• Epistemology Seminar: Viviane Fairbank (58勛圖 & Stirling)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58勛圖 & Stirling) Should Science Journalists Know About Science? Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researchers unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of both sides: those…

  • FPST Seminar – Tommy Curry (Edinburgh)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Phallicism as Racism against the Male Target: Dehumanization, Misandric Aggression, and the Splitting of Gender. Abstract: Much of the current theory explaining the vulnerability of racialized outgroup males focus on death. In Adam Joness (2000) account of gendercide as well as Jim Sidaniuss (1999) theory of Social Dominance, outgroup or subordinate males become specifically…

  • FPST Seminar – Rebecca Earle (Warwick) [online only]

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title:A Very Large Peruvian Painting Abstract:This talk is in some ways about a missing object in search of a satisfying narrative frame. More concretely, its about a painting. The painting was made in Lima in 1791, and was intended to be sent to King Charles IV of Spain, but, as a result of a series…