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Monday, May 21st, 2012
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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,
Friday, May 18th, 2012
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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,
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green,
Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
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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,
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Isolation and Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France
Emma Rothschild,
Harvard University,
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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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,
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
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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,
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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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,
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
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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,
Friday, May 13th, 2011
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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,
Friday, May 6th, 2011
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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,
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
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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,
Friday, April 29th, 2011
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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,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
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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,
Friday, March 18th, 2011
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Reenchanting the Reformation
Margreta de Grazia,
professor of the humanities,
the University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, March 11th, 2011
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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,
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
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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,
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar—cancelled
Daniel Everett,
dean of arts and sciences,
Bentley University,
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Experiments and Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt,
Washtington University in St. Louis,
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
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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,
Friday, November 12th, 2010
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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,
Friday, October 8th, 2010
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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,
Friday, May 7th, 2010
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Francis Bacon Conference
How the Cold War Transformed Science
Naomi Oreskes,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Fiction and Scientific Modeling
Roman Frigg,
senior lecturer in philosophy,
London School of Economics,
Friday, February 26th, 2010
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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,
Monday, February 8th, 2010
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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,
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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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,
Friday, December 4th, 2009
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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,
Friday, November 13th, 2009
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows
John Kerrigan,
professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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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,
Monday, May 18th, 2009
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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 ,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Rethinking in Worst (with Pasolini)
Rei Terada,
professor of comparative literature,
UC Irvine,
Friday, March 13th, 2009
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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,
Friday, March 6th, 2009
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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,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Conversible Worlds: Competing Paradigms in the Eighteenth Century
Jon Mee,
University of Warwick,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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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,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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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,
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