Hans Rausing Lectures
About the Hans Rausing Lecture
The Hans Rausing Lecture is a public lecture on the history of science delivered by a distinguished international scholar. In 2002 Uppsala University established the Hans Rausing Chair in History of Science in recognition of the scientific achievements of Professor Tore Frängsmyr who became its first holder. The chair is named after Hans Rausing, one of Swedens most illustrious industrialists and father of the donor Dr. Lisbet Rausing. With the endowment the Rausing family wanted to secure the highest scholarly standards of research in the Office for History of Science at Uppsala University. Current holder of the Hans Rausing Chair in History of Science is H. Otto Sibum. In the annual Hans Rausing Lecture leading foreign scholars provide current international perspectives on the history of science. The lecture is given at the beginning of the academic year, generally in October.
Previous Lectures
2023
Dagmar Schäfer: "Time Bandits. Historians of Science and the Matter of Comparison"
2021
Robert M. Brain: "Rhythm as Anthropotechnics ca. 1900"
2020
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2019
Bruno Latour: "Moving Earths" (A Lecture-Performance)
2018
Ken Alder: "The Forensic Self: Proving Identity from the Counter-Reformation to the Dreyfus Affair"
2017
Karine Chemla: "The Motley Practices of Generality in Various Epistemological Cultures"
2015
Angela N. H. Creager: “‘EAT. DIE.’ The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s”
2014
Peter Galison: "Wastewilderness"
2013
Peter Dear: "Laminates of Time: Darwin, Classification, and Selection"
2012
Kapil Raj: "Bringing the World into the History of Science"
2010
Lorraine Daston: "The Rise of Scientific Observation in Early Modern Europe"
2009
Evelyn Fox Keller: "Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Inherent Activity of Matter"
2008
Simon Schaffer: "The Information Order of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica" (Publikation Pdf, 6 MB.)
2007
M. Norton Wise: "Neo-Classical Aesthetics of Art and Science: Hermann Helmholtz and the Frog-Drawing Machine" (Publikation Pdf, 2 MB.)
2005
J. L. Heilbron: "Coming to Terms with the Scientific Revolution"
2004
Janet Browne: "Science and Celebrity. Commemorating Charles Darwin"
2003
William R. Shea: "Galileo's Roman Agenda"
2002
Sheldon Rothblatt: "The University as Utopia"