13th January 2015

Title: Risk and Security in the “Age of Pandemics”

Speaker: Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)

Respondent: Simon Szreter (History, University of Cambridge)

10th February 2015

Title: “The historical character of biological bodies”: the construction of the anthropological gaze in the beginnings of Romanian anthropology

Speaker: Alexandra Ion (University of Bucharest)

Respondent: Richard Staley (HPS, University of Cambridge)

24th February 2015

Title: The 1931 Central China flood: an environmental history of a humanitarian Disaster.

Speaker: Chris Courtney (University of Cambridge)

Respondent: Helen Curry (HPS, University of Cambridge)

10th March 2015

Title: Contact zones/ignoring zones: how to frame knowledge exchanges between early modern Venice and the Ottoman Empire

Speaker: Valentina Pugliano (University of Cambridge)

Respondent: Kate Fleet (Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge)

To find out more visit our website at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/global-science

The seminars take place on Tuesdays 12:00-14:00 in Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

A sandwich lunch will be served for attendees between 12:00-12:30 in the foyer and the seminar itself will begin promptly at 12:30 in Seminar Room SG1.

No registration is necessary. All welcome.

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Convenors

Lys Alcayna-Stevens (Department of Social Anthropology)

Megan Barford (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

James Hall (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

Tom Simpson (Faculty of History)

Aaron Watts (Faculty of History)

Many thanks,

James Poskett