Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Escape from Biology: Highlighting the Differences Between the Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of the Modern World

Emanuele Felice (IULM).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 17:15-18:45

Early Science and Medicine

The smallpox epidemic in 18th-century Tibet: theories, preventions and inoculations

CANCELLED

Lobsang Yongdan (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Arabization and the Social Sciences in Algeria: Language, Pan-Arabism, and Nation-Building

Muriam Haleh Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 02 December 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection

Fiona Roberts (Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales).

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

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A domino theory of disease

Harriet Fagerberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London

Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century

Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 25 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire

Jens Amborg (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 25 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Symposium: 'Patient-Centered Measurement' (2024)

Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

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

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-15:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast

Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The many births of the test-tube baby: proof and publicity in claims to a breakthrough

Nick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697–1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe

Maurice Whitehead, Venerable English College, Rome.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 17:30-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England

Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England

Geertje Bol (Ghent University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 18 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it

William McMahon (Department of Earth Sciences).

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

Monday 18 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Sixty Eears after Fogel’s Social Savings: Measuring the Growth Impact of Railways in the Periphery

Alfonso Herranz Loncan (University of Barcelona).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses

Anita McConnell Lecture

Michael Korey (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Dresden State Art Collections).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300–1550)

Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Würzburg).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Locke's Political Legacy

Tim Stanton (University of York).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 11 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813–1850

Grace Exley (University of Leeds and Oxford Natural History Museum).

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

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800

Regina Grafe (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction

Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is science 'Western' science?

Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz University).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history

CANCELLED

Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield).

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

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people

Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College, University of Oxford).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 04 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s

Brian Varian (Newcastle).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Models of information in structural biology

Agnes Bolinska (University of South Carolina).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Examining the possibility of AI Affect in reinforcement learning systems

Ben Henke (Institute of Philosophy, London).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution

Anna Toropova (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'

Peter Ghosh (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 28 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt

Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute).

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

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Industrialisation, Economic Development, the Industrial Revolution and Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1500 – 1911 (with some extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011)

Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Mary Hesse Lecture

In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming

First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science

Nancy Cartwright (Durham University, and University of California, San Diego).

Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Establishing a scientific fact from complex evidence: the earth's variable rotation

Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv University).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Garga's knowledge of the crow (vāyasavidyā) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology

Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought

Daniel Sutton (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 21 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900

Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Book symposium: The Edge of Sentience

Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 13:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties

Somak Biswas (Faculty of History).

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

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Oikonomia of Conspiracy

Demetra Kasimis (University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 14 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England

Tom Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Royal Justice, Society and Economy in Medieval England: Evidence from Derbyshire

Chris Briggs (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Plague strikes back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361–62 and its demographic consequences in England and Wales

Phil Slavin (University of Stirling) .

Board Room, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Enlightenment Theory of Rights

Céline Spector (Sorbonne Université).

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

Monday 20 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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Researching the possible effects of the New Poor Law of 1834 on the health of the population of England and Wales

Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) and Gabriel Mesevage (King’s College, London) .

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece

Daniela Cammack (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Monday 13 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

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

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

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The cartographic commissions of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749)

Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

Jana C Schuster, Historic England & New York University.

Via Zoom.

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of ‘Catastrophic Technology’ and the Environmental Movement

Caroline Ashcroft (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford).

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

Monday 06 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

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

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony

Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War

Andreas Killen (The City College of New York, CUNY).

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

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Rights in Roman Republican Thought

Valentina Arena (University College London).

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

Monday 29 April 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

Michael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

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

Monday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence

CANCELLED

Sune Hannibal Holm (University of Copenhagen).

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

Thursday 25 April 2024, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism

Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto).

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

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00-16:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice

Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts

Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna).

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

Monday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum

Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem

Emma Tobin (University College London).

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 04 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG).

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

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain

Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

Milena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

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

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Des Moulins à Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850–1851

Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University).

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary

Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911

Hillary Vipond (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Controlling copying before copyright: a tale of three Britannias

Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

Isabella Alexander, UTS Sydney.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

Various speakers.

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

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism

Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s

Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Conceptualising climate futures

Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki).

