Helen Curry

Name:	Helen Curry
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	Wed Oct 08 08:22:47 +0000 2014

Public lists managed by Helen Curry

Talks given by Helen Curry

Obviously this only lists talks that are listed through talks.cam. Furthermore, this facility only works if the speaker's e-mail was specified in a talk. Most talks have not done this.

• Maize: Examining narratives of Food Extinction
• X-rayed maize and mutant marigolds: a history of early plant biotechnologies
• Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age

Talks organised by Helen Curry

This list is based on what was entered into the 'organiser' field in a talk. It may not mean that Helen Curry actually organised the talk, they may have been responsible only for entering the talk into the talks.cam system.

• Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico
• Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic
• Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization
• Futures
• World models and intuition in the 1970s
• The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940
• Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past
• Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939
• Drawing processes
• Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science
• Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening
• Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century
• Truth AND consequences
• The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine
• How does process tracing work?
• Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia
• A material history of 16th-century astronomy?
• The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism
• Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2020
• There are mechanisms – and then there are mechanisms
• Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence
• 'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica
• How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap
• Generic speech acts and social kinds
• Harrisonomastix: dismantling the connection between experimental religion and experimental science in early modern England
• Science and empire: the view from Beijing, c. 1700
• Two views of linguistic science and its data
• Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance
• Information channels and biomarkers of disease
• A California Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with apologies to Mark Twain), or why a molecular neurobiologist landed in HPS
• 'VD is no camp': creating and communicating knowledge about same-sex venereal disease transmission in the Anglo-American world, c.1939–1984
• The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany
• Causal assessment and the question of stability
• Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency
• 'A trip to Mars by aeroplane': genres of public astronomy and the practice of astrophysics in the fin de siècle
• The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication
• 'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580–1720
• Controversy, mistrust, even witchcraft: the failure of cancer therapy with neutrons
• Science, sexuality and transnational networks in South African AIDS activism, 1994–2001
• Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge
• Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology
• Charles Darwin and the margins between flora and fauna in the 1870s: the case of insectivorous plants
• Atomic energy and Britain's position in the world, 1954–56
• From benchside to clinic: the rise of monoclonal antibodies in healthcare
• Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system
• Kepler's Temple of Urania in the light of Hebenstreit's Idyll
• Scientific uncertainty and 'sufficient knowledge': the development of a European-wide research programme on acid rain
• New light on Descartes's philosophical starting-point: an unknown manuscript of the Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• Selection and maximization
• The fall of Johnstown: exhibiting disasters at the turn of the 20th century
• What pluralism could be and might do
• Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin
• The training and practice of English medical professionals in ophthalmia neonatorum, c. 1900–13
• The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930–1945
• Joseph Rotblat: physics, the Bomb and some consequences
• Infertility – the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870–1930
• Ingenuity in the gallery
• The Peckham Experiment
• Where would we be without counterfactuals?
• Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy
• Wanting your own words: writing in the first person about sexuality and feminism
• Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800–200 BC
• Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science
• Heredity under the microscope