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