Humanitas - Professor Lorraine Daston, University of Oxford, Lecture 1
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Professor Lorraine Daston, Humanitas Visiting Professor in the History of Ideas, delivering her inaugural lecture 'Natures Revenge: A History of Risk, Responsibility and Reasonableness:', January 2013. Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge designed to bring leading academics, practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and co-ordinated in Cambridge by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and in Oxford by the Humanities Division.
