Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “The few cubic centimetres inside your skull”: electro-convulsive therapy in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Dr Lisa Mullen (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “Strange things may be accomplished:” Gurus between Science and Miracles
  Professor Ruth Harris
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital
  Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Smallpox eradication in China and emerging narratives of global health, 1949-79
  Dr Mary Brazelton (University of Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Catholicism, reproduction, and eugenics in interwar Hungary
  Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The intemperate brain: debates over habit and heredity in the 19th century
  Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Venereal disease in the British Empire
  Professor Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and mathematical practice in early modern London
  Dr Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Radical artisans, divine design, and evolution in Britain, 1819-36
  Dr Jonathan Topham (University of Leeds)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The history of poisons: toxic matters, scientific actors and socio-political processes, 19th-20th c.
  Professor Judith Rainhorn (Universite Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne/Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Murder in Palestine? Revisiting the causes of the Acre/Akka typhoid outbreak of 1948
  Dr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - “Whipping Boy” to “Envy of the World”: Promoting the NHS at Home and Abroad, 1948-1998
  Professor Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - German science, French translations, and the global market of books (1810-1850)
  Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
  Dr Simon Werrett (UCL)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Transnational History of Clockwork Automata: Karakuri Ningyō and the Art of Artificial Life
  Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Signals from other worlds: the technological imagination in British wireless cultures, circa 1900-1940
  There will be no seminar next week, 6 May (Bank Holiday)
  Dr Richard Noakes (University of Exeter)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815
  Dr Erin Spinney (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - “Dead souls”: mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds from GULAG, 1930-1955
  There will be no seminar next week, 27 May (Bank Holiday)
  Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, Germany c. 1900
  Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies
  Dr John Waller (Michigan State University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the Papal bull Coeli et terrae
  Dr Neil Tarrant (University of York)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - 2019 HSMT Postraduate Conference: Ch-Ch-Changes in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
  Various Speakers

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery
  Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Hands-on Theory in a Sailing School: Dieppe, 1675
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Margaret Schotte (York University, Canada)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 1 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The First Egyptian Society (1741-3): The Royal Society, natural philosophy, and antiquarianism
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - William Playfair's cross-channel transfers in the 1780s (title TBC)
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Jean-François Dunyach (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - History of Chemistry: Who cares?
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 12 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “The Moslems want to see everything from close by”: seeing in pre-modern Eurasia
  Yusen Yu (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 19 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Writing the rules of reason: inscriptive practice and the rise of mathematical logic
  David Dunning (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 26 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The science of money: Isaac Newton’s mastering of the mint
  Alice Marples (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology; case studies on ceramics
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Moujan Matin (Toronto)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Imperial and empirical: crafting medicine in the 19th century
  Martin Robert (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “Never so at Home:” Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham
  Georgina Montgomery (Michigan State University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sonic emblems & magic squares: Atalanta fugiens and Ludic humanism in the 21st century
  Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Scholar Performer)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - “Think of the position I have been put in since first grade, just because I passed a silly test of describing pictures”: gifted children, intellect, and expertise in modern Britain and America
  Dr Jennifer Crane (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Representing current events: reflections from a historian
  Robert Lacey (Historian and author)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Compound words, synthetic world: an information history of modern chemistry
  Dr Evan Hepler-Smith (Duke University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Tracing the future of research: managing a public funding body
  Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - New under the sun: Jews and climate in Palestine 1897-1948
  Dr Netta Cohen (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Public history in China: history, memory, and politics
  Professor Na Li (Zhejiang University)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - How Joseph Banks made climate move
  Harriet Mercer (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Historians and gaming: consulting for video and board games
  Daniel Burt (Oxford), Perrine Poiron (Sorbonne Université and UQAM)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773-1779)
  Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Medical museums: handling specimens from the past
  Professor Richard Fraser (McGill University), Éloïse Quétel (Sorbonne Université), Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology: case studies on ceramics
  Dr Moujan Matin (University of Toronto)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Connected historians: YouTube and new media
  Ugo Bimar (‘Confessions d’histoire’ channel), Matus Lazar (University of Oxford and ‘M. Laser History’ channel)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Hermetic tradition and scientific revolution revisited: the case of Francesco Patrizi
  Dr Vojtěch Hladky (Charles University, Prague)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Appreciating and preserving: archives and special collections
  Dr Mary Hague-Yearl (McGill University), Dr Florent Palluault, (Médiathèque François-Mitterrand, Poitiers)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Astrological forecasting of epidemic disease in early modern England: a forgotten chapter in the history of public health?
  Dr Michelle Pfeffer (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Local historians and the historical profession
  Mark Davies (Oxford local historian, author), Liz Woolley (Oxford local historian, author)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism: historical and historiographical considerations
  Dr Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Viruses in the making: the notion of emergence seen from the history of influenza
  Dr Frédéric Vagneron (University of Strasbourg)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Food, Farming and Trade in Medieval Croatia: an archaeological perspective
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kelly Reed (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Tarzan The Man Ape: chimpanzees, science and colonial memory at the Pasteur Institute in Kindia
  Dr Marion Thomas (University of Strasbourg & Maison Française d’Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Bearing Witness. Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000)
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2021 - Picture This: Charting Themes Across HSMT
  Various Speakers

