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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

 

Seminars, supported by Wellcome, are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1 unless otherwise stated. All welcome!

 

Early Science and Medicine

Organised by Dániel Margócsy and Philippa Carter.

30 January

Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

13 February

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu)
Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

12 March

Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria)
Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

 

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Organised by Salim Al-Gailani, Mary Brazelton, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

6 February

Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

20 February

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine
Members of the HPS Department will share their experiences with the opportunities and challenges that fieldwork offers to their research

5 March

Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego)
A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

 

Generation to Reproduction

Organised by Salim Al-Gailani and Dániel Margócsy.

23 January

Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland)
How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

27 February

Catherine Rider (University of Exeter)
Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350