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Science, Progress and History
Investigating the idea of progress in history and the historical sciences
The ‘Science, Progress and History’ project, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and the University of Queensland seeks to explore questions at the interface of history and the natural sciences, with a focus on laws, patterns and narrative structures in human history, evolutionary history, and cosmology. The project is concerned with questions of progress and order in the historical sciences (history, geology, evolutionary biology, cosmology). It will deal with the manner in which ideas of historical progress came to inform the emerging natural sciences from the seventeenth onwards and, conversely, on how notions of order and progress in the natural sciences have subsequently been applied to human affairs.
There are public lectures and seminars planned for 2012 as well as a workshop and conference during 2013.
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- Professor Peter Harrison (Director)
- Dr Elizabeth Stephens (Deputy Director)
- Professor Simon During
- Professor Philip Almond
- Emeritus Professor Ian Hunter
- Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle
- Dr Gary Ianziti
- Ms Vonne Carmichael
- Dr Marina Bollinger (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
- Dr Knox Peden (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
- Dr Michael Ostling (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
- Dr Ian Hesketh (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
- Dr Tom Aechtner (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
- Dr Leigh Penman (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
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- Public lecture - Professor Paul Davies
- ARC grant application workshop for Cultural Studies projects 2013 - Monday December 10 2012
- BrisScience - UQ Research Week public lecture - Professor Peter Harrison (UQ)
- CHED Seminar Series 2013 - Semester 1
- Evolution and Progress: An Uneasy Symbiosis - A Public Lecture by Professor Michael Ruse (FSU) - Monday 17 June 2013
- Go8 European Fellowship
- Grant from The Faraday Institute, Cambridge
- Intellectual History and modernity - 'Early Modern Science and the Virtues of the Mind' Dr Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest)
- Intellectual History and Modernity - 'Philosophy and/or Science: the Physics in Metaphysics and the Metaphysics in Physics' Associate Professor Phil Dowe (HPRC)
- Intellectual History and Modernity - 'Science, Religion and the 18th Century Alantic Republic of letters' Dr Sarah Irving (UWS)
- Intellectual History and Modernity - Semester 2 Seminar Series 2012
- Ludwig Hirschfield Mack Visiting Chair
- Narratives of Secularisation - The History of Political Thought as Secular Genealogy: The Case of Liberty in Early Modern England - Professor Conal Condren (UNSW)
- Narratives of Secularization - 'Public Reason Liberalism' - Prof Jerry Gaus (Arizona) - Thursday May 23, 2013
- Narratives of Secularization - 'Secularization: Cartographic Sketches of a Modern Combat Concept' - Ian Hunter (CHED) - Thursday May 9, 2013
- Narratives of Secularization - 'The Historical Jesus in Victorian Britain: J. R. Seeley and the Controversy of Ecce Homo' - Ian Hesketh (CHED)
- Public Seminar Series 2012 'The Two Cultures' - May 17 2012, Dr Elizabeth Stephens (UQ)
- 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
- Visiting Fellowship at Clare College Cambridge UK
- Past Events
- Recent Books
- Philip Almond, The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (I.B. Taurus, 2012)
- Simon During, Against Democracy: Literary Experiences in the Era of Emancipation (Fordham University Press, 2012)
- Peter Hallward and Knox Peden (eds), Concept and Form, vol 1: Key Texts from the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (Verso, 2012)
- Peter Hallward and Knox Peden (eds), Concept and Form, vol 2: Interviews and Essays on the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (Verso, 2012)
- Gary Ianziti, Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past (Harvard, 2012)
- Michael Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (Oxford, 2012)
- Ian Hesketh, The Science of History in Victorian Britain (Pickering & Chatto, 2011)
- Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank (eds), Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago, 2011)
- Elizabeth Stephens, Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present (Liverpool, 2011)
- Peter Cryle and Alison Moore, Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
- Philip Almond, England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft' (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
- Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter (eds), Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)
- Peter Harrison (ed), Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (CUP, 2010)
- Ian Hesketh, Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate (Toronto, 2009)
- Elizabeth Stephens, Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
- Simon During, Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity (Routledge, 2009)
- Peter Cryle and Christopher Forth (eds), Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle (University of Delaware Press, 2008)
- Philip Almond, The Witches of Warboys (I.B. Taurus, 2008)
- Ian Hunter, The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (CUP, 2007)
- Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (CUP, 2007)
- Ian Hunter,Thomas Ahnert, and Frank Grunert (ed and trans), Christian Thomasius: Essays on Church, State, and Politics (Liberty Fund, 2007)
- Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, and Ian Hunter (eds), The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (CUP, 2006)
- Philip Almond, Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2004)
- Ian Hunter, Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (CUP, 2001)
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