Seminars are held on Mondays at 1pm in Seminar Room 1. You are welcome to bring your lunch with you.
Organised by Natalie Lawrence.
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20 Jan |
Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester)
Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier’s law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801–1837 |
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27 Jan |
Cassandra Gorman (English, Cambridge)
The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature |
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3 Feb |
Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together |
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10 Feb |
Joydeep Sen (University of Kent)
Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India |
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17 Feb |
Margaret Carlyle (HPS, Cambridge)
Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy |
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24 Feb |
Cabinet outing: Linnean Society |
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3 Mar |
Jon Agar (UCL)
What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction |
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10 Mar |
James Poskett (HPS, Cambridge)
National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839) |
Cabinet of Natural History 