• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Erica Charters , Mark Harrison , Rob Iliffe , Catherine Jackson , Sloan Mahone , Alex Aylward , Hohee Cho
• Timing: Mondays at 16:00, unless otherwise specified
• Web Address: http://www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Monday 12 October 2015

• 14:15 - 'Decolonising medicine: The Indonesian medical profession, 1900-1950'
  Hans Pol (University of Sydney)

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)

Monday 26 October 2015

• 14:15 - The place of the imagination in accounts of scientific creativity, 1620-1820
  TBA

Monday 2 November 2015

• 14:15 - Mentality or circumstance? The dilemmas of science-based industry in France, 1870-1920
  Robert Fox (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 November 2015

• 14:15 - Pyrrhic progress: Antibiotics and Western food production, 1949-2015
  Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford)

Monday 16 November 2015

• 14:15 - Healthy, respectable boys: Physical fitness in the Royal Navy, 1850-1905
  Elise Smith (Warwick)

Monday 23 November 2015

• 14:15 - Negotiating expertise at sea: The Board of Longitude in the age of reform
  Sophie Waring (Oxford)

Monday 30 November 2015

• 14:15 - Malthus and smallpox
  Alison Bashford (Cambridge)

Monday 18 January 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Reading the plague in seventeenth-century London’
  Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London)

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)

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)

Monday 8 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Weights and measures: Some early-modern English tracts on ancient and modern mensuration'
  Will Poole (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Mind, body and soul in medieval discussions of nocturnal emissions’
  William MacLehose (University College London)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Monday 10 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Immunocapital: yellow fever, citizenship, and power in New Orleans, 1803 to 1860’
  Kathryn Olivarius (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Sex, health and state-supported treatment for venereal diseases in England, 1918–39’
  Anne Hanley (University of Oxford)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Monday 21 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Antibiotics as infrastructure: rehearsing a counterfactual of convalescence’
  Clare Chandler (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Monday 28 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘William James and “the laws of health” in nineteenth-century America’
  Emma Sutton (Queen Mary University of London)

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)

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)

Monday 30 January 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Fears, phobias and obsessions in the late-nineteenth century’
  Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)

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)

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)

Monday 20 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media’
  James Sumner (University of Manchester)

Monday 27 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Biology as technology: an unexpected history of innovation in living things’
  Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge)

Monday 6 March 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Peer support, mental health activism, and changing doctor-patient relationships in Uganda’
  Yolana Pringle (University of Cambridge)

Monday 24 April 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Django’s phrenologist: science, slavery and material culture, 1791– 1861’
  James Poskett (University of Cambridge)

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)

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 )

Monday 22 May 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Medical reform in Jamaica, 1826-43: imperial and colonial contexts’
  Aaron Graham (University College, London)

Monday 5 June 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Challenges to teaching the history of global health’
  Margaret Humphreys (Duke University, USA )

Monday 12 June 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Leviathan and the air rifle: the sclopetus pneumaticus in early modern
  Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

Monday 9 October 2017

• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  Amanda Rees (University of York)
• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  TBA

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)

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)

Monday 30 October 2017

• 16:00 - Alchemy and scribal publication: the legacy of a Leiden Rosicrucian
  Mike A Zuber (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 November 2017

• 16:00 - Science, reputation and controversy: Joseph Priestley through the crises of the Ancien Regime
  John Christie (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 November 2017

• 16:00 - (Re)configuring disease: computer as agent of disease definition
  Andrew Lea (University of Oxford)

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)

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)

Monday 15 January 2018

• 16:00 - James Bradley and Oxford science in the 18th century
  John Fisher (Independent Scholar)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 16:00 - The making of a Pastorian Empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics
  Aro Velmet (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 16:00 - Ada Lovelace: an eminent Victorian in her mathematical context
  Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)

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)

Monday 23 April 2018

• 16:00 - How Darwin learned to theorize
  Professor Alistair Sponsel (Vanderbilt University)

Monday 30 April 2018

• 16:00 - The Casebooks Project: http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/
  Dr Lauren Kassell (University of Cambridge)

Monday 14 May 2018

• 16:00 - Looking through the Telectroscope: the material culture of the Victorian future
  Professor Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth University)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 16:00 - Things come together: science in the American West
  Elliott West (University of Arkansas, and The Queen’s College)

