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

Monday 20 January 2025

Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
Date: 20 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
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Monday 27 January 2025

Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
Date: 27 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Monday 3 February 2025

Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
Date: 3 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
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Monday 10 February 2025

Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
Date: 10 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Monday 17 February 2025

Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
Date: 17 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Monday 24 February 2025

Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
Date: 24 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Becky Martin (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Monday 3 March 2025

Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
Date: 3 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Monday 10 March 2025

Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
Date: 10 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
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