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Friday, April 21st, 2017
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar
Did Edward Gibbon Meet Yelü Chucai?: Detecting Chinese Influence on European Historiography about the Mongol Empire
Matthew Mosca,
Assistant Professor of History,
University of Washington,
Thursday, April 6th, 2017
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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,
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
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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,
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
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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,
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
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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,
Thursday, November 10th, 2016
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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,
Monday, October 17th, 2016
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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,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
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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,
Friday, April 15th, 2016
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
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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,
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
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Thursday, May 21st, 2015
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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,
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
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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,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
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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,
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
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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,
Monday, April 6th, 2015
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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,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
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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,
Monday, January 26th, 2015
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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,
Friday, October 17th, 2014
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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,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
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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,
Friday, May 9th, 2014
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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,
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
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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,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
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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,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
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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,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
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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,
Monday, March 24th, 2014
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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,
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Encyclopedism
Emily Steiner,
Department of English,
University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
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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,
Monday, January 13th, 2014
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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,
Monday, January 6th, 2014
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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,
Monday, May 20th, 2013
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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,
Friday, April 12th, 2013
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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,
Friday, March 15th, 2013
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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,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
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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,
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
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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,
Friday, February 15th, 2013
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Model Gettier Cases and Metacognition
Jennifer Nagel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Toronto,
Monday, February 11th, 2013
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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,
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome
Daniel Stolzenberg,
Department of History,
UC Davis,
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