Monday 4 June 2018

• 16:00 - Scientific networks and humanitarian ends: Dr Thomas Hodgkin and the protection of aborigines in mid-nineteenth century London
  Dr Zoe Laidlaw (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Monday 11 June 2018

• 16:00 - Euclid in the world of early modern London's practical mathematicians
  Dr Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 October 2018

• 16:00 - “The few cubic centimetres inside your skull”: electro-convulsive therapy in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Dr Lisa Mullen (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 October 2018

• 16:00 - “Strange things may be accomplished:” Gurus between Science and Miracles
  Professor Ruth Harris

Monday 22 October 2018

• 16:00 - Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital
  Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)

Monday 29 October 2018

• 16:00 - Smallpox eradication in China and emerging narratives of global health, 1949-79
  Dr Mary Brazelton (University of Cambridge)

Monday 5 November 2018

• 16:00 - Catholicism, reproduction, and eugenics in interwar Hungary
  Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)

Monday 12 November 2018

• 16:00 - The intemperate brain: debates over habit and heredity in the 19th century
  Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 November 2018

• 16:00 - Venereal disease in the British Empire
  Professor Katherine Paugh (Oxford)

Monday 26 November 2018

• 16:00 - The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and mathematical practice in early modern London
  Dr Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)

Monday 14 January 2019

• 16:00 - Radical artisans, divine design, and evolution in Britain, 1819-36
  Dr Jonathan Topham (University of Leeds)

Monday 21 January 2019

• 16:00 - The history of poisons: toxic matters, scientific actors and socio-political processes, 19th-20th c.
  Professor Judith Rainhorn (Universite Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne/Maison Française d'Oxford)

Monday 28 January 2019

• 16:00 - Murder in Palestine? Revisiting the causes of the Acre/Akka typhoid outbreak of 1948
  Dr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 February 2019

• 16:00 - “Whipping Boy” to “Envy of the World”: Promoting the NHS at Home and Abroad, 1948-1998
  Professor Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)

Monday 11 February 2019

• 16:00 - German science, French translations, and the global market of books (1810-1850)
  Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 February 2019

• 16:00 - Charlatan epistemology (provisionally)
  Dr Koen Vermeir (CNRS Paris/Maison Française d'Oxford)

Monday 25 February 2019

• 16:00 - Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
  Dr Simon Werrett (UCL)

Monday 4 March 2019

• 16:00 - Transnational History of Clockwork Automata: Karakuri Ningyō and the Art of Artificial Life
  Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 April 2019

• 16:00 - Signals from other worlds: the technological imagination in British wireless cultures, circa 1900-1940
  There will be no seminar next week, 6 May (Bank Holiday)
  Dr Richard Noakes (University of Exeter)

Monday 13 May 2019

• 16:00 - Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815
  Dr Erin Spinney (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 May 2019

• 16:00 - “Dead souls”: mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds from GULAG, 1930-1955
  There will be no seminar next week, 27 May (Bank Holiday)
  Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 June 2019

• 16:00 - Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, Germany c. 1900
  Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)

Monday 10 June 2019

• 16:00 - How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies
  Dr John Waller (Michigan State University)

Monday 17 June 2019

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the Papal bull Coeli et terrae
  Dr Neil Tarrant (University of York)

Monday 14 October 2019

• 16:00 - Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery
  Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong)

Monday 21 October 2019

• 16:00 - Normality: measuring practices and devices
  Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle & Dr Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland)

Monday 28 October 2019

• 16:00 - Instruments of early modern Iberian empires: towards a critical history of globalisation
  Dr Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (British Academy/University College London)

Monday 4 November 2019

• 16:00 - Dissecting "Diegelman" (1945): Film, Medicine and the Cinematic Oeuvre of Kurt Goldstein
  With regret this talk has been cancelled.
  Dr Caitjan Gainty (King's College London)

Monday 11 November 2019

• 16:00 - What was Einstein’s real achievement in his 1905 theory of special relativity?
  Professor Harvey Brown (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2019

• 16:00 - Humanising the past: the case of the skeletons from Stonehenge
  Dr Simon Mays (Historic England)

Monday 25 November 2019

• 16:00 - Thatcherism and the Information Age: How the British Telecom Infrastructure Changed Politics
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)

Monday 2 December 2019

• 16:00 - Putting medicine and literature in dialogue: the case of the French doctor Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837)
  Dr Bénédicte Prot (Oxford and Swiss National Science Foundation)

