Cabinet of Natural History

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

Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute).

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks

Various speakers.

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

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 Solomon (Temple University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Isobel Newby (University of Leeds).

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

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

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

Keith Wailoo (Princeton University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

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