History and Philosophy of Science long list

House Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Experimental Democracy

User Leah Downey (St. John's College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska

User Ben Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute).

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Doing your own patient activist research

User Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool).

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

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Challenges in estimating historical crisis mortality: spatial heterogeneity, endogenous incompleteness, sample size, and ad hoc methods.

User Hampton Gaddy (LSE).

House Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

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

The myth of the naïve empiricist

CANCELLED

User Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick).

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography

User Onur Engin, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 17:30-18:30

House Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability

User Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton University).

Monday 05 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disinformation, denial, and the assault on truth

User Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

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

The relationship between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics: the irregular case

User Clara Bradley (UCL).

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

Mortality in the century of apartheid, 1940-1970: spatial and racial inequalities in mortality and doctors during the antibiotic transition.

User Nick Fitzhenry (LSE).

House Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

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

Progress is plural because science is social

User Oscar Westerblad (University of Iceland).

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images

User Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark).

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law

User Dimitrios Halikias (Princeton University).

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

User Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Decoding our Humanity

User Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Creativity for the information age: making up minds and machines in the United States and the Soviet Union

User Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue University).

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

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

Trust in the fallible: lessons from uncertainty management in the environmental sciences

User Aja Watkins (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

How TV made 'The Naked Ape'

User Miles Kempton (Christ's College).

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought

User John Coffey (University of Leicester).

Monday 10 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623

User Alexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Polari - a Very Queer Code

User Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

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

Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

Group selection and Ronald Fisher

User Robert Asher (Associate Professor and Curator, University Museum of Zoology).

Friday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery

Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine

User Keith Wailoo (Princeton University).

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Transport and the transmission of plague across settlements in early modern England.

User Charlie Udale and Eric Schneider (LSE).

House Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Arthur Harris (Darwin College).

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts

User Anuj Misra (Freie Universität Berlin).

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech

User Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University).

Monday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004

User Isobel Newby (University of Leeds).

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

User Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Where is Amazonia on display (today)? A global approach to understanding Amazonian collections

User Neil Safier (Brown University).

Thursday 27 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

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

Values in measurement: alternatives to democratic alignment in economic inequality metrics

User Alessandra Basso (LSE).

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:00-14:30

‘A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose’: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland

User Finnian O'Cionnaith, Dublin.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

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

Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained

User Ann Kelly (University of Oxford).

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Post-Kantian Perfectionism

User Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa/University of Sydney).

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic

User Justine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Eve's Byte of the Apple

User Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

On conceptual engineering in psychiatry: is it time to eliminate or reappropriate the category of psychiatric disorder?

User Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

Thursday 20 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Progress in the pipeline: cholera, politics and the waterworks revolution in Germany.

User Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University).

House Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:00-17:30

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

Trustworthiness, moral epistemic-duties, and public health guidance: the case of wildfire smoke

User Stephanie Harvard (University of British Columbia).

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia

User Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn).

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom

User Efthimios Karayiannides (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 17 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century

User Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

The evolution of sentience

User Nicholas Humphrey (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics).

Friday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

User Jim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia

User Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam).

Monday 10 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks

User Various speakers.

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

User Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Recalculating equality: data, race and environmental health models in 19th-century West Africa

User Matthew Eddy (Durham University).

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

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

People, places, and peers - fertility trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881-1911.

User Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge).

House Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:00-17:30

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

On the Reception of Christian Thomasius's Political Thought in Protestant Northern Germany

User Mikkel Jensen (University of Erfurt).

Monday 03 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge

User Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute).

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

User Maya Youssef.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Pulling away from science, epistemic self-reliance, and the tale of Thabo Mbeki

User Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

Thursday 30 January 2025, 15:30-17:00

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Roundtable on 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900'

User Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Monday 27 January 2025, 17:00-18:30

Bits with Soul

User Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

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

User Emanuele Felice (IULM).

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

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

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

CANCELLED

User Lobsang Yongdan (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A domino theory of disease

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

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

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

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

User Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century

User Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London).

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

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

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

User Jens Amborg (Uppsala University).

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

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

Symposium: 'Patient-Centered Measurement' (2024)

User Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

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

The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast

User Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

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

User Maurice Whitehead, Venerable English College, Rome.

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

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

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

User Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England

User Geertje Bol (Ghent University).

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

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

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

User William McMahon (Department of Earth Sciences).

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

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

User Alfonso Herranz Loncan (University of Barcelona).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

Anita McConnell Lecture

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

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

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

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

User Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Würzburg).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Locke's Political Legacy

User Tim Stanton (University of York).