Monday 20 January 2020

• 16:00 - Self-help and psychology
  Dr Michael Finn (Leeds)

Monday 27 January 2020

• 16:00 - Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War
  Dr Taline Garibian (Oxford)

Monday 3 February 2020

• 16:00 - Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine
  Professor Marilyn Nicoud (Avignon)

Monday 10 February 2020

• 16:00 - Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850
  Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)

Monday 17 February 2020

• 16:00 - Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul)

Monday 24 February 2020

• 16:00 - No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?
  Georgina Ferry (Author)

Monday 2 March 2020

• 16:00 - Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa
  Please note this seminar is in the Colin Matthew Room and NOT the Lecture Theatre
  Dr Chris Low (Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2020

• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)

Monday 18 May 2020

• 16:00 - Hands-on Theory in a Sailing School: Dieppe, 1675
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Margaret Schotte (York University, Canada)

Monday 1 June 2020

• 16:00 - The First Egyptian Society (1741-3): The Royal Society, natural philosophy, and antiquarianism
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)

Monday 8 June 2020

• 16:00 - William Playfair's cross-channel transfers in the 1780s (title TBC)
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Jean-François Dunyach (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Monday 15 June 2020

• 16:00 - History of Chemistry: Who cares?
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)

Monday 12 October 2020

• 16:00 - “The Moslems want to see everything from close by”: seeing in pre-modern Eurasia
  Yusen Yu (Oxford)

Monday 19 October 2020

• 16:00 - Writing the rules of reason: inscriptive practice and the rise of mathematical logic
  David Dunning (Oxford)

Monday 26 October 2020

• 16:00 - The science of money: Isaac Newton’s mastering of the mint
  Alice Marples (Oxford)

Monday 2 November 2020

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology; case studies on ceramics
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Moujan Matin (Toronto)

Monday 9 November 2020

• 16:00 - Milan Hašek and the discovery of immunological tolerance: an exclusive case of ideologisation in biology behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s
  Tomas Hermann (Charles University, Prague)

Monday 16 November 2020

• 16:00 - Imperial and empirical: crafting medicine in the 19th century
  Martin Robert (Oxford)

Monday 23 November 2020

• 16:00 - “Never so at Home:” Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham
  Georgina Montgomery (Michigan State University)

Monday 30 November 2020

• 16:00 - Sonic emblems & magic squares: Atalanta fugiens and Ludic humanism in the 21st century
  Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Scholar Performer)

Monday 18 January 2021

• 16:00 - “Think of the position I have been put in since first grade, just because I passed a silly test of describing pictures”: gifted children, intellect, and expertise in modern Britain and America
  Dr Jennifer Crane (University of Oxford)

Monday 25 January 2021

• 16:00 - Compound words, synthetic world: an information history of modern chemistry
  Dr Evan Hepler-Smith (Duke University)

Monday 1 February 2021

• 16:00 - New under the sun: Jews and climate in Palestine 1897-1948
  Dr Netta Cohen (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 February 2021

• 16:00 - How Joseph Banks made climate move
  Harriet Mercer (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 February 2021

• 16:00 - Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773-1779)
  Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews)

Monday 22 February 2021

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology: case studies on ceramics
  Dr Moujan Matin (University of Toronto)

Monday 1 March 2021

• 16:00 - Hermetic tradition and scientific revolution revisited: the case of Francesco Patrizi
  Dr Vojtěch Hladky (Charles University, Prague)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 16:00 - Astrological forecasting of epidemic disease in early modern England: a forgotten chapter in the history of public health?
  Dr Michelle Pfeffer (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 April 2021

• 16:00 - Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism: historical and historiographical considerations
  Dr Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)

Monday 10 May 2021

• 16:00 - Viruses in the making: the notion of emergence seen from the history of influenza
  Dr Frédéric Vagneron (University of Strasbourg)

Monday 17 May 2021

• 16:00 - Food, Farming and Trade in Medieval Croatia: an archaeological perspective
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kelly Reed (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 May 2021

• 16:00 - Tarzan The Man Ape: chimpanzees, science and colonial memory at the Pasteur Institute in Kindia
  Dr Marion Thomas (University of Strasbourg & Maison Française d’Oxford)

Monday 7 June 2021

• 16:00 - Bearing Witness. Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000)
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin)

Monday 14 June 2021

• 16:00 - Socialist medicine: rethinking the history of global health
  Dr Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)

