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Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Seminars will be held on Mondays at 16:00, in Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, unless otherwise specified.
All welcome!
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
Erica Charters,
Rob Iliffe,
Catherine Jackson,
Sloan Mahone,
Alex Aylward,
Hohee Cho
Timing: Mondays at 16:00-17:30, unless otherwise specified
Web Address:
http://www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk/
Organising department: Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Talks:
Monday 20 October 2025
The Science of Why Human Excrement Matters. Pierre Leroux and the circulus
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Michael Drolet (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 October 2025
Regulation of Anglo-American medical education and its effects on educational cultures
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Susan Lamb (Ottawa)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 November 2025
From Teatime to TV: 200 Years of Science Communication at the Royal Institution
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Katy Duncan (Royal Institution)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 November 2025
Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 November 2025
Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 November 2025
Marie Curie and public histories of science
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Sarah Dry (Oxford),
Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 December 2025
Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
