Public seminar series - Narrative Science - Apr-Jun 2019 - London

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30/4/2019

• Neil Tarrant - The Roman Index and Arnald of Villanova: The Rejection of Albert the Great’s Astrology
• Heike Hartung - Longevity Narratives: From Life Span Optimism to Statistical Panic

14/5/2019

• Sally Horrocks and Paul Merchant - Scientists’ narratives in An Oral History of British Science
• Sarah Dillon - “The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers”: Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the Implications of Gendering AI 

28/5/2019

• Emily Hayes - Fashioned in the light of physics: the scope and methods of Halford Mackinder's geography
• Dominic Berry - Biological engineering as genre

18/6/2019

• Veronika Lipphard - Ethnicizing isolation: How narratives guide genetic research in vulnerable populations
• Will Tattersdill - What if dinosaurs survived? Or, reading alternate natural history in science fiction and non-fiction of the late twentieth century