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4 Jul 2024: Conceived as a show of objects with "a definite national value as milestones in the history of English Science", the exhibition was also a sales pitch of sorts, intended to promote ... On 5 October 1972, Hoskin delivered the Department's first Part II

4 Jul 2024: We especially welcome contributions that contextualize CGIAR centers within the political, economic, social, and environmental histories and historiographies of the host locations. ... The goal of the workshop will be to generate the feedback necessary

4 Jul 2024: Do cyborgs dream of customer fulfilment? Logistics and economics at RAND, 1946–1960. ... Parafiction and the Human Cell Atlas. The medic in the machine: final and efficient causes in Hobbes and Descartes.

4 Jul 2024: For the final weeks, we hope to have people read papers taking different sides of a single debate, hopefully leading to a rich discussion. ... Optional:. Chase (2011), Teleology and Final Causation in Aristotle and in Contemporary Science.

4 Jul 2024: in Baroque Spain and Medical Pluralism: Spaces, Strategies and Attitudes), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council), Madrid, 2018. ... Casebooks Project: final release. January 2019. The work of the Casebooks

4 Jul 2024: Mat Paskins (London School of Economics). Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two. ... 7 November. Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick). Temporal

4 Jul 2024: of Economics and Political Science, where I was a Faculty Mentor for the local chapter of Minorities and Philosophy. ... and my MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

4 Jul 2024: If the work is not going to be published then that data should be destroyed after the final marks for the course have been announced. ... Under the Data Protection Act 1998 there were eight principles, but two of these (about the rights of data subjects

4 Jul 2024: Andrew Buskell. Thesis: Modelling culture: a philosophical examination of cultural dynamics and cultural evolution. ... Last known: Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford.

4 Jul 2024: Lauren Kassell holds a BA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Haverford College; an MSc in Economic and Social History, University of Oxford; and a DPhil in History from the University ... A talk on 'Simon Forman's Final Words; Final Words on Simon

4 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ethics in science and medicine. Paul Miller. Reference. W Reich, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics. R Chadwick, ed., Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Books. Bioethics. General/introductory. P

15 Mar 2024: March. Dimensions of modelling. Research Centre for Social Urban Modelling, National Museum of Denmark. ... Geopolitical relativities and the tensions between ‘tribal’ and national economy in Bronislaw Malinowski’s early.

4 Jul 2024: Science and technology have animated the region's multiple imperial, national and postcolonial projects – as forces for civilisation and enlightenment, political domination and liberation, and economic development and social transformation.

4 Jul 2024: and their economic uses on paper (for more details, see the project's website). ... I am currently pursuing research in this area in the context of a Swiss National Foundation Synergeia Grant.

4 Jul 2024: At the national level, government ministries, universities, and private and public research institutes became centres for the application of physical sciences to environmental questions, often with generous state funding. ... Similar aims are pursued

4 Jul 2024: Papers. There are two examination papers: History of Science (HPS1) and Philosophy of Science (HPS2). ... Final-year students from any subject in the University, including those in the humanities and social sciences, are encouraged to apply.

4 Jul 2024: Keck Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and an honorary Caird Fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. ... It investigates the economic, legal, social, cultural and diplomatic context of transnational

4 Jul 2024: As sericulture gained popularity, various political, economic, and scientific interests converged as experts, bureaucrats, and industry leaders confronted a need to organize a multiplying number of cocoon-spinners strains. ... peoples. As a destination

4 Jul 2024: Reproduction can link films across a wide range of periods, national cinemas, and genres as different as slapstick and horror, melodrama and social realism, sex education and experimental. ... 16.15–17.00. Final discussion. The registration fee of £30

4 Jul 2024: In the 20th century, biomedicine built upon this legacy to become a major object of economic, political and ethical concern. ... to prompt assessments of the roles of social, cultural, institutional and national dimensions of medicine, the life sciences

4 Jul 2024: A move to the National Maritime Museum in 1977 confirmed Jim's status as a curator of exceptional talent, cemented two years later by his appointment as successor to David Bryden ... Jim knew well that all of this scholarship rested upon a foundation of

4 Jul 2024: new national movements. The workshop will furthermore examine the importance of language as a tool of cultural domination within, and beyond, science and medicine. ... 10.30. Tatjana Buklijas (University of Cambridge), 'A Surgically Divided Empire:

4 Jul 2024: were made during the long C19 and transformed in the C20 into a major political, economic and ethical concern. ... the Public Records Office); and the National Register of Archives (for British manuscripts and historical records).

