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Saturday, April 14th, 2018
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Francis Bacon Conference Lecture
Un Altro Presente: on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts
Niccolò Guicciardini,
Professor of History of Science and Mathematics, University of Bergamo; Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Catherine Nall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Violence and Compassion in Late Medieval Writing
Catherine Nall,
Lecturer in Medieval Literature,
Royal Holloway, University of London,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Stein's paradox and group rationality
Jan-Willem Romeijn,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy,
University of Groningen - Netherlands,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring the solar system: Who has done it, how, and why?
Peter Westwick,
Lecturer in History, Caltech; Research Professor of History, USC; Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Hillary Mushkin & Cavan Concannon
Tracing Lines Across the Sea: Mapping the Mediterranean
Hillary Mushkin,
Research Professor of Art and Design in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Cavan Concannon,
Assistant Professor of Religion,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Between the Sun and the Earth: The Recent History of Heliophysics and Space Weather
Gregory Good,
Historian of Earth Science and Director of the Center for History of Physics,
American Institute of Physics,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Paul Hyams, Cornell University
House, Hand, and the Wolf's Head: Anglo-Saxon England and the Western Legal Tradition
Paul Hyams,
Professor Emeritus of History,
Cornell University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic Epistemic Risk
Boris Babic,
Weisman Postdoctoral Scholar Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Newton as a Philosophical Geometer: The Example of the Two Revolving Globes
Monica Solomon,
Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy,
USC,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Keith Pluymers, Caltech
Cow Trials and Murdered Rivers: Violent Landscapes and Resistance in the Early Modern World
Keith Pluymers,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in the Humanities,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A Paradigm Shift in Slow Motion: On the History of Gravitational Waves
Alexander Blum,
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and Models of Moral Cognition
Eric Schwitzgebel,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Riverside,
12:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Brown Bag Seminar: Leah Klement, Caltech
England In and Out of Europe in Lydgate's "Troy Book" and "The Serpent of Division"
Leah Klement,
Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Postdoctoral Instructor,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
On the Rise and Decline of Visual Modes of Teaching Philosophy
Susanna Berger,
Assistant Professor of Art History,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Rory Cox, Caltech
Towards a Global History of the Ethics of War
Rory Cox,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech; Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews,
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CANCELLED | Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This talk has been cancelled.
Alexander Blum,
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
12:00pm
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CANCELLED | Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Brown Bag Seminar: Leah Klement, Caltech
This talk has been cancelled.
Leah Klement,
Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Postdoctoral Instructor,
Caltech,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Film Screening: "Containment," Intro and Q&A with the film's creators
Peter Galison,
Joseph Pellegrino University Professor,
Harvard University,
Robb Moss,
Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies,
Harvard University,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Patricia Palmer, University College London
Off Campus
The Arts of War and the ‘Embedded' Poet: Incitement, Exultation and Elegy in Literary Responses to the Conquest of Ireland
Patricia Palmer,
Professor,
Department of English,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Susanna Throop, Ursinus College
"Not Cruelty but Piety?" The Difficulties of Assessing "Crusading Violence" and Why It Matters
Susanna Throop,
Associate Professor of History,
Ursinus College,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
What are the ‘Global Middle Ages,' and Why Do They Matter?
Geraldine Heng,
Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies,
University of Texas, Austin,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics
Aaron Sidney Wright,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science,
Stanford University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Our Knowledge about the Past: Some Puzzles from Physics
Eddy Chen,
Graduate Student,
Department of Philosophy,
Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Margo Todd, University of Pennsylvania
Preventing Violence in the Early Modern Town: Arbitration, Bonds, and Cautions
Margo Todd,
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow in British History, The Huntington Library,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Early Detection of Gravitational Waves: A Historical Account
Virginia Trimble,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Species Problem Problem and the No Solution Solution
Matt Haber,
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy,
University of Utah,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Iberian Voyages of Discovery and the Origin of Modern Science: A Geological Perspective
Walter Alvarez,
Professor of the Graduate School,
Earth and Planetary Science Department,
University of California, Berkeley,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University
The Rationality of Terrorism and Other Forms of Political Violence: Lessons from the Jewish Campaign in Palestine, 1944-1947
Bruce Hoffman,
Professor, Director of the Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program,
Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Renormalize 'et impera': realism and approximate truth in particle physics
Porter Williams,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University
From Violence to Order: Changing Ideas of Tyranny during the Latin Middle Ages
Cary J. Nederman,
Co-Director, Ethics and Political Science; Professor,
Texas A&M University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Historians in the Laboratory: The Making and Knowing Project
Pamela Smith,
Seth Low Professor of History, Director of the Center for Science and Society,
Columbia University, New York,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Appreciation Problems of Neuroeconomics
Paul Hoyningen-Huene,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus; Universität Zürich, Department of Economics, Lecturer,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What is ‘orthodox' quantum mechanics?
