Departmental Seminars
Seminars are held on Thursdays from 4.30 to 6.00pm in Seminar Room 2. There is tea beforehand from 4pm in Seminar Room 1.
Organised by Karin Ekholm.
Easter Term 2012
| 26 April | Marie-Françoise Besnier (GKAB Project, HPS, Cambridge) Textual transmission and hypertextuality in ancient Mesopotamia: the example of the divinatory series šumma ālu and šumma izbu (second to first millennia BC) |
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| 3 May | Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen) 'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of? |
| 10 May | Khadija Carroll La (Newton Fellow, HPS, Cambridge) Colonial classification |
| 17 May | Miriam R. Levin (Case Western Reserve University) Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914 |
| 24 May | Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture (Mill Lane Lecture Room 1) Thomas Schlich (McGill University) The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control |
| Wed 30 May | Special Seminar Steven Shapin (Harvard University) The sciences of subjectivity |