Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Departmental Seminars
Michaelmas Term 2014
Organised by Richard Staley
16 October
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (HPS, Cambridge)
Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
23 October
Boris Jardine (HPS, Cambridge)
Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933–1972
30 October
Geoffrey Cantor (University College London)
New perspectives on the Great Exhibition
6 November
No seminar
12 and 13 November at 5pm, Robinson College Auditorium – note unusual times and place
Peter Galison (Harvard University) delivering the Clare Hall Tanner Lectures: 'Science, secrecy and the private self'
Commentators include John Forrester and Simon Schaffer
20 November
Howard Hotson (University of Oxford)
Age of iron, age of gold: the Thirty Years War, the German reformed diaspora, and the golden age of the Dutch universities
27 November
Brendan Clarke (University College London)
Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence
Seminars are held on Thursdays from 4.30 to 6.00pm in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. There is tea beforehand from 4pm in Seminar Room 1.
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