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

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history

Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield).

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

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

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Does the Baker Have a ‘Free Speech’ Case? The Expansion of Speech-as-Conduct and Risks to Free Speech

Katherine Gelber (Queensland).

Webb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Algorithmic Governance in the Majority World

Dr Azadeh Akbari, University of Twente.

Online.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

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

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

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Critical Agency and Algorithmic Governance

Dr Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies.

SG2, Alison Richard Building.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

From 'Racial Capitalism' to 'Capitalist Racialization': A Marxist View

Onur Ulas Ince (SOAS).

Webb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

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

Lobsang Yongdan (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

TBC

Irit Katz (Cambridge).

Corpus Christi College.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

The Politics of Spontaneity

Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

TBC

Katy Wells (Warwick) .

Corpus Christi College.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

TBC

Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford).

Corpus Christi College.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:30

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability

Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experimental Democracy

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

Bateman Auditoriuim, 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).

Bateman Auditoriuim, 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).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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