{"id":544,"date":"2016-01-14T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/?p=544"},"modified":"2016-02-10T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:39:29","slug":"wunderkammer-reading-group-spring-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sciencecomma\/2016\/01\/14\/wunderkammer-reading-group-spring-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Wunderkammer reading group, Spring programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Centre for the History of the Sciences&#8217; reading group, meeting alternate Tuesdays, 17:30 in the Unicorn Inn, St Dunstan&#8217;s <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>**except Week 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>26 January 2016 (Week 14) \u2013 <strong>Technology, Groups &amp; Users<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christina Lindsay, \u201cFrom the Shadows: Users as Designers, Producers, Marketers, Distributors, and Technical Support\u201d, in Nelly Oudshoorn and T.J. Pinch (eds), <em>How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technologies<\/em> (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003), pp. 29-50.<\/li>\n<li>Lars Backstrom et al, \u201cGroup Formation in Large Social Networks: Membership, Growth, and Evolution\u201d, in <em>Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining<\/em> (Philadelphia: ACM Press, 2006) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/~lars\/kdd06-comm.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/~lars\/kdd06-comm.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9 February 2016 (Week 16) \u2013 <strong>Modernism and Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul March-Russell, \u201cModernism <em>and<\/em> Science Fiction\u201d and \u201cPulp Modernism\u201d, in <em>Modernism and Science Fiction<\/em> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 1-10 and 85-116. <strong>(Paul will join us for this week)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sara Danius, \u201cThe Antitechnological Bias and Other Modernist Myths: Literature and the Question of Technology\u201d, in <em>The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics<\/em> (Cornell University Press, 2002), pp. 25-54.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>23 February 2016 (Week 18) \u2013 <strong>Ian Hacking <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ian Hacking, <em>Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 1-31<\/li>\n<li>Ian Hacking, <em>The Emergence of Probability: a Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975\/2006), pp. 1-48.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>8 March 2016 (Week 20) \u2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/events\/allevents.html?eid=18110&amp;view_by=day&amp;date=20160308&amp;category=Lectures\">Animal Histories Special Event<\/a><\/strong> <strong>**6pm\u00a0<b>Grimond Lecture Theatre 2 (GLT2)<\/b>**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Guest lecture Amanda Rees (University of York):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u201cAnthropomorphising the Anthropocene: The Pragmatics, Politics and Poetics of Animal Agency\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Book launch with wine reception to follow in honour of \u00a0Kaori Nagai, Karen Jones, Donna Landry, Caroline Rooney, Monica Mattfeld, and Charlotte Sleigh (eds), <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9781137376275\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmopolitan Animals<\/a><\/i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and other recent animal publications by Kent staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>22 March 2016 (Week 22) <strong>Euclid in Victorian Education <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice Jenkins, \u201cGenre and Geometry: Victorian Mathematics and the Study of Literature and Science\u201d, in Ben\u00a0Marsden,\u00a0Hazel Hutchison\u00a0and Ralph O&#8217;Connor\u00a0(eds.),\u00a0<em>Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914 <\/em>(London: Pickering &amp; Chatto, 2013), pp. 111-123.<\/li>\n<li>Joan L. Richards, \u201cEuclid and the English Schoolchild\u201d, in <em>Mathematical Visions: the Pursuit of Geometry in Victorian England<\/em> (Boston: Academic Press, 1988), pp. 161-200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Readings will be available in hard copy in the School of History Office Post Room. Any queries contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/staff\/profiles\/higgitt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rebekah Higgitt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for the History of the Sciences&#8217; reading group, meeting alternate Tuesdays, 17:30 in the Unicorn Inn, St Dunstan&#8217;s **except Week 20 &nbsp; 26 January 2016 (Week 14) \u2013 Technology, Groups &amp; Users Christina Lindsay, \u201cFrom the Shadows: Users as Designers, Producers, Marketers, Distributors, and Technical Support\u201d, in Nelly Oudshoorn and T.J. 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