David Wallace,
Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
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Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project
Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
Lars Brink,
Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific Variables
Benjamin Jantzen,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Virginia Tech,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar
Violence in History and in Contemporary Conflicts: Why History Matters for Today's Politics
Bettina Koch,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellow,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
How is an Olinguito like a Gothic church?
Aleta Quinn,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science - TO BE RESCHEDULED
Topic to be Announced
Cosma Shalizi,
Carnegie Mellon University,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom,
Principal Scientist (Retired),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Geometrical Understanding in Dirac's Discovery of his Electron Equation
Thomas Pashby,
Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities,
School of Philosophy,
USC,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Cold War Geographies and the Making of the Indian Space Program
Asif Siddiqi,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Assessing Scientific Theories
Stephan Hartmann,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Alexander von Humboldt Professor,
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,
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Harris Lecture: John P.A. Ioannidis
Empirical research on research and the reproducibility crisis
John P.A. Ioannidis,
C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention, Professor of Health Research and Policy,
Stanford University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Overdetermination and non-reductive physicalism
John Donaldson,
Lecturer,
Philosophy Department,
University of Glasgow,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Knowledge
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Mechanics as Classical Physics
Chip Sebens, Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in the History and Philosophy of Physics, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Young Einstein's Scientific Environment in Pavia and Milan
Christian Bracco, Associate Professor, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, Paris,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Against Brute Fundamentalism: Gesturing Toward an Explanation of the Fundamental in Physics
Kerry McKenzie, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Problem of Motion in General Relativity
Dennis Lehmkuhl, Research Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Passions for Learning in Early Modern Scientific Poetry
Yasmin Haskell, Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism, The University of Western Australia,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dead Letters on Galileo's Sunspots
Eileen Reeves, Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science, Princeton University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Early Enlightenment Monks? Philosophy, History, Law and Theology in German and Austrian Benedictine Monasteries after 1700
Thomas Wallnig,
Institute of History, University of Vienna,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Alan Turing (1912-1954): an individual of the twentieth century
Andrew Hodges, Senior Research Fellow and Tutor, Mathematics, Wadham College, University of Oxford,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Fire and Ice: Exploring Volcanoes on Earth and the Solar System
Rosaly M. C. Lopes,
Senior Research Scientist, Manager for Planetary Science, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Medical Philosophers: Nicolas Hartsoeker and Cartesian Physicians in the Dutch Republic
Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Man and Machine: Reports from the Front Lines of Exploration
Jeff J. Marlow,
PhD Candidate, Geobiology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Picture Multiple: Figuring, Thinking, and Knowing in Descartes's Essais (1637)
Melissa Lo, Assistant Curator of the Dibner Collections at the Huntington,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
South Sea Dreams: Pacific Exploration in Spanish Histories of the Americas, 1500-1550
Ricardo Padrón,
Associate Professor of Spanish,
Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese,
University of Virginia,
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CANCELLED!!! Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dead Letters on Galileo's Sunspots
Eileen Reeves,
Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science,
Princeton University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Wandering Scot: A Cultural Agent in Seventeenth Century Europe
Stefano Gattei,
Assistant Professor, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Isaac and Diana's Doves: Newton's Transformation of Philalethan Alchemy
William R. Newman,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in History, Caltech,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Knowledge Society as a Practical Utopia and its Hidden Impact on Higher Education
Liviu Matei,
Provost and Pro-Rector; Professor in the Department of Public Policy ,
Central European University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing Disease: problems and Challenges in Pathological Illustrations
Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,
Indiana University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Ancient Geometry Meets the Modern State: Colin MacLaurin among the Molasses Barrels
Judith V. Grabiner,
Pitzer College,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The impact of Alexander von Humboldt and Humboldtian science in the United States
Sandra Rebok,
Huntington Library/Spanish National Research Council ,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Big Bang Scenarios Before the Discovery of the Red Shift: Alexander Friedman and the Foundations of Relativistic Cosmology
Alexei Kojevnikov,
Department of History,
University of British Columbia,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Becoming Earthlings: Citizen-Observers in Nineteenth-Century Geoscience
Deborah Coen,
Associate Professor of History,
Barnard College, Columbia University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Natural Kinds as Categorical Bottlenecks
Laura Franklin-Hall,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
New York University,
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Francis Bacon Conference
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
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Francis Bacon Seminar
A Skilful Speaker and Agitator of the Communist Intellectual Type': How Jacob Bronowski's Wartime Security Service (MI5) File Overshadowed His Career
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Cars and Civilization
Jesse H. Ausubel, Rockefeller University; Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Vienna University of Technology and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,
6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Mars with Curiosity: Mapping, Trekking, Discovery
John P. Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Recovery and Application of Greek Mathematics in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
Noel M. Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
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