The Twentieth Century Think Tank offers broad coverage of 20th- and 21st-century topics in the history, philosophy and sociology of science, technology and medicine. The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place on Thursdays over lunch.
Think Tank meetings are held fortnightly on Thursdays, 1β2pm in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Organised by Mary Brazelton and Richard Staley.
Seminars in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students, and affiliates). Unless otherwise specified, they are not open to members of the public.
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π€ Helen Tilley (Northwestern University)
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Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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π€ Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Zhu Jing (University of Warwick)
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Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College)
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Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English)
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Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Arathi Sriprakash and Peter Sutoris (Faculty of Education)
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Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Michael Barany (University of Edinburgh)
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Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Jenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter)
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Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Ulrika BjΓΆrkstΓ©n (Clare Hall; Sveriges Radio)
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Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology)
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Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar)
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Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Freddy Foks (Faculty of History)
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Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Mary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge)
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Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Ksenia Tatarchenko (University of Geneva)
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Thursday 20 December 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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π€ Tal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh)
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Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Sam Robinson (University of York)
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Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Koji Hirata (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
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Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Joe Bassi (University of Texas, El Paso)
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Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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π€ Sonja Amadae (MIT)
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Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:30
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Renny Thomas (University of Delhi)
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Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Siva Arumugam (Cambridge)
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Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Susan Jones (University of Minnesota)
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Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Seung-joon Lee (National University of Singapore)
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Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country)
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Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Paul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
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Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Bernhard Leitner (University of Vienna)
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Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ EglΔ RindzeviΔiΕ«tΔ (Kingston University)
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Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Jahnavi Phalkey (King's College London)
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Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Ruth Wainman (University of Kent)
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Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Lena Springer (Needham Research Institute)
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Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Shen Yubin (Georgetown University)
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Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Nayanika Mathur (University of Sussex)
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Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Poornima Paidipaty (Faculty of History)
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Thursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester)
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Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Hanna Lucia Worliczek (University of Vienna)
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Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Shinjini Das (CRASSH)
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Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ David Munns (John Jay College)
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Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Matei Candea (Division of Social Anthropology)
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Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford)
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Thursday 06 October 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews)
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Thursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Serge Reubi (Humboldt University, Berlin/Cambridge)
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Thursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Daniel Cardoso Llach (Carnegie Mellon University/Cambridge)
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Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Tom Simpson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
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Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Marcia Holmes (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Thursday 18 February 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Coffee with Scientists
π€ Sir David King (Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change)
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Friday 12 February 2016, 15:30-17:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Henry K. Miller (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL)
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Thursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney)
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Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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Thursday 30 April 2015, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Patrick Ellis (University of California, Berkeley)
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Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Tim Boon (Science Museum, London)
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Thursday 05 March 2015, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Christos Lynteris (CRASSH, Cambridge)
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Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Vanessa Toulmin (University of Sheffield)
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Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University)
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Thursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ David A. Kirby (University of Manchester)
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Thursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Peter Galison (Harvard University)
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Thursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Charlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre KoyrΓ©, Paris)
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Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh)
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Thursday 15 May 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Helen Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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Thursday 01 May 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield)
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Thursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Milena Wazeck (University of East Anglia)
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Thursday 13 February 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Richard Maguire (University of East Anglia)
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Thursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Mandisa Mbali (University of Stellenbosch)
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Thursday 02 May 2013, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Etienne Benson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
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Thursday 25 April 2013, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Martin Theaker (Faculty of History)
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Thursday 07 March 2013, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Rachel Rothschild (Yale University)
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Thursday 21 February 2013, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Anders EkstrΓΆm (Uppsala University)
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Thursday 07 February 2013, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Anne Hanley (Faculty of History)
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Thursday 24 January 2013, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Martin Underwood (University of Oxford)
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Thursday 22 November 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Boris Jardine (Science Museum, London)
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Thursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Katherine Angel (University of Warwick)
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Thursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA)
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Thursday 11 October 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Tuesday 08 May 2012, 17:00-19:00
π CRASSH, Seminar Room
π€ Lydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester)
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Tuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Julie Walsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Leslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London and CRASSH, Cambridge)
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Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Alison McDougall-Weil (Engineering Design Centre)
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Tuesday 31 January 2012, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Atsuko Naono (School of Oriental and African Studies)
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Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Elena Aronova (University of California, San Diego)
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Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Fran Bigman (Faculty of English)
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Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Michal Murawski (Department of Social Anthropology)
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Tuesday 01 November 2011, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Christos Lynteris (CRASSH)
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Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Malcolm Thompson (University of British Columbia)
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Tuesday 16 November 2010, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Boris Jardine (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)
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Tuesday 09 February 2010, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
π€ Professor Simon Schaffer
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Tuesday 03 March 2009, 13:00-14:30
π Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).
Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00
