Name: Expanding the Reflex Beyond Nervous Systems: animal preparations, tropism, and the presumption of stimulus-response sufficiency – Matthew Sims – Macquarie University
Start: 2026-09-21T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-21T18:30:00+00:00
Location: Madsen Room 331

August 2026
A war inside a war: fighting drug addiction during the decolonization of Vietnam – Claire Eddington – University of California

August 24 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstract: This talk opens in Hanoi on the eve of decolonization of French Indochina and the division of Vietnam into a Communist-controlled North, and a US-backed South. After decades of […]
Euthenics, Women, and the Making of Better Environments – David PD Munns – City University of New York

August 31 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstract: In 1904, Ellen Richards introduced “euthenics.” By 1912, Lewellys Barker, director of medicine and physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, would tell the New York Times that the “task of […]
September 2026
Multiple Routes to Enculturated Cognition – Professor Richard Menary – Macquarie University

September 7 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstract: Accounts of distinctively human cognition increasingly agree that culture is constitutive rather than merely additive, yet they continue to assume that each cognitive capacity has a canonical developmental pathway […]
Expanding the Reflex Beyond Nervous Systems: animal preparations, tropism, and the presumption of stimulus-response sufficiency – Matthew Sims – Macquarie University

September 21 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstract: Contemporary biologists and philosophers often explain unicellular behaviour in terms of simple stimulus-response mechanisms, even where it appears to involve memory, learning, or context-sensitive evaluation. This talk traces one historical […]

August 2026

September 2026