| 28th April | Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History |
| 5 p.m. | Dr Christophe Bonneuil (Centre Koyré, Paris) |
| "The Manufacture of Species: Kew, the Empire and the standardization of taxonomic practices in nineteenth-century botany" | |
| 30th April | Symposium, in the Faculty of Modern History |
| 2.30 p.m | Graduate Students in the History of Science |
| "Work in Progress: Work in prospect" | |
| 5th May | Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History |
| 5 p.m | Enda Leaney (Keble College) |
| "The Museum of Irish Industry" | |
| 12th May | Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History |
| 5 p.m | Professor Hugh Torrens (University of Keele) |
| "Hidden History? Mineral prospecting in Britain" | |
| 19th May | Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History |
| 5 p.m | Marc Olivier (Brigham Young University) |
| "Binding the Book of Nature: Microscopy as literature" | |
| 26th May | Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History |
| 5 p.m. | Clare Haynes (University of East Anglia) |
| "Comprehending Diversity in a 'Temple of Nature': Sir Ashton Lever's curatorial strategy at the Holophusikon, 1775-86" | |
| 1st June | Delta Lecture, at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge |
| 4.30 p.m. | Professor Paula Findlen (Stanford University |
| "Is a Crocodile a Work of Art? Seeing objects in the early-modern cabinet of curiosities" | |
| 2nd June | Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History |
| 5 p.m. | Simon Werrett (King's College, Cambridge) |
| "The Politics of 'Proba': Assaying nature and the state in eighteenth-century Russia" | |