JISCMail - MERSENNE Archives

We have two excellent STS departmental seminars happening next week at University College London.

(Please note the different times.)

All welcome! Jon

Monday 18 February 2019 ** at 5.30 pm **

Audra J. Wolfe (author of Freedom's Laboratory: the Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science)

'Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: A Political History of Apolitical Science'

Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts building G08

Wednesday 20 February 2019 ** at 4.30pm, tea from 4pm **

Josie Gill (Bristol)

'Handle with Care': Literature, Archaeology, Slavery

UCL Malet Place Engineering Building Room 1.2

Seminars later in the term (all 4.30pl talk, 4pm, tea, in UCL Malet Place Engineering Building 1.2):

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’.