Research Seminar Series, 2011-12

Research Seminar Series, 2011-12

2011

  • Tuesday 15 November, 4.15pm, Meston 3
    'Rewriting the History of the Light Quantum: The Einstein-Rupp Experiments'
    Dr Jeroen van Dongen (Utrecht)
  • Tuesday 6 December, 4.15pm, MacRobert 268
    ‘The Acoustic and Musical Origins of Harmonic Analysis'
    Dr Olivier Darrigol (Paris)
  • Monday 12 December, 4.15pm, KQF2
    ‘Towards an Intellectual History of Natural Theology’
    Dr Russell Re Manning (Aberdeen)

2012

  • Monday 13 February, 9.00am -  6.00pm, Conference Room 2 (University Office), with video link in RG17 (limited spaces)
    Workshop: ‘Natural Information ‘
    Convenor: Dr Ulrich Stegmann (Aberdeen)
  • Tuesday 13 March, 3.00-5.00pm, Seminar Room 224, University Library (second floor)
    ‘On Psychiatric Metaphor: Exploring the Use of Clinical Concepts in Cultural Theory’
    Dr Angela Woods (Durham)
    (Co-sponsored by the Centre for Medical Humanities)
  • Tuesday 20 March, 12.00pm - 4.00pm, Linklater Rooms
    Mini-workshop: 'Towards a Sustainable Future: Opportunities for Collaborations Between the Humanities and the Sciences'
    Professor Joni Adamson (Arizona): ‘Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture: Imagination’
    Dr Laura Colucci-Gray (Aberdeen): ‘A Language for Sustainability’
    (Co-sponsored by the Centre for Cultural History; the Centre for Sustainable International Development; and the Institute for Environmental History, University of St Andrews)
  • Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 May, Divinity Library
    Workshop: ‘Grete Hermann: Between Physics and Philosophy’ Free registration, but spaces are limited (email g.bacciagaluppi@abdn.ac.uk)
    Speakers: Thomas Filk (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg), Mélanie Frappier (University of King's College, Halifax), Martin Jähnert (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Dieter Krohn (Philosophisch-Politische Akademie), Fernando Leal Carretero (University of Guadalajara), Giulia Paparo (University of Utrecht), Rene Saran (Society for Furtherance of Critical Philosophy), Gregor Schiemann (University of Wuppertal), Michiel Seevinck (University of Nijmegen), Patricia Shipley (Birkbeck College, London), Léna Soler (Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy)
    Convenors: Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi and Dr Elise Crull (Aberdeen) 
  • Monday 7 May, 4-6pm, Humanity Manse Ground Floor Seminar Room
    'The Hunt of Pan: Francis Bacon's art of experimentation and the invention of science'
    Dr. Dana Jalobeanu (Foundations of Early Modern Thought, Bucharest)
  • Tuesday 8 May, 5pm, MacRobert 302 (note change of time)
    Mini-workshop: ‘Representing Cancer’
    Dr Claire McKechnie (Edinburgh): 'Cancer in the Victorian Literary Imagination'
    Dr Áine Larkin (Aberdeen): ‘L’Usage de la photo: Cancer, Care, and Collaboration’
  • Wednesday 9 - Thursday 10 May, 9:30am - 5:30pm, University Library Meeting Room 1 
    Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy III. 
    Keynote speakers: Stephen Gaukroger (Aberdeen/Sydney) and Yitzhak Melamed (John Hopkins).
    Speakers: Ruth Boeker (St. Andrews), Dietmar Heidemann (Luxembourg), Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero (Ca' Foscari, Venice), Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore College), Markku Roinila (Edinburgh/Helsinki), Jon Miller (Queen's), Michael Olson (Villanova), Gabriel Alban-Zapata (ENS de Lyon), Martine Pecharman (CNRS), Dario Perinetti (UQAM), Andrea Sangiacomo (ENS de Lyon), and Eric Schliesser (Ghent). 
    Convenor: Mogens Laerke (Aberdeen). Please email m.laerke@abdn.ac.uk for more details.
  • Tuesday 22 May, 4.15pm, New King's 10
    'Demythologising Oxford's "Great Debate": Wilberforce and Huxley on Human Ancestry', Professor John Hedley Brooke (Oxford)
  • Friday 29 June (3pm) - Sunday 1 July (noon), Humanity Manse Seminar Room 1
    Workshop: ‘The History of Science Popularization and Popular Science: New Methods and Approaches'. 
    Speakers: Jim Secord (Cambridge), Jonathan Topham (Leeds), Graeme Gooday (Leeds), Aileen Fyfe (St Andrews), Adelene Buckland (East Anglia), Sadiah Qureshi (Birmingham), Gowan Dawson (Leicester) and Tim Boon (Science Museum, London).
    Convenor: Ralph O’Connor (Aberdeen). 
    Please contact the convenor if you wish to attend as spaces are limited.