Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
  Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 10:45 - Personalised Prevention Research Showcase
  Dr Sarah Briggs (University of Oxford), Dr Louisa Chenciner (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Horton (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Kay (University of Oxford), Sally Sansom (University of Oxford), Dr Susie Weller (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 09:00 - Ethical questions of pregnancy management following a positive NIPT/PND result - Perspectives from England, France, Germany and the Netherlands Type of event: international workshop
  Claudia Wiesemann (University of Göttingen), Christop Rehman-Sutter (University of Lübeck), Valerie Seror, Inserm (University Aix-Marseille), Tamar Nov-Klaiman (University of Augsburg), Adeline Perrot (University of Oxford), Felicity Boardman (University of Warwick), Lidewij Henneman (Amsterdam UMC), Jane Fisher (Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC)), Carine Vassy (University Paris 13), Angus Clarke (University of Cardiff)
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 09:30 - 1-Day Workshop: Disease and International Relations
  This event is in-person only and requires registration
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 14:00 - A cognitive inquiry into blind wine tasting
  Prof Qian Janice Wang (University of Copenhagen)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Monday 10 February 2025

• 16:00 - Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
  Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 09:30 - Towards Unequal Care: Developing Sex Informed Treatments for Psychotic Disorders
  Dr Bodyl Brand (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Why should the global and intergenerational challenges posed by infectious diseases reshape the duties to protect the human right to health?
  Dr Romina Rekers (University of Graz / FLACSO)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:30 - ‘Recent experiences of epidemic and emerging infections in the UK’
  This talk is for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand to let us know (events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk).
  Dr Richard Pebody (Director of Emerging and Emerging Infections at the UK Health Security Agency)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
• 14:00 - What is the critical level of description for consciousness? Implications for the possibility of conscious AI
  Dr Shamil Chandaria (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  Various Speakers

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 17:30 - How life works: Dealing with biology’s changing narrative
  Philip Ball
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

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

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 February 2025

• 16:00 - Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
  Becky Martin (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 09:30 - Population health impact of new medicines recommended by NICE in England, 2000-2020
  Dr Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 13:00 - ‘More Than Meets the Eye: Hidden Epidemics in Africa and the Power of Multi-Pathogen Serosurveillance’
  This talk is for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand to let us know (events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk).
  Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah (Global Health and Infectious Disease Research Group at KCCR in KNUST)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
• 14:00 - Dimensions of interoception for cognition and emotion
  Prof Sarah Garfinkel (UCL)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  Various Speakers

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
  Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 09:30 - The efficacy and safety of pramipexole augmentation in treatment resistant depression: Results of the PAX-D trial.
  Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Entangled life: A conversation
  Dr Merlin Sheldrake
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  Various Speakers

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Sebastian Calonico (Columbia University)
  Health Economics Seminar

Monday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
  Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 09:30 - Understanding and treating social anxiety in youth.
  Eleanor Leigh (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The BLACK-ARTS study: Creative Arts Therapies as a tool for flourishing
  Briana Applewhite (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 13:00 - PSI seminar: Nir Eyal
  This talk is for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand to let us know (events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk).
  Professor Nir Eyal (Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
• 14:00 - Nature-based solutions for systemic change: Transforming climate action through local, ecological and relational knowledge
  Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Monday 24 March 2025

• 09:00 - History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities