Research presentations by the preceding Cabinet convenors
2026-10-12 — Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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CSAR lecture: Organic Semiconductors – From OLED displays to Quantum Applications
2026-10-19 — Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom
Organic molecules with semiconducting properties are now used as the light-emitting diodes, LEDs, in
Imaginaries of flight: avian knowledge, materiality and mobility in early modern Southeast Asia
2026-10-26 — Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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CSAR lecture: LOOP: Turning Methane into Graphene and Clean Hydrogen (tbc).
2026-11-02 — Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom
Abstract tbc Open to all. See https://www.csar.org.uk/lectures/ for more details. Book at BookWhen.
Errand objects and 'errors in the book of nature'
2026-11-02 — Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Epistemic insubordination: the natural history of coal and labourers' knowledge in the Danish Empire, c. 1770–1790
2026-11-09 — Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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CSAR lecture: Using the very small to tackle the very large
2026-11-16 — The Old Divinity School, St. John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP
Our nanomedicine journey from concept to clinic. Drug development is expensive and risky, with a 0.0
Naming names: nomenclatural stability, decolonisation, and the 'missing' Singapore Herbarium type specimens
2026-11-16 — Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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From boring to extraction: surveying, labour and the underground in colonial Assam and Burma, mid to late 19th century
2026-11-23 — Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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CSAR lecture: Looking inside the box: PET imaging and blood tests as windows into brain biology in dementia
2026-11-30 — Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom
How molecular imaging and soluble markers reveal pathology and inflammation change in dementia. Deme
Avian encounters and colonial space-making in the Spanish Americas, 1750–1800
2026-11-30 — Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Security Cooperation within Government and between Governments
2027-01-22 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
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Cooperation in Nature
2027-01-29 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
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The Economic Architecture of Cooperation
2027-02-05 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
Abstract Many social and economic problems arise because individual incentives pull against the comm
Welfare Reform and the Imperative of Cooperation
2027-02-12 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
Biography Sir Andrew Dilnot is the Non-Executive chair of Oxford University Press. He was the Chair
The Magic of Magnetism
2027-02-19 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
Biography Russell Cowburn is Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory of the Un
Cooperation as a Laboratory of Being
2027-02-26 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
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Together Now: Cooperation and Collaboration in Social Art Practice
2027-03-05 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
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Cooperation for Nature
2027-03-12 — Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue
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Title to be confirmed
2027-04-29 — MR2, CMS
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