Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine - Oxford Talks

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine part of: Faculty of History

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - 'Decolonising medicine: The Indonesian medical profession, 1900-1950'
Hans Pol (University of Sydney)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - Using modern WHO and FAO health standards to understand the health of women and children from the past: Leipzig, 1917-1921
Mary Cox (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - The place of the imagination in accounts of scientific creativity, 1620-1820
TBA
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

18:00 - The role of emotion in disease: historical perspectives
Professor Mark Jackson (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter)
General Talks

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - Mentality or circumstance? The dilemmas of science-based industry in France, 1870-1920
Robert Fox (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 9 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - Pyrrhic progress: Antibiotics and Western food production, 1949-2015
Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - Healthy, respectable boys: Physical fitness in the Royal Navy, 1850-1905
Elise Smith (Warwick)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - Negotiating expertise at sea: The Board of Longitude in the age of reform
Sophie Waring (Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:15 - Malthus and smallpox
Alison Bashford (Cambridge)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 18 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - ‘Reading the plague in seventeenth-century London’
Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 25 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - ‘Can we do a history of medicine for ancient Mesopotamia? A critical overview of cuneiform sources from the 1st millennium BCE’
Moudhy Al-Rashid (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 1 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - ‘Knowing animal health in the environment: UK government research on bovine TB, 1970-1995’
Angela Cassidy (King’s College London)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - ‘Weights and measures: Some early-modern English tracts on ancient and modern mensuration'
Will Poole (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - ‘Mind, body and soul in medieval discussions of nocturnal emissions’
William MacLehose (University College London)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - 'Old age, sickness and poor relief in 17th century England’
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Jonathan Healey (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 February 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - ‘Lenin's Gulag hospitals: Caring for political prisoners in early Soviet concentration camps, 1921-1929’
Dan Healey (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - ‘Circulating knowledge and colonial modernity: the symbolic function of laboratory research in the British empire after 1945’
Sabine Clarke (University of York)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

14:15 - A pharmacopeia for India: Nationalist narratives in Colonial India?
Nandini Bhattacharya (University of Dundee)
Medicine in the non-European World

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

14:15 - Elephants and anthrax: Burma's forests, imperial networks and the history of a vaccine
Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds)
Medicine in the non-European World

Monday 16 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

14:15 - Anatomy of African pathos: How a cholera outbreak became a national disaster in Zimbabwe
Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
Medicine in the non-European World

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

14:15 - Administering vaccination in interwar Algeria
Hannah-Louise Clark (University of Oxford)
Medicine in the non-European World

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:15 - From lunatic asylums to mental hospitals: Professionalization and medicalization of colonial psychiatry, 1895-1947
Shilpi Rajpal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali)
Medicine in the non-European World

Monday 6 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:15 - Obstetrics as a model for Buddhist meditation in pre-modern Southeast Asia
Kate Crosby (King's College London)
Medicine in the non-European World

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - History of Science, medicine and technology Postgraduate Conference 2016: Modern Bodies/ Modern Minds
TBA

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘Immunocapital: yellow fever, citizenship, and power in New Orleans, 1803 to 1860’
Kathryn Olivarius (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 17 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘Sex, health and state-supported treatment for venereal diseases in England, 1918–39’
Anne Hanley (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 24 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘“Upon my word, I do not see the use of having medical evidence here”: medical expertise, professional authority and homicide in nineteenth-century Edinburgh’
Kelly-Ann Couzens (University of Western Australia)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘The myth of the spotted sun and the blemished moon: a biosocial ethnohistory of syphilis and related diseases’
Cesar Giraldo Herrera (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘Traditional medicine and primary health care in Sri Lanka: policy, perceptions, and practice’ Week 6 14 November Kathleen Vongsathorn, University
Margaret Jones (University of York)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 14 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘“A midwife should be welcoming”: personality, midwives, and shifting perceptions of healthcare in Uganda, 1918-1979’
Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘Antibiotics as infrastructure: rehearsing a counterfactual of convalescence’
Clare Chandler (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 28 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - ‘William James and “the laws of health” in nineteenth-century America’
Emma Sutton (Queen Mary University of London)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘Prophets of progress? Predicting the future of science and technology from H G Wells to Isaac Asimov’
Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘UK premature baby care 1947-1965, the Dr Isaac “Harry” Gosset collection at Northampton General Hospital – a case study’
Andrew Williams/Fred O’Dell (Northampton General Hospital)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘Fears, phobias and obsessions in the late-nineteenth century’
Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘Stuck in the middle with you: scientist, state, and network in Chinese engagement with the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1957-1985’
Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:30 - A Plague of Rats: The Material and Visual Emergence of Interspecies Urban Epidemic Control
Christos Lynteris (Visual Plague project, CRASSH, University of Cambridge).)
Future of Cities Programme