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

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

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

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

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

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800

User Regina Grafe (Cambridge).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

User Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow).

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

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

Is science 'Western' science?

User Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz University).

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

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

Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history

CANCELLED

User Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

User Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College, University of Oxford).

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

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

User Brian Varian (Newcastle).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Models of information in structural biology

User Agnes Bolinska (University of South Carolina).

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

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

Examining the possibility of AI Affect in reinforcement learning systems

User Ben Henke (Institute of Philosophy, London).

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

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

Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution

User Anna Toropova (University of Warwick).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'

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

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

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

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

User Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute).

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

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)

User Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv University).

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

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

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

User Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought

User Daniel Sutton (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900

User Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford).

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

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

Book symposium: The Edge of Sentience

User Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

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

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

User Somak Biswas (Faculty of History).

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

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

The Oikonomia of Conspiracy

User Demetra Kasimis (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Chris Briggs (Cambridge).

House The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

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

User Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

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

User Phil Slavin (University of Stirling) .

House 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

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

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

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

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

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

User Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute).

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

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

Enlightenment Theory of Rights

User Céline Spector (Sorbonne Université).

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

User Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University).

House 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

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

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

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

The global health focus on early life: origin stories

User Michelle Pentecost (King's College London).

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

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

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

User Daniela Cammack (University of California, Berkeley).

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

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

Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise

User Aisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute).

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

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

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

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

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

Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?

User Cristian Larroulet Philippi (Gonville and Caius College).

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

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

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

User Jana C Schuster, Historic England & New York University.

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

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

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

User Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art).

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

User Clive Oppenheimer (Department of Geography).

House 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

User Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rights in Roman Republican Thought

User Valentina Arena (University College London).

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

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

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

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

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

User Sune Hannibal Holm (University of Copenhagen).

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

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

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

Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism

User Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

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

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

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

User Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna).

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

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

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

User Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

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

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

User Ms Tania Branigan.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem

User Emma Tobin (University College London).

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

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

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

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

User Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

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

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

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

User Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

User Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

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

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

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation

User Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG).

House 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

User Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

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

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

Is AI generated art really art?

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

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

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

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

User Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

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

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

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

User Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University).

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

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

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

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

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

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

User Professor Frances Spalding.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

User Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh).

House 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

User Hillary Vipond (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Faculty of History.

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

Controlling copying before copyright: a tale of three Britannias

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

User Isabella Alexander, UTS Sydney.

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

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

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

User Various speakers.

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

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

Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism

User Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

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

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Conceptualising climate futures

User Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki).

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

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

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

Limit objects and emergence

User Miklós Rédei (LSE).

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

User Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

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

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

User Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

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

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

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

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

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

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

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

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

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

Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers

User Teresa Bejan (Oriel College, University of Oxford).

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

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

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

User Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

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

Are Revolutions Justified?

User Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

In defense of the medical model of obesity

User Andreas De Block (KU Leuven).

House 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

User Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

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

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

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective

User Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary University of London).

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

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

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

User Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

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

The Genetic Revolutions

User Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

PhD Showcase

User Various speakers.

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

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

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

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

User Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

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

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

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

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

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

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

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

User Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

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

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

User Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

User Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London).

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

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

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

User Martin Daunton (Cambridge).

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

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

Unifying the notion of objectivity

User Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

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

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

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

User Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

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

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

Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery

User Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne).

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

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

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

User Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

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

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

All welcome

User Bruno Blonde (Antwerp).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

User Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger).

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

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

What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science

User Lena Kästner (Universität Bayreuth).

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

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

User John Montague, American University of Sharjah.

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

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

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

User Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

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

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

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

User Philip Schofield (University College London).

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

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

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

User Erica Fischer (King's College London).

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

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

All welcome

User Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Lifecycle of a constant: e

User Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

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

User Zuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).

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

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

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

User Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

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

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

An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation

User Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles).

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

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

All welcome

User Paul Warde, Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Where inattention pays

User Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

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

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

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

User Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

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

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

Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument

User James Harris (University of St Andrews).

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

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

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

User Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

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

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

All welcome

User Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

McConnell Lecture

User Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews).

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

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

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

User Marion Godman (Aarhus University).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London).

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

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

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

User Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

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

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

User Jordan Claridge, LSE.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Lineages as evolving processes

User John Dupré (University of Exeter).

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

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

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

User Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

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

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

John Locke and Slavery

User Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

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

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

User Leigh Gardner, LSE..

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India

User David Arnold (University of Warwick).

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

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

Why we shouldn't democratise science

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

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

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

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

User Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

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

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

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

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

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

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

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

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

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

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

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

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