PhD Showcase

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• Various speakers
• Thursday 25 January 2024, 15:30-17:00
• Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Lewis Bremner.

A showcase of research by current PhD students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Featured talks include the following:

• Kim Alexander – The problem with the ‘Pope Rule’: what past mistakes mean for the history of contraception today
• Thomas Banbury – The meteorology of the mind: vaporous analogies in medieval thought
• Leo Chu – Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and other Green Revolutions, 1950–2000
• Janna Müller – Conceptualising asteroids in the Solar System: the classification of celestial bodies in early 19th century astronomy
• Niall Roe – Charles Peirce and (early) experimental science
• Daniela Sclavo – Chile and flavour: the history of chile conservation in Mexico, 1970s–present
• Timothy Sim – The history of dengue fever in Singapore, 1965–2000
• Philipp Spillmann – The N = 1 problem in astrobiology
• Xinyi Wen – The ‘Scientific Revolution’ and plants that look like us

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Cambridge talks
• Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
• Featured lists
• History and Philosophy of Science long list
• Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site
• Philosophy Events
• Trust & Technology Initiative - interesting events
• hc446
• jer64's list

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