4 Jul 2024: All screenings at 7pm. All welcome. Admission free except for final event with live music, which costs just £5. ... It tells a bittersweet story of lovers separated by war, illegitimate pregnancy and social and economic pressure to marry someone you

4 Jul 2024: over time, his later work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the recent resurgence of sociological interest in Du Bois. ... It will raise questions about activism and academic work, the relations between history,

4 Jul 2024: 9 June. Jeffrey Y. Tsao (Material, Physical and Chemical Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories). ... We explore economic botany and zoology as an important strand of nineteenth-century natural history relying on systematic surveys of national and

4 Jul 2024: Spear P., India (Ann Arbor, 1971). Subrahmanyam S., Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History (London, 1993). ... eds.) International Science and National Scientific Identity (Dodrecht, 1991). Chambers D.W., 'Process in

4 Jul 2024: 1 February. Seung-joon Lee (National University of Singapore). People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China. ... Furthermore, food calories arguably remained the prime source of energy in China's national economy, which was

4 Jul 2024: Huge, multinational, unwieldy and essential; especially helpful for biographical information and for details on the economic relations of the earth sciences. ... Biographical sources. W.A.S. Sarjeant, Geologists and the History of Geology (1980) is the

4 Jul 2024: the US military as a resource for the economic and social development of Arctic North America. ... Part I: Economics. [Week 1, 11 October] Graeber, D. (2014) Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

4 Jul 2024: This entanglement of scholarly and economic interests is particularly visible in Gomes' concern about the plant's increasing rarity. ... 1 February. Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK). Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the

4 Jul 2024: 23 November. Fiora Salis (University of York). Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling. ... In this presentation we explore the hypothesis that constrained uses of imagination are crucial to economic modelling.

4 Jul 2024: Bulger et al. (eds.), Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine, Washington: National Academy Press, 388-408. ... Weinberg, S. (1992), Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, New York: Pantheon.

4 Jul 2024: The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialisation and sustained economic growth. ... And it documents attempts to mobilize its member-states to either economic assistance or environmental protection

4 Jul 2024: election year data for the period of 2004–2016 from the American National Election Studies' (ANES) Times Series Study. ... 13 October. Grace Redhead (University College London). Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and

4 Jul 2024: American Economic Review, 107 (5): 1–26. 9 February. Seawright, Jason (2016), 'Case Selection in Small-N Research'. ... Economics & Philosophy, 2022: 1–25. 2 March. Haven, Tamarinde L., and Leonie Van Grootel (2019), 'Preregistering qualitative

4 Jul 2024: Organised by Richard Staley. 28 April. Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute). ... now present on all possible scales of the Planet, but also how technologies – observational, computational,

4 Jul 2024: 4 November (McConnell Lecture). Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich). ... 25 November. Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics). Causal explanation and revealed preferences.

4 Jul 2024: Finally, the third mechanism comes into play when reviewers judge submissions on multiple criteria: aggregating these judgments into a final decision leads to a third possible source of bias. ... Created at the end of the eighteenth century, the Calcutta

4 Jul 2024: The impact of machines. More than thirty years before the 'Two Cultures' debate came into the national consciousness, I.A. ... 1 March. Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool). Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century.

4 Jul 2024: Although economics face limitations when applied to complex, large-scale societal challenges like climate change, I wish to highlight a potentially important role for economic methodology. ... Current scholarship also suggests that fashion was a means

4 Jul 2024: With the first paper applying this method to cytoskeleton research, published 1974 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, a new kind of visual evidence got ... S. Sivasundaram); Global currents in national histories of science,

4 Jul 2024: We explore economic botany and zoology as an important strand of nineteenth-century natural history relying on systematic surveys of national and colonial territories, and the eventual consolidation of 'ethno-' disciplines

4 Jul 2024: Dog Stranglers in the Park?: National and Vegetal Politics in Ontario's Rouge Valley.' Journal of Canadian Studies 47, no.

4 Jul 2024: solutions to a range of problems of the young modern Japanese nation on a national as well as international scale. ... Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its

4 Jul 2024: of the Company which witnessed heightened inter-imperial competition and a severe economic downturn that had far-reaching consequences in Company posts across the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. ... Giants and national identity in early modern