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STS Research Seminar - Dr Alex Wragge-Morley (UCL History) - Weds 21st November
21 November 2018, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
On Wednesday 21st November, Dr Alex Wragge-Morley will visit the department to give his talk 'Aesthetic Sciences: Empiricism and Embodied Intersubjectivity in the early 18th Century and Beyond'.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Department of Science and Technology Studies – Department of Science and Technology Studies.0207 6791328
Location
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Room 11045: Roberts Building rm 110Torrington PlaceLondonWC1E 7JEUnited Kingdom
The STS Research Seminar series allows the department to exhibit some of the most interesting recent research in our field. We invite speakers both from UCL and the wider community to present their research to a varied and curious audience. On Wednesday 21st November, Dr Alex Wragge-Morley will visit the department to give his talk 'Aesthetic Sciences: Empiricism and Embodied Intersubjectivity in the early 18th Century and Beyond'. Abstract to follow.
About the Speaker
Dr Alex Wragge-Morley
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL History
Alexander Wragge-Morley is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working on the history of science in early modern Europe, focusing on Britain in the period 1650-1750. He is currently working on two projects, both of which concern the place of different kinds of experience - bodily, affective, and aesthetic - in the production of knowledge.
The first is a new study of the role of bodily and aesthetic pleasure in the emergence of the empirical sciences, entitled Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720. Meanwhile, the second project, entitled The Medical Origins of Aesthetics, 1700-1750, will reassess the crucial role of medical discourses and practices in the emerging discourses of both aesthetics and the empirical sciences. Starting with medicine, this project will expand to include a wide range of discourses about the relationship between human difference - including class, gender, and race - and the capacity for sensory experience.
Alexander holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. He has previously taught at the University of Oxford, New York University and University College London, and has held a postdoctoral fellowship jointly at the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.