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