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Socialist medicine: rethinking the history of global health
  Dr Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Burn: an incendiary history of lockdown Britain
  Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The British Cotton Belt: carrying Mendel to the edge of empire, 1900-1914
  Dr Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Prestige asymmetry in the popular image of physics
  Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A hospital of her own: interwar colonial nurses and the mobility of power
  Dr Hagit Krik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The origins of medicine in the prehistoric and archaic Greece
  Dr Tomáš Alušík (Charles University, Prague)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Manuscript cultures of mathematics: east-west networks of knowledge
  Dr Alessandra Petrocchi (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sacred histories of public health: leper asylums and the medical-evangelical state in twentieth-century British India
  Please note this talk is online, registration for which is required at the link below.
  Dr Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Rodents and the balance of nature: wildlife protection as public health in the interwar Union of South Africa
  Dr Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Isaac Newton as theologian, artisan, and roommate: some new documents
  Dr Dmitri Levitin (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Adaptive environmental design and the landscape architecture of the British agricultural revolution: a case study of Brassica napus in England and Scotland, 1700-1850
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Amy R Coombs (University of Chicago)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 31 January 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Relaying Station for Empires’ Outcasts’: Managing ‘Lunatics’ in Pre-World War II Hong Kong
  Dr Harry Yi-Jui Wu (National Cheng Kung University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Session 1: Jenny Bangham's Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (Chicago, 2020)
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Computerized folk music in 1960s Hungary
  Dr Máté Szabo (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Origins of the “reproducibility crisis”: evidence-based medicine, drug development, and contemporary preclinical reform
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Nicole C Nelson (University of Winsconsin-Madison)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 21 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Prevention and control of the influenza pandemic in imperial Japan: focusing on the colonial Korea’s preventive measures
  This seminar will now be held via Zoom - please register below
  Dr Young-Soo Kim (Yonsei University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Session 2: Jenny Bangham's Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (Chicago, 2020)
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Latin race science in a Mestizo State: racialized biopolitics in post-revolutionary Mexico
  Dr Carlos López Beltrán (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Fragments of Insanity, Shattered Lives after the Armenian Genocide
  Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Session 3: Jenny Bangham's Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (Chicago, 2020)
  Dr Jenny Bangham (Queen Mary University of London)
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Day 1: Medical Identities in Global History Conference
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Day 2: Medical Identities in Global History Conference
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History

Monday 25 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - On reading a book of two halves: a long history of R A Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  Alex Aylward (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Session 1: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:15 - Workshop - From Research to Engagement: Social Sciences and Infectious Disease
  Margaret Pelling (Oxford), Roderick Bailey (Oxford), Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin), Emily Webster (University College Dublin), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Javier Lezaun (Oxford), Jeong-Ran Kim (Oxford), Ethan Friederich (Oxford), Sam Martin (Oxford), Samantha Vanderslott (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The women's plague; or, narratives of survival during New York's yellow fever epidemics in the founding era
  Carolyn Eastman (Virginia Commonwealth University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Session 2: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  Please note new start time of 16:30
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Death Awareness Movement, taboo, and the “right to know” in twentieth-century Britain and the US
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Houses of Nature: cabinets and laboratories in late 16th-century Medici Florence
  Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Session 3: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  Please note new start time of 16:30
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mary Somerville: being and becoming a mathematician in 19th-century Britain
  Brigitte Stenhouse (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The “American model” and the (re)foundation of French military transfusion medicine after the Second World War
  Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Session 4: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  Please note new start time of 16:30
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Sermons in stones: John Muir, American environmentalism, & Swedenborgian ecology
  Devin Zuber (Berkeley, California)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 16 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Day 1: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
  Please note one talk in Act 3 will be online - the link to join will be sent the day before to all that register.
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Day 2: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A risky business: hydroxychloroquine, global health politics, and the bureaucratization of clinical trials
  Janelle Winters (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Correcting readers in seventeenth-century natural philosophy
  Alice Leonard (University of Coventry)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 24 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “We cannot help laughing”: reflex, discomfort, and the comic in late-Victorian mental science
  Cora Salkovskis (Birkbeck University of London)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Images, tags and identities in ‘science’
  Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Quantification, measurement and the rise of physics in Victorian Britain
  This seminar is online via Zoom for which registration is essential at the link below. You can also watch at the MFO.
  Daniel Jon Mitchell (IEEE History Center)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Unveiling the invisible belt: the shareholders of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1897-1901
  Please note this seminar is at the Weston Library
  Anna Guagnini (Independent Scholar)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Medicine in Ancient Assur: outlining the career of a healer from the 7th century BCE
  Please note this seminar is now online, which you can watch at the MFO
  Troels Arboll (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Material culture and mathematical practice in astrology’s long 16th century
  Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The edge of the self and the limits of the world: Nathaniel Fairfax's thought experiments
  Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Will I have to mortgage my house? Reflections on gene therapy, innovation, and inequality in the USA
  Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Absolute beginner? A relativistic take on Halford Mackinder’s geography, education and the popularization of knowledge
  Emily Hayes (Oxford Brookes University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Framing medical knowledge on mineral waters - France, 1770s-1830s
  François Zanetti (Université Paris Cité)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The place of premodern public health
  Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Evaluation in the Age of Production: The Origins of Gemmology in France, c. 1770-1830
  Michael Bycroft (Warwick)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Drawing as a pragmatist visual epistemology
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Visualising Bloodletting Knowledge in Early Modern England
  Elaine Leong (UCL)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Fantasy or experiment? Reading alchemical imagery in early modern England
  Dr Jennifer M Rampling (Princeton/Oxford Universities)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - "We will have this cut out": The Making and Unmaking of Queer Zoology
  This is a joint event with the LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network on Friday 5 May
  Dr Ross Brooks (Oxford Brookes University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Nathan Crowe (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Day 1: 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
  Please note change of venue from Maison Francaise d'Oxford to Ertegun House.
  Various Speakers
  3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
• 16:00 - “Chains of invincible reasoning”? New approaches to the Newton manuscripts at New College
  Dr Jack Avery (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Day 2: 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
  Various Speakers
  3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Day 3: 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
  Various Speakers
  3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Territorial soils: Egyptology, agriculture, and the colonial politics of field sites
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Meira Gold (New York University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:40 - Day 1: HSMT Postgraduate Conference: The Ox-cars
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars

