James Secord is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. His research interests include social history of science since 1750, life and earth sciences, and the […]
Caroline Ford is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include modern France, environmental history, and urban and architectural history. This event is co-sponsored […]
Mary Terrall is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Please note: This meeting is designed especially for graduate students, and will be organized as a discussion of short essays about Kuhn and Gillispie. Essays will be circulated to history […]
Kathleen Murphy (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Adam Lawrence (UCLA)“The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany's Imaginary Empire”
Rob Schraff (UCLA) “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
William Deringer (MIT) “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776"
Courtenay Raia (Colson School of Music) “William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
