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Public Lecture Series "Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe"

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Open to the Public
Monday, June 29, 2015 - 9:00am
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Monday, June 29, 2015 - 9:00am to Friday, July 3, 2015 - 7:00pm

Stephane Van Damme: Geological Grandeur, Mineral Metropolis: Exploring a Physical History of Paris
Monday, 29 June,16:00-18:00
Zrínyi 14, Room 310/A

Richard Rodger: Engineering the City and the Appliance of Science
Tuesday, 30 June, 16:00-18:00
Zrínyi 14, Room 310/A

Rosemary H. Sweet: Urbanity and Science in the British Context, c. 1650-1800
Wednesday, 1 July, 16:00-18:00
Rosemary H. Sweet's lecture has been cancelled.

Ulrike Spring: The Arctic in the City: Reinventing Polar Science in the Public Spaces of Vienna, Budapest and Prague in 1874
Thursday, 2 July, 16:00-18:00
Zrínyi 14, Room 310/A

Mitchell G. Ash: Science in Zoos in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Before and after the "Hagenbeck Revolution"
Friday, 3 July, 16:00-18:00
Zrínyi 14, Room 310/A

The lectures take place as part of the CEU Summer University course "Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe." The course is supported by Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies and the Urban History journal.