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Evolution and Progress: An Uneasy Symbiosis - A Public Lecture by Professor Michael Ruse (FSU) - Monday 17 June 2013

As part of the "Science, Progress and History" project, Professor ...

Public lecture - Professor Paul Davies

    'The Origin and End of the Universe'

ARC grant application workshop for Cultural Studies projects 2013 - Monday December 10 2012

         

BrisScience - UQ Research Week public lecture - Professor Peter Harrison (UQ)

   Monday 17th September  

CHED Seminar Series 2013 - Semester 1

  Secularization is commonly understood as definitive of Western modernity, and is associated with its most prized poss...

Go8 European Fellowship

Dr Sorana Corneanu, named as the university's Go8 European Fellow for 2012.

Grant from The Faraday Institute, Cambridge

Peter Harrison has recevied a grant to fund a project entitled Evolution, Athesim and Mass Persuasion:  The Uses and Abuses of Biology in New Atheist Propraganda for GBP120,000 (AUD185,000).   

Intellectual History and modernity - 'Early Modern Science and the Virtues of the Mind' Dr Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest)

  Thursday September 27, 4.00 – 5.30pm

Intellectual History and Modernity - 'Philosophy and/or Science: the Physics in Metaphysics and the Metaphysics in Physics' Associate Professor Phil Dowe (HPRC)

  Thursday August 30, 4.00 – 5.30pm

Intellectual History and Modernity - 'Science, Religion and the 18th Century Alantic Republic of letters' Dr Sarah Irving (UWS)

  Thursday September 13, 4.00 – 5.30pm CCCS Sem...

Intellectual History and Modernity - Semester 2 Seminar Series 2012

Ludwig Hirschfield Mack Visiting Chair

Simon During is now in this prestigious position at the Freie-Universität, Berlin until July 2012.

Narratives of Secularisation - The History of Political Thought as Secular Genealogy: The Case of Liberty in Early Modern England - Professor Conal Condren (UNSW)

    Thursday April 18, 2013   4.00...

Narratives of Secularization - 'Is Secularity Possible?' - Prof Simon During (UQ) - Thursday 6 June 2013

Podcast: Part 1 Part 2

Narratives of Secularization - 'Public Reason Liberalism' - Prof Jerry Gaus (Arizona) - Thursday May 23, 2013

Podcast: Part 1 

Narratives of Secularization - 'Secularization: Cartographic Sketches of a Modern Combat Concept' - Ian Hunter (CHED) - Thursday May 9, 2013

Podcast: Part 1 Part 2 

Narratives of Secularization - 'The Historical Jesus in Victorian Britain: J. R. Seeley and the Controversy of Ecce Homo' - Ian Hesketh (CHED)

  Thursday April 4, 2013 

Public Seminar Series 2012 'The Two Cultures' - May 17 2012, Dr Elizabeth Stephens (UQ)

  ‘Flesh sculpture and techno-sensoria: moving form laboratory to gallery’      

Symposium - The Art and Science of Synthetic Biology: Critical and Creative Perspectives on 'New Life' - Thursday 22nd November

        

The University of Oxford has awarded a DLitt to Prof. Peter Harrison, the Centre's Director.

       

Two grants awarded from The Historical Society, Boston

  Peter Harrison has been successful in being awarded two grants from The Historical Society in Boston.  The first grant ($75,000), with ...

Visiting Fellowship at Clare College Cambridge UK

Professor Simon During has been appointed to a visiting Fellowship at Clare College from the beginning of September 2012 until January 2013.

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