You are warmly invited to attend the 2011-12 ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow Lecture and wine tasting on Tuesday 22 May 2012. Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now. Professor Steven Shapin, … Continue reading
Seminars & Public Lectures
ABTEM 50th Anniversary Seminar “Transport & Engineering Museums: Past Achievements – Future Challenges”
Wednesday 23rd May 201210.30am – 4.00pmNational Motor Museum, Beaulieu The inaugural meeting of the Association of British Transport and Engineering Museums (ABTEM) was held at Birmingham 50years ago and our spring seminar offers delegates the chance to both celebrate the … Continue reading
Patricia Fara lecture at the Royal Institution, 10 May 2012, 7.00-8.30pm
UPDATE: BSHS Members will receive 50% discount by entering the code ‘DINGLE’ when booking. Winner of the 2011 Dingle Prize, Patricia Fara is giving a lecture at the Royal Institution on Thursday 10 May 2012 from 7.00-8.30pm. Description: Time seems … Continue reading
Modern British History Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: Professor Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Dr Kate Bradley (Kent), Professor Matthew Cragoe (University of Sussex), Dr David Feldman (Birkbeck), Dr Helen McCarthy (Queen Mary), Dr Roland Quinault (Institute of Historical Research), Dr Paul Readman (King’s College), Professor Pat Thane (CCBH … Continue reading
Cambridge Science Festival, 12-25 March 2012
The Cambridge Science Festival is just around the corner! This year, we have over 180 mostly free events running throughout Cambridge from 12 – 25 March. The 2012 Festival celebrates the boundaries that are being broken in science at events … Continue reading
Amalie and Edward Kass Lecture
16 November 2011 Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London THE AMALIE and EDWARD KASS LECTURE The Image of Modern Medicine: Professional Identity and Aesthetic Belonging John Harley Warner Avalon Professor and Chair, History of Medicine, Professor of … Continue reading
Schoolroom Science & Other Revolutionary Ideas by Emily Winterburn, University of Leeds, Saturday 1 October at 3pm
Schoolroom Science and Other Revolutionary Ideas: Talk by Emily Winterburn Saturday, 1 October 2011, 3pm How did you learn science at school? Do you think it would have differed very much from a lesson in 1911 or even earlier? The … Continue reading
Physics under Stalin and Soviets: “Viktor and the Academy” BBC Radio 4 Drama
Physics under Stalin and Soviets: “Viktor and the Academy” BBC Radio 4 Drama with Kenneth Branagh. Listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0150ghf.
POSTPONED: Literature and Science event, 20 July
UPDATE: The event “Imagination and Interpretation: Writing Science into Fiction”, which was due to be held at the Royal Society on 20 July, has had to be postponed as Pat Barker is unfortunately indisposed. It is hoped to reschedule this … Continue reading
“Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene Patent” – Myles Jackson (Director of Science and Technology Studies, Polytechnic Institute of New York University)
Public Lecture: Myles Jackson (Director of Science and Technology Studies, Polytechnic Institute of New York University), “Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene Patent”, Monday 13 June, 17:30. Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York.The … Continue reading