Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology - Oxford Talks

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Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology part of: Faculty of History

Monday 13 October 2025

16:00 - “I call them all by the Malabar name”: communicating colonial flora before universal nomenclature
Madeline White (Oxford)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 October 2025

16:00 - The Science of Why Human Excrement Matters. Pierre Leroux and the circulus
Michael Drolet (Oxford)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 27 October 2025

16:00 - Regulation of Anglo-American medical education and its effects on educational cultures
Susan Lamb (Ottawa)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 3 November 2025

16:00 - From Teatime to TV: 200 Years of Science Communication at the Royal Institution
Katy Duncan (Royal Institution)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 10 November 2025

16:00 - Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 17 November 2025

16:00 - Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 24 November 2025

16:00 - Marie Curie and public histories of science
Please note this seminar will be held at the Maison Française d'Oxford, and will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by the MFO
Sarah Dry (Oxford), Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 1 December 2025

16:00 - Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

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