Past seminars 2016
Wednesday 16 November
Cremation, Sequestration and the Committal
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Associate Professor Mike Arnold (HPS head of discipline, University of Melbourne)
Wednesday 9 November
Edward Dyason – The ‘Businessman-Ideologue’ and The Social Sciences in 1940s Australia
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Dr Cecily Hunter
Wednesday 26 October
The history and archives of Australian science: the beginning of the third wave
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Assoc. Professor Gavan McCarthy (Archives project, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 19 October
Paul Davies on information as ontologically basic
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Rev Dr Stephen Ames (HPS, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 12 October
What should we expect from experts? The ‘virtue’ and the ‘knowledge’ models of engagement
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Dr Darrin Durant (HPS, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 14 September
Lucifer let loose: Philip Zimbardo’s public performances of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the implications for models of science communication
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Gina Perry (HPS & Culture&Comms, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 7 September
The Proctor–Parkes incident: politics, protestants and popular astronomy in 1880
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Wednesday 31 August
Charles Darwin, Thomas H. Huxley, and the making of ‘natural man’
Kirsty Machon (HPS, University of Melbourne)
Wednesday 24 August
Conversion of beliefs
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Dr John Wilkins (HPS, University of Melbourne)
Wednesday 17 August
How Polanyi made it
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Dr Straun Jacobs (Sociology, Deakin University)
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Wednesday 10 August
Environmental governance and knowledge dynamics
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Dr Brian Coffey (Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University)
Wednesday 3 August
Astrophysics in Simulacrum: the epistemological role of computer simulations in dark matter studies
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Katia Wilson (HPS, University of Melbourne)
Wednesday 27 July
The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone and financial risk-taking
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Associate Prof Cordelia Fine (Melbourne Business School)
Wednesday 25 May
A question of individual determination? Immigrant women doctors in Victoria (Australia), 1930-1960
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Fallon Mody (PhD candidate, HPS, University of Melbourne)​
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Wednesday 18 May
The Structured Use of Concepts as Tools in Neuroimaging Experiments
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Eden Tariq Smith (PhD candidate, HPS, University o Melbourne)
Wednesday 11 May
Exceptions to the laws of nature
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Dr Martin Leckey (HPS, University of Melbourne) and Prof John Bigelow (Monash)
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Wednesday 4 May
How reproducible should science be?
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Assoc. Prof Fiona Fidler (BioSciences & HPS, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 27 April
Searching for common ground: A scant review of statistical epistemologies
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Assoc. Prof Andrew Robinson (Deputy director CEBRA | Maths & Stats, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 20 April
Exile on Luxted Road: The Historiography of “Darwin’s Delay” and Why it Matters
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Dr Roderick Buchanan (HPS, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 13 April
Vivisection at the Great Windmill Street School: Ethics, epistemology and the discoveries of Charles Bell
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Dr James Bradley (HPS, University of Melbourne)
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Wednesday 6 April
Imaginations gone viral: The implications of F. M. Burnet’s ideas about lysogeny for understanding cancer aetiology in the 1930s
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Dr Neeraja Sankaran (visiting independent scholar)