Medical Humanities
Description: Seminars and Events of interest to Medical Humanities Oxford
Talks:

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 10 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford)

Publishing in the History of Science: a Conversation
Date: 10 May 2024, 10:00 - 11:15 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton), Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
Date: 10 May 2024, 11:20 - 18:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organiser: Dr Alex Aylward
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Bacterial infection conditions the lung for innate immune defense against SARS-CoV2
Date: 13 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Alan Sher (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
Date: 13 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

SSRIs: A Pharmacological Cul-de-Sac?
Date: 14 May 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Phil Cowen (Professor of Psychopharmacology, University of Oxford )
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'A year of the Thames Valley LINK Programme. Working with children, young people and professionals in complex situations: strategic and practical considerations'
Date: 14 May 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Nick Hindley (Oxford Health NHS)
Venue Details: Department of Psychiatry Seminar Room or Online (Zoom)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Varieties of Psychedelic Breakthroughs
Date: 14 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Leor Roseman (Exeter University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop
Date: 16 May 2024, 9:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Organiser: Dr Sally Frampton (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 17 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

The impact of host and virus genetic variation on HCV infection outcome.
Date: 20 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Azim Ansari (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
Date: 20 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Brain vulnerability for psychosis: from mechanisms to real-world outcomes
Date: 21 May 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Gemma Modinos (Kings College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Philip McGuire (University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar – The Ethics of Transformative Experience and Psychotherapy (provisional title)
Date: 21 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Farbod Akhlaghi (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room 0 or Zoom
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Genetics and a family-based approach in psychiatry'
Date: 21 May 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Christel Middeldorp (Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland; affiliated with Amsterdam University Medical Center, Arkin and Levvel)
Venue Details: Department of Psychiatry Seminar Room or Online (Zoom)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Computational Neurotherapeutics for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Neurology and Psychiatry
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Giulio Ruffini (Neuroelectrics)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Substance and Identity: Histoires Petites et Grandes
Date: 22 May 2024, 15:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: John R R Christie (Oxford), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trees, Deities and Magic in Bronze Age South Asian Medicine
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Robert Arnott (Green Templeton College)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Emmanouil Mentzakis, (City of London University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdeiurjspG9JjEkdCZnET3YPW_7zrVALw
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 24 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 24 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Meissen Coloration and Pacific Chemical Medicine
Date: 29 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Nicholas Zumbulyadis (Delaware), Mariana Sanchez (Paris)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 31 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Meeting Room 4
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Exploiting electronic health records to improve infection management
Date: 3 June 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Sarah Walker (Experimental Medicine Division, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
Date: 3 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Placebo Studies & the Replication Crisis
Date: 4 June 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Edward Harcourt (Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford)

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Findings & Learning from the national STADIA (Standardised Diagnostic Assessments in CAMHS) study – a multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial'
Date: 4 June 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kapil Sayal (University of Nottingham)
Venue Details: Department of Psychiatry Seminar Room or Online (Zoom)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Ethics, Law, and Humanities
Date: 4 June 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On the perception of ‘now’: intriguing evidence from confabulating patients
Date: 4 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Armin Schnider (University Hospital Geneve)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar - Neuroethics of lumbar punctures (aka ‘spinal taps’) for psychiatric indications (provisional title)
Date: 4 June 2024, 14:30 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Matthew Baum (Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre and on Zoom
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Acquiring science in early 19th century York: the diary of Jane Ewbank
Date: 5 June 2024, 15:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Rachel Feldberg (York), Matthew Eddy (Durham)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 June 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 7 June 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Meeting Room 4
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Tools for early, rapid and accurate diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis that could improve case ascertainment in resource limited settings
Date: 10 June 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Brenda Kwambana-Adams (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
Date: 10 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 June 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Nancy Zucker (Duke University, Durham, USA)
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Kate Stein (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Professor Alan Stein, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Case Presentation: Treating ARFID isn’t scary. We can all do it!
Date: 11 June 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Kate Stein (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Sally Burne (CAMHS Eating Disorders), Sarah Wilcock (Clinical Lead & Specialist Occupational Therapist PEACE Pathway)
Venue Details: Department of Psychiatry Seminar Room or Online (Zoom)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 14 June 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

The physiology and pathophysiology of respiratory infections and inflammation from an ecological perspective
Date: 17 June 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Debby Bogaert (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Title TBC
Date: 18 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Eus van Someren (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Cosmogony and Medicine in Ancient China
Date: 19 June 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Genevieve Le Goff (Five Bridges University and Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, California, USA)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Ethox Seminar - Lottery or Triage? Controlled experimental evidence from A controlled experiment the COVID-19 pandemic on public preferences for allocation of scarce medical resources
Date: 20 June 2024, 10:30 - 12:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Philip Clarke (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: This will be a hybrid seminar in the Big Data Institute, Lower Ground Seminar Room 0, and on Zoom (Registration is required)
Organiser: The Ethox Centre
Host: The Ethox Centre

Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

The musicality of mental time travel
Date: 21 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Prof Nicola Clayton (University of Cambridge), Mark Baldwin (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Ethox Seminar - The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India
Date: 25 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Eva Fiks (Keele University)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 and on Zoom
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2024 - Collaboration Beyond Boundaries
Date: 1 July 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Monday, 11th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organiser: Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Tuesday 2 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

Ethox Seminar – The place of health in the justification of protest
Date: 2 July 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 11th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ryan Essex (University of Greenwich)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre and on Zoom
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Biotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Identity
Date: 17 October 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Ancient Medicine Seminar
BDI seminars
Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023
Ethox Centre Seminars
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
GCHU Public Seminar series
Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation
Global Health DPhil Discourse
Health Economics Seminar
Hilary 2023 Seminar Series: Methodological Advances in Social and Health Care Research
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
Management in Medicine Programme
Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
Michaelmas 2023 Seminar Series | Ageing with a Disability
Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23
New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
Psychiatry Seminar Series
Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim Societies
Richard Doll Seminars
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
TORCH network "Sleep and the Rhythms of Life"
Translational Health Sciences
Trinity 2023 Seminar Series | Caring communities: configuring local support for healthy ageing in place
Tropical Medicine Seminars
Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre