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Thursday, February 20th, 2020
9:00am
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2/21
5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference
Transnational Transactions: Negotiating the Movement of Knowledge Across Borders
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Islamic Maps: From the Earth to the Moon and the Cosmos
Karen Pinto,
Associate Research Professor,
College of Innovation and Design,
Boise State University,
Friday, November 8th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
An Ordinary Arab Ship, and Its Stories of Early Globalism
Geraldine Heng,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perceval Professor in Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture,
Department of English,
University of Texas at Austin,
Friday, November 1st, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Transforming the Italian Landscape in the Middle Ages: Humans, Climate, and the Environment
Ned Schoolman,
Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
University of Nevada, Reno,
Monday, October 28th, 2019
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Contestation and Representation: Community, Conflict, and History in Los Angeles
Lizeth Ramirez,
Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures,
UCLA,
Dalena Sanderson-Hunter,
Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures,
UCLA,
Devin Fitzgerald,
Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing,
UCLA,
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
The Airing of Grievances: Are the Humanities Bullshit?
Gabriel Rosenberg,
Assistant Professor in Women's Studies,
Duke University,
Friday, October 11th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
How Green Was My Night Soil
David Howell,
Professor of Japanese History and Chair,
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Harvard University,
Friday, August 30th, 2019
9:00am
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8/31
5:00pm
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Does Privacy Still Matter? The Complexity of Data Privacy Regulations
Rona Yu,
Undergraduate Student (junior),
Computer Science,
Caltech,
Monday, May 20th, 2019
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Leonardo da Vinci: History of the Earth and the Fate of Man
Paolo Galluzzi,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Historian of Science, Director of the Galileo Museum, Florence, Italy,
- Public Event
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Maps, Monsters, and Natural History in the Age of Exploration
Surekha Davies,
Cultural Historian and InterAmericas Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library,
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series
A Broken Promise? The Origin of Post-Cold War NATO Expansion
Mary Sarotte,
Research Associate in Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Associate in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, December 7th, 2018
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford,
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU, Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York,
Monday, November 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Towards a Global History of Biodiversity
Daniel Lewis,
Lecturer in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington Library,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Space Barons and the New Space Age
Christian Davenport,
Author, Staff Writer,
The Washington Post,
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Science vs. Intuition: Why Scientific Ideas Elude the Human Mind
Andrew Shtulman,
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Psychology,
Occidental College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Was the First Crusade Really That Violent?
Jay Rubenstein,
Professor of History,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Collective Violence in Rural Medieval Japan
Morten Oxenboell,
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Indiana University Bloomington,
Monday, April 16th, 2018
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
"By far the most important event in my life": Charles Darwin's recollections of his voyage on HMS Beagle
Janet Browne,
Aramont Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,
Friday, April 13th, 2018
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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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,
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
'Famous Farriers I have known:' Farriery Manuals and Vernacular Expertise in Renaissance Italy
Karl Appuhn,
Associate Professor of History and Italian,
New York University,
Monday, March 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America
Christine Filippone,
Associate Professor,
Millersville University ,
Monday, February 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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,
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED | William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series
This talk has been cancelled.
Wim Decock,
Research Professor of Legal History, Universities of Leuven and Liège; Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History; Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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,
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Reputation Management in late Eighteenth-century England: Angelica Kauffman, the Women and the Men
Amanda Vickery,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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,
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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,
Monday, May 22nd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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,
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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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,
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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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,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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,
Friday, May 5th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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