Monday 11 October 2021

• 16:00 - Burn: an incendiary history of lockdown Britain
  Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 October 2021

• 16:00 - The British Cotton Belt: carrying Mendel to the edge of empire, 1900-1914
  Dr Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge)

Monday 25 October 2021

• 16:00 - Prestige asymmetry in the popular image of physics
  Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham University)

Monday 1 November 2021

• 16:00 - A hospital of her own: interwar colonial nurses and the mobility of power
  Dr Hagit Krik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Monday 8 November 2021

• 16:00 - The origins of medicine in the prehistoric and archaic Greece
  Dr Tomáš Alušík (Charles University, Prague)

Monday 15 November 2021

• 16:00 - Manuscript cultures of mathematics: east-west networks of knowledge
  Dr Alessandra Petrocchi (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 November 2021

• 16:00 - Sacred histories of public health: leper asylums and the medical-evangelical state in twentieth-century British India
  Please note this talk is online, registration for which is required at the link below.
  Dr Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia)

Monday 29 November 2021

• 16:00 - Rodents and the balance of nature: wildlife protection as public health in the interwar Union of South Africa
  Dr Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews)

Monday 17 January 2022

• 16:00 - Isaac Newton as theologian, artisan, and roommate: some new documents
  Dr Dmitri Levitin (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 January 2022

• 16:00 - Adaptive environmental design and the landscape architecture of the British agricultural revolution: a case study of Brassica napus in England and Scotland, 1700-1850
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Amy R Coombs (University of Chicago)

Monday 31 January 2022

• 16:00 - Relaying Station for Empires’ Outcasts’: Managing ‘Lunatics’ in Pre-World War II Hong Kong
  Dr Harry Yi-Jui Wu (National Cheng Kung University)

Monday 7 February 2022

• 16:00 - Computerized folk music in 1960s Hungary
  Dr Máté Szabo (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 February 2022

• 16:00 - Origins of the “reproducibility crisis”: evidence-based medicine, drug development, and contemporary preclinical reform
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Nicole C Nelson (University of Winsconsin-Madison)

Monday 21 February 2022

• 16:00 - Prevention and control of the influenza pandemic in imperial Japan: focusing on the colonial Korea’s preventive measures
  This seminar will now be held via Zoom - please register below
  Dr Young-Soo Kim (Yonsei University)

Monday 28 February 2022

• 16:00 - Latin race science in a Mestizo State: racialized biopolitics in post-revolutionary Mexico
  Dr Carlos López Beltrán (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM)

Monday 7 March 2022

• 16:00 - Fragments of Insanity, Shattered Lives after the Armenian Genocide
  Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (University of Oxford)

Monday 25 April 2022

• 16:00 - On reading a book of two halves: a long history of R A Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  Alex Aylward (Oxford)

Monday 9 May 2022

• 09:15 - Workshop - From Research to Engagement: Social Sciences and Infectious Disease
  Margaret Pelling (Oxford), Roderick Bailey (Oxford), Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin), Emily Webster (University College Dublin), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Javier Lezaun (Oxford), Jeong-Ran Kim (Oxford), Ethan Friederich (Oxford), Sam Martin (Oxford), Samantha Vanderslott (Oxford)
• 16:00 - The women's plague; or, narratives of survival during New York's yellow fever epidemics in the founding era
  Carolyn Eastman (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Monday 16 May 2022

• 16:00 - The Death Awareness Movement, taboo, and the “right to know” in twentieth-century Britain and the US
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)

Monday 23 May 2022

• 16:00 - Houses of Nature: cabinets and laboratories in late 16th-century Medici Florence
  Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)

Monday 30 May 2022

• 16:00 - Mary Somerville: being and becoming a mathematician in 19th-century Britain
  Brigitte Stenhouse (Oxford)

Monday 6 June 2022

• 16:00 - The “American model” and the (re)foundation of French military transfusion medicine after the Second World War
  Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix)

Monday 13 June 2022

• 16:00 - Sermons in stones: John Muir, American environmentalism, & Swedenborgian ecology
  Devin Zuber (Berkeley, California)

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - A risky business: hydroxychloroquine, global health politics, and the bureaucratization of clinical trials
  Janelle Winters (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 October 2022

• 16:00 - Correcting readers in seventeenth-century natural philosophy
  Alice Leonard (University of Coventry)