Friday 9 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Day 2: HSMT Postgraduate Conference: The Ox-cars
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The international scientific conference: a social, cultural and political history
  Dr Charlotte Bigg (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Professor Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College, London)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 6 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Day 1 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Benoit Pouget (Sciences Po Aix), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Mark Harrison (Oxford), John DiMoia (Seoul National University), Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 7 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Day 2 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “Deliver us from doctors”: The New Zealand model of midwifery and the politics of maternity from 1970
  Professor Linda Bryder (Auckland)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era
  Dr Thomas Kelsey (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing (Joint with Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Professor John Henderson (Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Framing epidemic geographies and displacement after the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Dr Baihui Duan (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Abraham Bäck and Linnean racial science
  Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How students created their own curriculum: Oxbridge student clubs in the age of the research university
  Professor Arne Schirrmacher (Berlin)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Cave Remedies: Ancient Wisdom in Stalactites
  Dr Jue Jin (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Historical activism, autobiographies and life story work with people with learning disabilities - using history and stories for social change (Joint with Disability History Month Seminar)
  Professor Elizabeth Tilley and Nathaniel Lawford (The Open University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Pure, white, and uncontaminated: infectious diseases and microbiology in Antarctica
  Dr Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Mathematics: Contrasting the Aims and Approaches of Mathematicians, Egyptologists, and Others
  Dr Chris Hollings (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Western Medical Missionaries in China, 1840s-1950s
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University and Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Medical Knowledge and Sanitation Measures in China in the Time of Cholera, 1820-1925
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Xianbing Du (Tianjin Normal University, China)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Bloodletting under the ankle, post-mortem caesarean section, and the role of female expertise in medieval medicine
  Professor Maaike van der Lugt (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin - Paris Saclay)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Gold and Mercury: unearthing a toxic partnership (1847-2023)
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Materiality as Method: In Conversation with Dr Peter Oakley
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art), Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Tracing the Legacies of Empires of Extinction
  Joint event with the Bodleian Library: We Are Our History Conversations, held at the Weston Library. Booking is required for this event.
  Professor Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Ancient Mesopotamian Plant Knowledge
  Dr Barbara Boeck (CSIC, Madrid)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Presentism and the Historian of Science: Reflections from the Coalface
  Professor Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Inaugural Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - “Archives of Loss and Wonder”: Writing a History of Fossil Heritage in South Asia
  Please note change of venue for this seminar - Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History
  Dr Amelia Bonea (Manchester)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday instead of Monday, which is a Bank Holiday, and will be held in the Lecture Theatre at the History Faculty, George Street
  Professor Erika L Milam (Princeton)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

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

• 11:20 - Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
  Various Speakers
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

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

• 16:00 - Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
  Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

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

• 16:00 - The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
  Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

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

• 16:00 - The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
  Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

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

• 16:00 - Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
  Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events