Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

Dr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis

Karin Ekholm (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 13 February 2012, 13:00-14:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sismondi contra Rousseau

Tom Hopkins (University of Helsinki).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe

Leslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London and CRASSH, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy Events

Abaelard on The Structure of Substance

Christopher J Martin, Auckland University.

Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 15:30-17:00

History of Medicine Seminars

Fitting for health: steel-trusses in the enlightened economy of healthcare

Christelle Rabier (LSE).

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

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Technological trajectories of hip replacement

Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Impossible objects? Towards a history of modern sleep and dream research

Andreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

Dr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Philosophy Events

A Paradigm Shift in Paris [Leverhulme Lectures in Philosophy]

Christopher J Martin, Auckland University.

Little Hall, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 20 February 2012, 13:00-14:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815

Held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar

Richard Whatmore (University of Sussex).

Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

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

Philosophy Events

Abaelard's theory of enthymematic inference

Dr Bruno Michel.

Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 15:30-17:00

History of Medicine Seminars

A pre-peanut history of food allergy

Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde).

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

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Sui generis explanations: scientific progress and scientific realism

Robert Northcott (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to count organisms

Ellen Clarke (All Souls College, Oxford).

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

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

Professor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany

Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway).

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

Monday 27 February 2012, 13:00-14:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Classical history in the Renaissance: what can the Universal Short Title Catalogue do for us?

Freyja Cox-Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 27 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The narcissist and the coquette: contesting figures of sexual sociability

Julie Walsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Philosophy Events

'Nothing Grows'

Christopher J Martin, Auckland University.

Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century

Ed Ramsden (University of Exeter).

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

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Mapping consecration in twelfth-century Italy and beyond

Lucy Donkin, Department of History of Art, Cambridge.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

HPS History Workshop

'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Metaphors, similarities and inferences

Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and LSE).

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

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

Professor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Apple cultures: pests, pumps and pipes in interwar British orchards

William Burns (Imperial College London).

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

Monday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship

Jon Parkin (University of York).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:45

History of Medicine Seminars

Useful books: reading vernacular regimens in 16th-century England

Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University).

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

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

You can get here from there: 'thick' communication, interpretation, and projective identification explained

Louise Braddock (Girton College).

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

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870s–1920s

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Thomas Bewick, engraving the world

Jenny Uglow.

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

Monday 12 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Principles, pluralism and 'moral experts': reassessing the history of bioethics

Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Egoists and intriguers? Disciplinary conflict in Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania around 1900

Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Scottish critics of Hume and Smith: Maclaine, Reid and Fergsuon

James Moore (Concordia University, Montreal).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 30 April 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Commerce and monarchy in David Hume's History of England

Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 07 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Mapping during the Irish plantations, c.1580-1640

Annaleigh Margey, National University of Ireland.

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Cicero on the virtue of a political leader

Elizabeth Asmis (University of Chicago).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The rights of sovereignty in early modern political thought

Daniel Lee (University of Toronto).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 21 May 2012, 17:00-18:45