Monday 24 October 2022

• 16:00 - “We cannot help laughing”: reflex, discomfort, and the comic in late-Victorian mental science
  Cora Salkovskis (Birkbeck University of London)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - Images, tags and identities in ‘science’
  Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University)

Monday 7 November 2022

• 16:00 - Quantification, measurement and the rise of physics in Victorian Britain
  This seminar is online via Zoom for which registration is essential at the link below. You can also watch at the MFO.
  Daniel Jon Mitchell (IEEE History Center)

Monday 14 November 2022

• 16:00 - Unveiling the invisible belt: the shareholders of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1897-1901
  Please note this seminar is at the Weston Library
  Anna Guagnini (Independent Scholar)

Monday 21 November 2022

• 16:00 - Medicine in Ancient Assur: outlining the career of a healer from the 7th century BCE
  Please note this seminar is now online, which you can watch at the MFO
  Troels Arboll (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 November 2022

• 16:00 - Material culture and mathematical practice in astrology’s long 16th century
  Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - The edge of the self and the limits of the world: Nathaniel Fairfax's thought experiments
  Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 January 2023

• 16:00 - Will I have to mortgage my house? Reflections on gene therapy, innovation, and inequality in the USA
  Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)

Monday 30 January 2023

• 16:00 - Absolute beginner? A relativistic take on Halford Mackinder’s geography, education and the popularization of knowledge
  Emily Hayes (Oxford Brookes University)

Monday 6 February 2023

• 16:00 - Framing medical knowledge on mineral waters - France, 1770s-1830s
  François Zanetti (Université Paris Cité)

Monday 13 February 2023

• 16:00 - The place of premodern public health
  Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)

Monday 20 February 2023

• 16:00 - Evaluation in the Age of Production: The Origins of Gemmology in France, c. 1770-1830
  Michael Bycroft (Warwick)

Monday 27 February 2023

• 16:00 - Drawing as a pragmatist visual epistemology
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)

Monday 6 March 2023

• 16:00 - Visualising Bloodletting Knowledge in Early Modern England
  Elaine Leong (UCL)

Monday 24 April 2023

• 16:00 - Fantasy or experiment? Reading alchemical imagery in early modern England
  Dr Jennifer M Rampling (Princeton/Oxford Universities)

Friday 5 May 2023

• 16:00 - "We will have this cut out": The Making and Unmaking of Queer Zoology
  This is a joint event with the LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network on Friday 5 May
  Dr Ross Brooks (Oxford Brookes University)

Monday 15 May 2023

• 16:00 - Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Nathan Crowe (University of North Carolina Wilmington)

Monday 22 May 2023

• 16:00 - “Chains of invincible reasoning”? New approaches to the Newton manuscripts at New College
  Dr Jack Avery (Oxford)

Monday 5 June 2023

• 16:00 - Territorial soils: Egyptology, agriculture, and the colonial politics of field sites
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Meira Gold (New York University)

Monday 12 June 2023

• 16:00 - The international scientific conference: a social, cultural and political history
  Dr Charlotte Bigg (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Professor Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College, London)

Thursday 6 July 2023

• 13:30 - Day 1 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Benoit Pouget (Sciences Po Aix), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Mark Harrison (Oxford), John DiMoia (Seoul National University), Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)

Friday 7 July 2023

• 09:30 - Day 2 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)

Monday 9 October 2023

• 16:00 - “Deliver us from doctors”: The New Zealand model of midwifery and the politics of maternity from 1970
  Professor Linda Bryder (Auckland)

Monday 16 October 2023

• 16:00 - How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era
  Dr Thomas Kelsey (Oxford)

Monday 23 October 2023

• 16:00 - The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing (Joint with Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Professor John Henderson (Cambridge)

Monday 30 October 2023

• 16:00 - Framing epidemic geographies and displacement after the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Dr Baihui Duan (Oxford)

Monday 6 November 2023

• 16:00 - Abraham Bäck and Linnean racial science
  Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)

Monday 13 November 2023

• 16:00 - How students created their own curriculum: Oxbridge student clubs in the age of the research university
  Professor Arne Schirrmacher (Berlin)

Monday 20 November 2023

• 16:00 - Cave Remedies: Ancient Wisdom in Stalactites
  Dr Jue Jin (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oxford)

Monday 27 November 2023

• 16:00 - Historical activism, autobiographies and life story work with people with learning disabilities - using history and stories for social change (Joint with Disability History Month Seminar)
  Professor Elizabeth Tilley and Nathaniel Lawford (The Open University)

