This group addresses issues of pedagogy and curriculum in HPS after the discipline’s global turn. It builds on the work of two earlier reading groups in the department, 'Decolonise HPS' (2019–23) and 'Teaching Global HPSTM' (2023–24). Last year, we organised a series of meetings with similar departments around the world to discuss questions of institutional resources, curricula, grand narratives, and intellectual traditions which underpin the teaching of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (HPSTM) in different contexts. This year, we will continue to organise such hybrid meetings, and will also hold sessions focused on developing courses, writing syllabi, and teaching with material culture.
Meetings will be held on Fridays, 2.00–3.30pm in the HPS Board Room in the academic year 2024–25. All are welcome.
Lent Term 2025
7 February
We will be joined (in person) by Raphael Uchôa (University of Coimbra) to discuss the film Não haverá mais história sem nós (No More History Without Us), which he co-wrote with the director Priscilla Brasil.
21 February
We will be joined (in person) by Dr Elise Burton (University of Toronto) to discuss her work, her role as co-editor of Isis, and her perspectives on teaching global HPS. Suggested readings:
- Burton, Elise. 'Narrating ethnicity and diversity in Middle Eastern national genome projects'. Social Studies of Science 48, no. 5 (2018): 762–786.
- Gannett, Lisa. 'Making populations: bounding genes in space and in time'. Philosophy of Science 70, no. 5 (2003): 989–1001.
14 March
We will be holding a syllabus workshop and hope to gather a small group of students and postdocs who are each willing to share in advance a draft of a course syllabus that they have designed themselves. The workshop session will then provide participants with an opportunity to receive feedback on their draft from teaching faculty in the Department.