This research seminar is concerned with all aspects of the history of natural history and the field and environmental sciences. The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place over lunch on Mondays. In addition, the Cabinet organises a beginning-of-year fungus hunt and occasional expeditions to sites of historical and natural historical interest, and holds an end-of-year garden party.
- Cabinet of Natural History publications
- See the news archive for photos and reports from Cabinet events
Seminars are held on Mondays at 1pm in Seminar Room 1 unless otherwise stated.
For further details about upcoming events, or to be added to the mailing list for the Cabinet of Natural History, please contact Mika Hyman.
Easter Term 2025
12 May
Ben Weissenbach (Polar Studies, Cambridge)
'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska
19 May
Eleanor Stephenson (History, Cambridge)
Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica
26 May
Katherine Enright (History, Cambridge)
Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900
2 June
Christian Stenz (Heidelberg University)
Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala
9 June
Chris Preston
Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?
Wednesday 11 June
Joint event with History of Science and Medicine in South East Asia Reading Group
Romain Bertrand (Sciences Po)
Sixteenth-century expeditions and modernity
16 June – Cabinet Garden Party
Emilie Raymer (Harvard University)
TBC