Monday 15 January 2024

• 16:00 - Pure, white, and uncontaminated: infectious diseases and microbiology in Antarctica
  Dr Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham)

Monday 22 January 2024

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Mathematics: Contrasting the Aims and Approaches of Mathematicians, Egyptologists, and Others
  Dr Chris Hollings (Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2024

• 16:00 - Medical Knowledge and Sanitation Measures in China in the Time of Cholera, 1820-1925
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Xianbing Du (Tianjin Normal University, China)
• 16:00 - The Western Medical Missionaries in China, 1840s-1950s
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University and Oxford)

Monday 5 February 2024

• 16:00 - Bloodletting under the ankle, post-mortem caesarean section, and the role of female expertise in medieval medicine
  Professor Maaike van der Lugt (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin - Paris Saclay)

Monday 12 February 2024

• 16:00 - Gold and Mercury: unearthing a toxic partnership (1847-2023)
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art)

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 11:30 - Materiality as Method: In Conversation with Dr Peter Oakley
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art), Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)

Monday 19 February 2024

• 16:00 - Tracing the Legacies of Empires of Extinction
  Joint event with the Bodleian Library: We Are Our History Conversations, held at the Weston Library. Booking is required for this event.
  Professor Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester)

Monday 26 February 2024

• 16:00 - Ancient Mesopotamian Plant Knowledge
  Dr Barbara Boeck (CSIC, Madrid)

Monday 4 March 2024

• 16:00 - Presentism and the Historian of Science: Reflections from the Coalface
  Professor Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)

Monday 22 April 2024

• 16:00 - Inaugural Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - “Archives of Loss and Wonder”: Writing a History of Fossil Heritage in South Asia
  Please note change of venue for this seminar - Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History
  Dr Amelia Bonea (Manchester)

Monday 29 April 2024

• 16:00 - Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 16:00 - Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday instead of Monday, which is a Bank Holiday, and will be held in the Lecture Theatre at the History Faculty, George Street
  Professor Erika L Milam (Princeton)

Friday 10 May 2024

• 10:00 - Publishing in the History of Science: a Conversation
  Limited places so register soon.
  Professor Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton), Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham)
• 11:20 - Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
  Various Speakers

Monday 13 May 2024

• 16:00 - Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
  Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick)

Monday 20 May 2024

• 16:00 - The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
  Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)

Monday 3 June 2024

• 16:00 - The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
  Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)

Monday 10 June 2024

• 16:00 - Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
  Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)

Monday 14 October 2024

• 16:00 - Book Launch: New Under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine by Netta Cohen
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Dr Netta Cohen (Oxford)

Monday 21 October 2024

• 16:00 - “There is a Fatal Facility in the Use of Technical Terms”: a Media History Perspective on First Aid in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  Dr Sally Frampton (Oxford)

Monday 28 October 2024

• 16:00 - Can opium addiction be cured? Early cellular-level research in 1930s-China and its international impact
  Dr Meng Zhang (CHSTM, Manchester)

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 16:30 - Infectious Ecologies: Exploring Biological Histories of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces
  Please note this seminar will be at 16:30 on THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER, in the Lecture Theatre, Weston Library
  Dr Emily Webster (Durham University)

Monday 11 November 2024

• 16:00 - The Prediction Machine: science, technology, and futurology in British Government, c. 1970-2010
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)

Monday 18 November 2024

• 16:00 - Physical Pain in Early Modern Europe: Texts, Signs, and Emotions (Joint session with HSMT/NOTCOM ERC Project based at the Maison Francaise)
  Dr Raphaële Andrault (IHRIM-ENS de Lyon), Professor Ariane Bayle (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3; IHRIM)

Monday 25 November 2024

• 16:00 - What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
  Professor Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday 2 December 2024

• 16:00 - Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s-1930s
  Dr Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 16:30 - From SARS to COVID: What has changed in the Chinese healthcare system?
  Wenmin Li (Hubei University/Oxford)

Monday 20 January 2025

• 16:00 - Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
  Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)

Monday 27 January 2025

• 16:00 - Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
  Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)

Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
  Emily Merchant (UC Davis)

Monday 10 February 2025

• 16:00 - Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
  Peregrine Horden (Oxford)

Monday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
  Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Monday 24 February 2025

• 16:00 - Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
  Becky Martin (Oxford)

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
  Andrew Moeller (Oxford)

Monday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
  Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)