Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Mikkel Jensen (University of Erfurt).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

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

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

Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Matthew Eddy (Durham University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Title to be confirmed

Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

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

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Efthimios Karayiannides (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

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

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

Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University)​.

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Miriam Soloman (Temple University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-Kantian Perfectionism

Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

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

Finnian O'Cionnaith, Dublin.

Via Zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Neil Safier (Brown University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Title to be confirmed

Vikram Visana (University of Leicester).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

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

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

Charlie Udale and Eric Schneider (LSE)​.

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

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

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

Keith Wailoo (Princeton University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Title to be confirmed

John Coffey (University of Leicester).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue University).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law

Dimitrios Halikias (Princeton University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

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.​

Nick Fitzhenry (LSE)​.

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability

Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton University).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

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

Onur Engin, University of Cambridge.

Via Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experimental Democracy

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

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860

Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 19 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Title to be confirmed

Sophie Joscelyne (University College London).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 26 May 2025, 17:00-18:30