Cabinet of Natural History

Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica

Eleanor Stephenson (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 19 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Aristotle on what geometry is about

Chiara Martini (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction?

Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900

Katherine Enright (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 26 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The pragmatic vindication of warranted belief

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Mobilizing medicine

Eram Alam (Harvard University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Coffee with Scientists

TheCultureLab

Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL).

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

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala

Christian Stenz (Heidelberg University).

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

Monday 02 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ahmad Elabbar (Darwin College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Rausing Lecture

But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?

Chris Preston.

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

Monday 09 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Science advice under uncertainty

Amy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 13 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments

Rebecca L. Jackson (Durham University).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 13:00-14:30