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

Thursday 15 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Limit objects and emergence

Miklós Rédei (LSE).

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

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

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

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

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

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

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

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers

Teresa Bejan (Oriel College, University of Oxford).

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant

Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

In defense of the medical model of obesity

Andreas De Block (KU Leuven).

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

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden

Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups

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

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

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

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

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective

Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary University of London).

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

Monday 29 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

PhD Showcase

Various speakers.

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

Thursday 25 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

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

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 22 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India

Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London).

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

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

Martin Daunton (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Unifying the notion of objectivity

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

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

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery

Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne).

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

Monday 27 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia

Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)

All welcome

Bruno Blonde (Antwerp).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945

Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science

Lena Kästner (Universität Bayreuth).

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

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Lines endowed with lawful force’: the maps and drawings of the Wide Streets Commissioners, Dublin, 1758–1849.

Email events@emma.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

John Montague, American University of Sharjah.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933

Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

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

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion

Philip Schofield (University College London).

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

Monday 20 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)

Erica Fischer (King's College London).

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

Monday 20 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914

All welcome

Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lifecycle of a constant: e

Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science

Zuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

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

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation

Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles).

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

Monday 13 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community

All welcome

Paul Warde, Cambridge.

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where inattention pays

Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics

Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument

James Harris (University of St Andrews).

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

Monday 06 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century

Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

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

Monday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914

All welcome

Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections

McConnell Lecture

Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Can anyone be a target of discrimination? Lessons from philosophy of science and work on human kinds

Marion Godman (Aarhus University).

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

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe

Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement

Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

Monday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) about the money

Jordan Claridge, LSE.

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lineages as evolving processes

John Dupré (University of Exeter).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke and Slavery

Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England

Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 23 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire

Leigh Gardner, LSE..

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India

David Arnold (University of Warwick).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

Stephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina

Silvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

Maria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China

Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

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

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers

Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913

Asst Professor Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Moral Personality in Machiavelli

Peter Stacey (UCLA).

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

Monday 05 June 2023, 17:00-18:30

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period

Dr Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

In defence of dimensions

Caspar Jacobs (Merton College, Oxford).

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

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view

Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta).

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

Monday 29 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

Lynn Berry (Open University).

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

Monday 29 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth

Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Thursday 25 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Bayesian explanationism

Stephan Hartmann (MCMP, LMU Munich).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I

Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

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

Monday 22 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics

Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales).

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

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Not for me: on the external function of guilt

Shaun Nichols (Cornell University).

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

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Theory of Restauration

Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne).

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

Monday 15 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment

Valentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University).

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

Monday 15 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mapping the Miasma’. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic

Dr Fiona Gallagher (Dublin City University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of branchmaking

Nick Huggett (University of Illinois Chicago).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72

Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 08 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

Michael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects

Professor Hilde Sommerseth (The Arctic University of Norway).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Can present-day philosophers make scientific contributions? From philosophy in science to conceptual and theoretical thinking in science

Thomas Pradeu (CNRS).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Maps that made history: the map collections of Leiden University Library

For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk

Martijn Storms, Leiden University Libraries.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:30-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness

Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford).

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

Monday 01 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)

Gregory Radick (University of Leeds).

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

Thursday 27 April 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature

Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Birmingham).

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

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920

Cancelled due to industrial action

Dr Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

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

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought

Taushif Kara (King's College London).

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

Monday 13 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain

Max Long (History, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 13 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context

CANCELLED

Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 09 March 2023, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis

Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Truth and Loyalty

Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield).

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

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 06 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression

Marion Boulicault (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Rationalizing discrimination

Zeynep Pamuk (LSE).

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

Thursday 23 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark

Louise Ludvigsen and Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Remapping and place naming in 'Beautiful Dachau'

Please register for the talk at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remapping-and-place-naming-in-beautiful-dachau-by-alan-marcus-on-zoom-tickets-532066434027

Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues

Carol Atack (Newnham College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 20 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

Lynn Berry (Open University).

Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science

CANCELLED

Samir Boumediene (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon).

