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

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

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

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Informers Up Close: Why Do People Report Others to Secret Police?

Professor Mark Drumbl, Washington & Lee University Law School.

Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room 138.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-18:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Politics of Spontaneity

Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers).

Room I4, Corpus Christi College.

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Meet a United Nations Special Mandate Holder

Dr Matthew Gillet.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 12 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

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

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

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Ghosting and Decency

Katy Wells (Warwick) .

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-Kantian Perfectionism

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

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Working on Human Rights' Watch Responses to Major Crises

Fred Abrahams.

Online.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech

Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

World of the Right - Radical Conservatism and Global Order

Prof. Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa), Prof. Michael C. Williams (University of Ottawa).

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

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

Contemporary Political Theory

Search Engines and Democracy's Information Dilemma

Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought

John Coffey (University of Leicester).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Working as an International Journalist

Mary Harper.

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 12 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).

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

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

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India

Dr Aditi Malik (College of the Holy Cross).

Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 18 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).

Long Room, 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).

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