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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

 

Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1 unless otherwise stated. All welcome!

 

Early Science and Medicine

Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins.

4 February

Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
'The Earth is a Heaven, and a New Heaven': revisiting early modern science and Catholic theology

4 March

Anuj Misra (Freie Universität Berlin)
Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts

18 March

Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark)
What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images

 

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Organised by Salim Al-Gailani, Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

11 February

Elisabeth Yang (University of Leeds)
Constructing moral and proto-scientific babies: the medical and scientific enterprise of infancy in 19th-century America

25 February

Ann Kelly (King's College London)
Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained

11 March

Miles Kempton (Christ's College, Cambridge)
How TV made The Naked Ape

 

Generation to Reproduction

Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Salim Al-Gailani, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

28 January

Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield)
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history

18 February

Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn)
'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia