Day 2 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Friday 7 June 09:45-13:30

Programme

09:45-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks: Dr Hohee Cho

10:15-11:35 Panel 4: Uncomfortable Collections (Colonialism) Chair: Philippa Monk

Yiming Gao, Epidemics in the international settlement of Shanghai (1900-1945): evaluating the public health intervention of the Shanghai Municipal Council and the factors that shaped their response
Rutuja Rokade, Marginalised bodies, disease outbreaks and colonial intervention in British India during the long nineteenth century
Marielle Masolo, Medicine and miracle: Kimbangu and prophetic healing in the Belgian Congo, 1918-1930


11:35-11:55 Break

11:55-13:15 Panel 5: Cataloguing Office (Definitions) Chair: Joseph Foster

Alexandra Goh McMillen, A (botanic) garden of forking paths: diverging approaches to botany in 17th-century England, with chamomile as a case study
Philippa Monk, Inventing a global disease: finding and treating yaws in Greater India, 1860-1960
Molly Wilson, Reassessing Rosenhan: pseudo-patients and schizophrenia diagnosis


13:15-13:30 Closing Remarks: Dr Sloan Mahone
Date: 7 June 2024, 9:45 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Organiser contact email address: belinda.clark@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark