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