Monday 12 October 2015

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

Monday 19 October 2015

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 26 October 2015

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

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 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

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

Monday 9 November 2015

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

Monday 16 November 2015

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

Monday 23 November 2015

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

Monday 30 November 2015

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

Monday 18 January 2016

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

Monday 25 January 2016

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 1 February 2016

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

Monday 8 February 2016

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

Monday 15 February 2016

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

Monday 22 February 2016

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 February 2016

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

Monday 7 March 2016

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

Monday 25 April 2016

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 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

• 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

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

Monday 13 June 2016

• 14:15 - ‘The machine in the garden: The compressed-air bath and therapeutic landscapes in the 19th century’
  Jennifer Wallis (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 14:15 - Policy Innovation and policy pathways; Tuberculosis control in Sri Lanka, 1948-1990
  Margaret Jones (University of York)
  Medicine in the non-European World
• 14:15 - The machine in the garden: the compressed-air batch and therapeutic landscapes in the 19th century
  Jennifer Wallis (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 October 2016

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

Monday 17 October 2016

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

Monday 24 October 2016

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 31 October 2016

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 7 November 2016

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 14 November 2016

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

Monday 21 November 2016

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

Monday 28 November 2016

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

Monday 16 January 2017

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 January 2017

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 January 2017

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

Monday 6 February 2017

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 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

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 February 2017

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

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 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

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

Monday 6 March 2017

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

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 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

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

Monday 8 May 2017

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

Monday 15 May 2017

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

Monday 22 May 2017

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

Monday 5 June 2017

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

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 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

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

Monday 9 October 2017

• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  Amanda Rees (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 October 2017

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

Monday 23 October 2017

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

Monday 30 October 2017

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

Monday 6 November 2017

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

Monday 13 November 2017

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

Monday 20 November 2017

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 27 November 2017

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 January 2018

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

Monday 22 January 2018

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

Monday 29 January 2018

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

Monday 5 February 2018

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 12 February 2018

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

Monday 19 February 2018

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

Monday 26 February 2018

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

Monday 5 March 2018

• 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)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 April 2018

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

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 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

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