International Ideas lecture: "Writing Science Lives" with Janet Browne, Harvard History of Science

What do we learn when we revisit scientists’ past worlds? How might one write a life as famous as Charles Darwin’s? Why is biography the best-selling genre of all? Pre-eminent Darwin scholar and Harvard Professor of the History of Science Janet Browne, talks with Sydney’s prizewinning historian Professor Iain McCalman, about the challenges and delights of the biographical genre for historians. In conversation with Alison Bashford, this is an evening that probes the intellectual life of these keen observers and interpreters of the world of Victorian science

The Seymour Centre, University of Sydney

12 August 2010, 6.30pm

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The programs for the AAHPSSS 2010 conference is available here:

AAHPSSS 2010 conference program

"What is HPS for?"

The program for this workshop later in June is very interesting and worth a look. One theme is the relations between HPS and science policy. This is the fifth in a series of Workshops on 'integrated history and philosophy of science' involving a good part of the UK's HPS community.

AAHPSSS conference

Last days to submit an abstract for the AAHPSSS conference, which runs 9-11 July, 2010 at the University of Sydney....

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John Wilkins in the UK media

Our erstwhile colleague John Wilkins' ever-active blog attracts still more attention in The Guardian newspaper.

Elliott Sober on ABC TV

The video of Elliott Sober's lecture to a packed room on Darwin, Evolution, and Intelligent Design is now available on ABC TV's website, and is embedded below. An audio podcast is on the linked website, and also from the University of Sydney's podcast page.

Elliott Sober on ABC Radio

Recent Visiting Fellow Professor Elliott Sober was a guest on ABC Radio National's program, The Philosopher's Zone. Interviewed by Dr Alan Saunders, Professor Sober discussed intelligent design and Darwin. The podcast and transcript may be found here.