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

Thursday 16 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

TBA

Stefan Eich (Georgetown University).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century

Taylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Monday 13 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries

Professor David Earn (McMaster University, Canada).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The causal structure of cultural domination

Tarun Menon (Azim Premji University).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

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

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations

Megan Donaldson (University College London).

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

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

Jan Becker (European University Institute).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?

Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida).

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

Thursday 02 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

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

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens

Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway).

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

Monday 30 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

Zoom.

Monday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

He Bian (Princeton University).

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

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office

Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar

Professor David Green (King's College London).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science

Uwe Peters (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

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

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History

Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex).

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

Monday 23 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer

Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Against presence empiricism

Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

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

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

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

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600

All welcome

Chris Briggs, Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 January 2023, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England

James Davis (Queens University Belfast).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 17:15-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

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

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750

Lucy Havard (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office

David Green (Kings College London).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Identifying future-proof science

CANCELLED

Peter Vickers (Durham University).

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

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling

Fiora Salis (University of York).

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

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett

For Zoom link, send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk

Stephen Leach, University of Keele.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:30-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

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

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet

Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Monday 21 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany

Madeline White (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 21 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history

Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin).

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

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems

Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law

Benjamin Straumann (University of Zurich).

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

Monday 14 November 2022, 17:15-18:45

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1921

A.G. Hopkins (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan

Lewis Bremner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

Tom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge

Charlotte Johann (Churchill College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 07 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

Zoom.

Monday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892

Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement

Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Economics).

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization

Alessandra Basso (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

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

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought

Natasha Wheatley (Princeton).

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

Monday 31 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860

Jane Humphries (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations

Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

'Put on my tomb: this is what she was trying for': the extraordinary life of Margaret Masterman

Peter da Bolla (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

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

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe

Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford).

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

Monday 24 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation

Catia Antunes (Leiden).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Coloniality, global health, and reparations

Eugene Richardson (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Worries about philosopher experts

Cathrine Holst (University of Oslo).

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

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

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

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions

Eleanor Myerson (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College).

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

Monday 17 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Necessity of Bubbles

William H. Janeway (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science

Samuel Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

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

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices

Annika Windahl-Pontén (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 10 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations

Jane Whittle (Exeter).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries

James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 16:00-17:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe

Alix Cooper (SUNY-Stony Brook).

Zoom.

Monday 30 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories

Anna Guasco (Department of Geography).

Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality

Pieter R. Adriaens (KU Leuven, Belgium).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

Naftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

Zoom.

Monday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Department of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 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

Charlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution

J'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame).

Zoom.

Monday 09 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation

Elselijn Kingma-Vermeer (King's College London).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

Catherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The idea of the Indigenous map: examples from the RGS-IBG collections

Joy Slappnig, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

Yijun Wang (New York University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology

Emiliano Cabrera Rocha (Department of Geography).

Zoom.

Monday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning (to learn) from others

Richard Moore (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

Paper available for pre-reading

Helen Tilley, Northwestern University .

Zoom + TBC venue.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London

Sarah Rafferty (University of Cambridge).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the nonexistence of moralometers

Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)

Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana).

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

Monday 07 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

Axel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge

CANCELLED

Huiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré).

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

Monday 28 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

Zoom.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

Daniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Zoom.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries

Prof Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester) and Dr Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge).

JCR, Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

Lauren Benton, Yale University .

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928–1955

CANCELLED

Megan Barford (Royal Museums Greenwich).

Zoom.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i

Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800

Sophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin).

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

Monday 07 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences

Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)

Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 01 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

Minakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

Eleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

Zoom.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories

Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico

Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

Early Science and Medicine

Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)

Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Cockroft Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition

David Fox.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 17:15-18:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment

Lina Weber (University of St Andrews).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 29 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories

Online only

Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa).

Zoom.

Monday 29 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain

Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Thursday 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

Daniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

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

Early Science and Medicine

Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China

Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989

Michal Kopeček (Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 22 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

Zoom.

