Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1. All welcome!
Early Science and Medicine
Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins.
27 January
Alexander Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University)
Habit, chronic disease and evolutionary theory, 1750–1830
3 February
Soile Ylivuori (University of Helsinki)
Experimenting on/with eels: colonial space and electric knowledge construction in the 18th century
10 March
Maria Florutau (Uppsala University)
Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770–1800)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.
10 February
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (University of Cambridge)
Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China
17 February
Chidi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria
3 March
Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews)
How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning
17 March
This seminar will exceptionally take place from 3.00 to 4.30pm
Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz)
The birth of scientific anti-racism
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.
24 February
Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford)
Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge