14th October Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Prof. John Durant (Science Museum, London)
"Past and Present: Towards a contemporary history of biotechnology in Europe"
21st October Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m Abigail O'Sullivan (Magdalen College)
"Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cambridge physiology 1894-1914"
28th October Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m Prof. Angus Buchanan (University of Bath)
"I. K. Brunel and the Heroic Age of British Engineering"
4th November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m Prof. John Brooke (Harris Manchester College)
"'Wise men nowadays think otherwise': John Ray, natural theology, and the meanings of anthropocentrism"
12th November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m Prof. Hilary Gatti (University of Rome)
"Giordano Bruno's Cosmology at Oxford"
18th November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Prof. Bernard Carlson (University of Virginia)
"Invention and Illusion: Tesla, his backers, and the electric motor"
26th November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr James Hamilton (University of Birmingham)
"Making Connections: Science, art, and society in nineteenth-century London"
1st December Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr Jonathan Hodge (University of Leeds)
"Charles Lyell's Great Change of Mind about the Science of Geology"
19th January Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Professor Robert Evans (Oriel College)
"Knowledge and its Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe"
26th January Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Prof. Nicolette Mout (University of Leiden)
"The Lipsius Circle"
2nd February Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Dr Nicholas Davidson (St Edmund Hall)
"The Incogniti in Venice and the Development of the Academy in Early Modern Italy"
9th February Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Dr Gillian Lewis (St Anne's College)
"The Geneva Academy in a Changing World, circa 1560-1700: Rival claims of constancy and concord"
16th February Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Robin Briggs (All Souls College)
"The Académie Royale des Sciences"
23rd February Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Dr Richard Sargeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
"The Arts Course and Seventeenth-Century British Universities: Functions and challenges"
1st March Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Prof. Bruce Moran (University of Nevada)
"Distinguishing Sites and Redefining Knowledge: Between city, court and academy in early modern Germany"
8th March Seminar, in All Souls College
5 p.m. Prof. Mordechai Feingold (Virginia Tech. Institute)
"Mathematicians and Naturalists: Isaac Newton and the nature of the early Royal Society"