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘Precession or trepidation? The motion of the sphere of fixed stars as a problem in medieval Latin astronomy’
Philipp Nothaft (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media’
James Sumner (University of Manchester)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:30 - The deceit of “flourishing for all”: facing up to the necessity of exclusion in environmental planning
TBA
Future of Cities Programme

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘Biology as technology: an unexpected history of innovation in living things’
Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - ‘Peer support, mental health activism, and changing doctor-patient relationships in Uganda’
Yolana Pringle (University of Cambridge)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:30 - Be-longing. Humanimal crowding in the city
Tora Holmberg (Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Future of Cities Programme

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - ‘Django’s phrenologist: science, slavery and material culture, 1791– 1861’
James Poskett (University of Cambridge)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - ‘A Corner in Wheat: large technological systems and the history of genetics, 1900-1930’
Berris Charnley (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - ‘Health, military service, and economic mobility of US Civil War soldiers’
Chulhee Lee (Seoul National University/University of Oxford )
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - ‘Medical reform in Jamaica, 1826-43: imperial and colonial contexts’
Aaron Graham (University College, London)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - ‘Challenges to teaching the history of global health’
Margaret Humphreys (Duke University, USA )
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - History of Science, Medicine and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2017: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Admission and lunch are free but numbers are restricted so please register.
Various Speakers

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - ‘Leviathan and the air rifle: the sclopetus pneumaticus in early modern
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - The okapi, the wolf, the fellow, and the baboons: thalidomide in South Africa, 1956-1976
Julie Parle (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Sciences and cults of the mind: hypnosis, psychiatry and modernity in Austro-Hungary
Emese Lafferton (Central European University, Budapest)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Alchemy and scribal publication: the legacy of a Leiden Rosicrucian
Mike A Zuber (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Science, reputation and controversy: Joseph Priestley through the crises of the Ancien Regime
John Christie (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - (Re)configuring disease: computer as agent of disease definition
Andrew Lea (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Medicos, bandage wallahs and knights of the Red Cross: masculinity and military medicine in Britain in the era of the First World War
Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - CANCELLED: James Dinwiddie, empire and the transit of science, 1760-1815
Please note that, unfortunately, this lecture has been cancelled.
Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - James Bradley and Oxford science in the 18th century
John Fisher (Independent Scholar)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Typologies of fatness: constitutional medicine in early- to mid-twentieth-century Europe
Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - A research enclave in 1940s Nigeria: the Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943-1949
Megan Vaughan (UCL)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Inventive practices in 18th-century Europe: the public theater of technology and the mastery of the elements of nature
Marie Thebaud-Sorger (CNRS)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Ibn al-Haytham (965-ca.1040; Latin: Alhazen): a Report
Robert Hall (Academic Visitor, Faculty of History, University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - The making of a Pastorian Empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics
Aro Velmet (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Ada Lovelace: an eminent Victorian in her mathematical context
Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - UK premature baby care 1947-1965: the Dr Isaac ‘Harry’ Gosset Collection at Northampton General Hospital - a case study
Andrew Williams & Fred O’Dell (Northampton General Hospital)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - How Darwin learned to theorize
Professor Alistair Sponsel (Vanderbilt University)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

09:45 - History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2018: Sex, drugs and death: new perspectives on science, medicine and technology
Various Speakers

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Charlatan epistemology (provisionally)
Dr Koen Vermeir (CNRS Paris/Maison Française d'Oxford)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

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