Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology

Clive Oppenheimer (Department of Geography).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)

Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art).

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

Monday 06 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future

Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University).

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

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?

Cristian Larroulet Philippi (Gonville and Caius College).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan

Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise

Aisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The global health focus on early life: origin stories

Michelle Pentecost (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution

Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465–1700

Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science

Nick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:30