security’

Please join us as we host our first colloquium exchange of the year, to discuss the work of Faye Donnelly from the University of St Andrews. Hard copies of Faye's paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane one week before her colloquium.

UserFaye Donnelly, University of St Andrews.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Is Global Democracy Possible?

UserJan Aart Scholte, PAIS, University of Warwick.

HouseSCR, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

'US Liberalism: The Perennial Tradition in US Foreign Policy'

Please join us for a discussion of Geraldo's recent work. The paper will be circulated shortly, and hard copies will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane closer to the time. As usual, the colloquium will be followed by drinks in the Mill.

UserGeraldo Zahran, POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

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

Jean Monnet Seminar Series

Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty

UserBarbara Jones, Counsellor for Political Affairs, Embassy of Ireland.

HouseSeminar Room B, First Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

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

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

POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium

‘Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique’

Please join us for the first POLIS Staff/PhD colloquium session of the year, a discussion of Dr Tarak Barkawi’s recent work.

UserDr Tarak Barkawi, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Karl Marx and the Production Organism

UserJohn Filling (St. John's College, Oxford).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 17:00-18:45

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England'

UserJacqueline Rose (Newnham College, Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 08 June 2009, 17:00-18:45

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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