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Thursday, April 6th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar

The Expenses of Sovereignty: Federal Finance, Dependence, and Allegiance in the Early U.S. Territories
Greg Ablavsky, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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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,
8:00pm 9:00pm
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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,
8:00pm 9:00pm
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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,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Worrying about Weeds: Exotic Plants and Biological Invasions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Paolo Squatriti, Associate Professor of Italian, University of Michigan,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial / History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Credit, Thanks, and Blame in Print: the Strategies of Conrad Gesner (1516-65)
Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

How Did the Humanists Define Antiquity? Historical Periodization and the Origins of Classical Scholarship
Frederic Clark, Postdoctoral Instructor, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
9:00am 5/10 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 6:00pm
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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 7:30pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Plague, Pollution and the Poor in late Renaissance Florence
John Henderson, Department of History, Birkbeck College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Watching a Renaissance Cartographer at Work: The Construction of Waldseemüller's Carta marina (1516)
Chet Van Duzer, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Encyclopedism
Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Throwaway Society? A New Look at the History of Waste and Wasting in Modern and Contemporary History
Frank Trentmann, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Doing Good and Doing Evil: The Issue of Robustness
Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Junípero Serra and the Spanish Craze
Richard L. Kagan, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William and Myrtle Harris Seminar on Science and Civilization

Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Andrew Robinson, Author and Journalist,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

What Entanglement Might be Telling US: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time
Jenann Ismael, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Aspects of Mathematical Explanation
Marc Lange, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Thomas Jefferson and the Meaning of Religious Freedom
John A. Ragosta, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Slavery's Scientific Management: Plantation Accounts in Antebellum America
Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History, Harvard Business School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Model Gettier Cases and Metacognition
Jennifer Nagel, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Final Passages: Slave Trafficking from the Caribbean to North America
Gregory E. O'Malley, Assistant Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome
Daniel Stolzenberg, Department of History, UC Davis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
Edward J. Larson, University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law, Pepperdine University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion
Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English , University of Maryland,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green, Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

The Afterlife of Isaac Newton: Accidents of the Archive and the History of Science
Sarah Dry, Independent Scholar,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Isolation and Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Archaeologies of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space
Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Classics, Art History; Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Hollywood's First Wave of "Holocaust" Films: From Frank Sinatra to Anne Frank
Lawrence Baron, Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History, Department of History, San Diego State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Changing Visions of the Last Supper in Early Modern Europe
Anthony Grafton, Professor of History, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

'Throw That Junk!': The Art of the Movie in Citizen Kane
Jeffrey Knapp, Chancellor's Professor of English, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Where's recursion?
Daniel Everett, dean of arts and sciences, Bentley University,
9:00am 5/7 5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference

Molecular Biology and Intellectual Property in the Age of Biocapitalism
Myles W. Jackson, professor of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Polytechnic Institute and Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University,
4:30pm 5:30pm
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Francis Bacon Conference

Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene
Myles W. Jackson, professor of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Polytechnic Institute and Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Écrasez l'infâme: Voltaire and the Battle for Religious Liberty
Edwin Curley, professor of philosophy, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

A Case of the Nerves: William James and Neurasthenia in His Era
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, professor of history, Smith College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Reenchanting the Reformation
Margreta de Grazia, professor of the humanities, the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Mumro Memorial Seminar

What Can We Learn from Analogy in Mathematics?
Paul Bartha, associate professor of philosophy, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

The Apples of Our Eyes: Art, Intellectual Property and American Fruits
Daniel J. Kevles, J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, Caltech, and professor of history, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar—cancelled

Daniel Everett, dean of arts and sciences, Bentley University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Experiments and Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt, Washtington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Evolution, Risk and Rational Decision
Samir Okasha, professor of philosophy of science, Department of Philosophy, Bristol University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Walther Rathenau's Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul
Shulamit Volkov, professor of modern history, Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Does Kant have a Pre-Newtonian Conception of Force?: How the Balance Argument Works
Sheldon Smith, associate professor of philosophy, UCLA,
9:00am 5/9 5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference

How the Cold War Transformed Science
Naomi Oreskes, Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Fiction and Scientific Modeling
Roman Frigg, senior lecturer in philosophy, London School of Economics,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Manufacturing Memories
Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor social ecology and professor of law and cognitive science, UC Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

The Self's Silent Partners: American Publishing and the Invention of Autobiography
Christopher Hunter, instructor, Lehigh University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Paradise, Hell, and Imperial Geopolitics in Oviedo's Summary of the Natural History of the Indies (1526)
Nicolas Wey-Gomez, visiting associate professor of the history of Science, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Did Darwin Write the Origin of Species Backwards?
Elliott Sober, professor of philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows
John Kerrigan, professor of English, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Coherence, Causation, and Confirmation: How the Causal Relations between Hypothesis and Evidence Matter
Richard Scheines, professor of philosophy, Machine Learning Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

The Religious Rise of Civilizations
Scott Atran, University of Michigan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris ,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Rethinking in Worst (with Pasolini)
Rei Terada, professor of comparative literature, UC Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Representation and Modest Scepticism in Hume's Metaphysics of Space
Donald Ainsle, professor of philosophy, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

From Professor to Crusader: Galileo Transformed by His Telescope
John L. Heilbron, professor emeritus of history and vice chancellor emeritus, UC Berkeley, honory fellow, Worcester College, Oxford,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Conversible Worlds: Competing Paradigms in the Eighteenth Century
Jon Mee, University of Warwick,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

The British Intercolonial Slave Trade in the Development of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Gregory O'Malley, Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in History, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Putting the Pieces Together: Modeling Integrated Cognition
David Danks, associate professor of philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

The 'Quixote' Myth and the New Eastern Europe: A Hermeneutic Study Based on Films
Jorge Latorre, University of Navarre,