Monday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making money in the early Middle Ages

Rory Naismith, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Physical computations are idealisations

Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

Mathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

At the limits of China: frontiers, borders, and political geography in early modern Sino-Western cartographic exchanges

Florin-Stefan Morar, City University of Hong Kong.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 15 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America

Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

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

Monday 15 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Tropical development

Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

Jacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Thought of Charles Malik

Chloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain

João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Xuesheng You, University of Swansea.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

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

Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?

CANCELLED

Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653

Markku Peltonen (Academy of Finland).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 01 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica

Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).

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

Monday 01 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform

Ian Cawood, University of Stirling.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

Maree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

Zoom.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 25 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

Charlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

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

Monday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror

Benedetta Rossi, University College London.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

The Theatre, Peterhouse.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany

Luna Sabastian (Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 18 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832

Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

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

Monday 18 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Capitalism – a concept too big to fail?

Craig Muldrew, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

Chris Otter (Ohio State University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John’s College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 11 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England

Tom Heritage (Southampton).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries

Joana Pujadas-Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'

Kinch Hoekstra (UC-Berkeley).

Zoom.

Monday 24 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

Ella Larsson (University of Westminster).

Zoom.

Monday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic

Sean Valles (Michigan State University).

Zoom.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"

Max Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

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

Zoom.

Monday 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

Franziska Holt (University of York).

Zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Bryce and the concepts of constitution

Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

Christoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Futures

Jenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

Zoom.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao

Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link

Peter Geldart, Philippine Map Collectors Society.

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sir William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State

Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction

Amelia Urry (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

World models and intuition in the 1970s

Sarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915

Eric Schneider (LSE).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

Ellen Fridland (King's College London).

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850

Andreas Weber (University of Twente).

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Online.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades

Note unusual time

Zhongwei Zhao (School of Demography, Australian National University).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 10:00-11:00

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

Chris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

Zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Online.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939

Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).

Zoom.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

Lena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

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

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Online.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010

Jim Oeppen (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

Please send an email to events@emma.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link

Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

via zoom .

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:30-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

Kaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

Zoom.

Monday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Online.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science

Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University).

Zoom.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

Susan Shell (Boston College).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

Alexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

Zoom.

Monday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Online.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition

Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

Adrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

Josie Gill (University of Bristol).

Zoom.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779)

Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews).

Zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Online.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

Polly Mitchell (King's College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

Steven Klein (King's College London).

Zoom.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Online.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How does process tracing work?

Christopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

Zoom.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century

David Todd (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Zoom.

Tuesday 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

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

Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810

Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

The Straits of Malacca-A Cartographic Journey using Nautical Sea Charts

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SPEAKER AND TITLE

Julian Candiah (Kuala Lumpur).

via zoom .

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

Max Long (Faculty of History).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850

Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

Haixin Dang (University of Leeds).

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

David Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting

David Edgerton (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia

Noémi Tousignant (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Terry (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Monday 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

Miles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how

Joe Day (Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from case studies

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

Christopher Preston.

Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003

Harold James (Princeton).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830

Dominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Writing the history of education as social and economic history

Peter Mandler (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2020

Henrice Altink (University of York).

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science and speculation

Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

Teams.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany

Elaine Ayers (New York University).

Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor

Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

Grace Redhead (University College London).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 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

Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400

Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

CANCELLED

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from sociological case studies

CANCELLED

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

Edith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice

CANCELLED

Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Secret Soviet maps of Cambridge and the world

John Davies (sovietmaps.com) & Alex Kent (Canterbury Christ Church University).

Emmanuel College (Gardner Room).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

CANCELLED

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

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

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 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

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Polar maps and their histories: reflections on the changing fortunes of cosmography

Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge).

To be confirmed: Emmanuel College or via Zoom.

Sunday 23 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

CANCELLED

Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973

Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931

Emily Jones (Manchester).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

Friday 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

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The good news about killing people

Bryan W. Roberts (LSE).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848

Samuel Hayat (CNRS). Commentator: Julia Nicholls.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On pluralism in psychiatry

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900

Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The search for invertebrate consciousness

Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury

Robin Douglass (KCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

Sabine Clarke (University of York).

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

Marta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge

Susan James (Birkbeck).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00