Humanities and Science: Culture and Technology

An interdisciplinary discussion exploring culture’s interaction
with technology Dr Maria Blanco (Associate Professor in Spanish)
examines how the question of culture’s interaction with technology
gets interesting—not to say sticky—when we broaden our scope beyond
the confines of Western Europe and the United States to encompass
other parts of the world. In response, Professor Fritz Vollrath
(Academic Research Leader, Zoology and Head of the Oxford Silk
Group) looks at the history of spider silks, Professor Andrew
Wilson (Head of the School of Archaeology and Professor of the
Archaeology of the Roman Empire) considers technology and cultural
change in Roman Britain, and Professor Lionel Tarassenko (Head of
Engineering, University of Oxford) brings us back to the twenty
first century. The discussion is chaired by Professor Gregory
Radick (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University
of Leeds and Director, Leeds Humanities Research Institute).