Humanities and Science - Oxford Talks

Humanities and Science

In 2014-15 TORCH’s headline series will focus on the relationship between the humanities and the sciences, exploring how new answers can be found – and new research questions can be set – by bringing the disciplines together.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Hannah Penny (University of Oxford, Humanities Division)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Tuesday 10 February 2015

13:00 - Randomness and Order
Alison Etheridge, Christopher Timpson, Ian Walmsley, Jonathan Cross

Wednesday 11 February 2015

13:00 - Faith and Wisdom in Science
Ard A. Louis, John Christie, Sally Shuttleworth, Tom McLeish

Tuesday 24 February 2015

13:00 - Representing Science
Annie Cattrell, Daniel O'Connor, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Jason Gaiger, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

Wednesday 25 February 2015

13:00 - Observing by Hand
Prof. Chris Lintott (Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford), Martin Kemp, Omar Nasim, Stephen Johnston

Monday 9 March 2015

13:00 - Culture and Technology
Andrew Wilson, Fritz Vollrath, Gregory Radick, Lionel Tarassenko, Maria Blanco

Wednesday 11 March 2015

13:00 - The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
Alex Butterworth, Harvey Brown, Javier Lezaun, Pedro Ferreira, Xenia de la Ossa

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Editor: Anne Bowtell