Talks
Getting to Diversity: A Talk About Which Diversity Initiatives Work and Which Fail
Frank Dobbin is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, and chair of the Department of Sociology, at Harvard.
The Cambridge Philosophical Society and the invention of science 1819-2019
Wed 12 June 2019
Cambridge University Library
Today, Cambridge is recognised as a world-leading centre for science, but it wasn’t always so. Dr Susannah Gibson discusses how science in Cambridge developed thanks to the work of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and tells of the ground-breaking research presented at its meetings over the last 200 years, from Charles Darwin’s Beagle letters to Lawrence Bragg’s x-ray crystallography.
About the speaker: Dr Susannah Gibson is a historian and writer based in Cambridge; she is the author of The Spirit of Inquiry: how one extraordinary society shaped modern science.
Cost: Free