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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

 

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.

21 October

Martha McGill (English, University of Cambridge)
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern British life writing

4 November

Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610

2 December

Mark Jenner (University of York)
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality

 

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Organised by Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

14 October

Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex)
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction

11 November

Timothy Sim (HPS, University of Cambridge)
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore

25 November

Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh)
Genetics, infrastructure and historicity in the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain

 

Generation to Reproduction

Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

28 October

Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland)
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s

18 November

Róisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland)
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts