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