STS Departmental Seminars, Term 2
All seminars are in UCL Malet Place Engineering Building Room 1.2, unless otherwise stated.
Tea from 4pm, talk from 4.30pm.
16 January 2019
Rebecca Wright (Northumbria University)
'68 Degrees: Health, Energy and Politics in New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code, 1918-1968'
23 January 2019 (Haldane Lecture - Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, starts 6pm)
Massimiano Bucchi (STS programme, Università di Trento)
‘Geniuses, Heroes and Saints: How the Nobel Prize has (Re)Invented the Public Image of Science’
18 February 2019 (Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts building G08)
Audra J. Wolfe
'Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: A Political History of Apolitical Science'
20 February 2019
Josie Gill (Bristol)
'Handle with Care': Literature, Archaeology, Slavery
6 March 2019
Elaine Leong (UCL History/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
'Learning medicine by the book in early modern England'
13 March 2019
Angela Saini
‘Bias and uncertainty: Why science isn’t always about the facts’
(Talk and Q&A with the author of the STS OneBook, Inferior)
20 March 2019
Rob Iliffe (Oxford)
‘Creativity and the Invention of the Scientific Genius, 1740-1860’.