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.
18 October, 5pm
Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University)
Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)
1 November, 5.30pm
Surekha Davies (Utrecht University)
Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images
Hybrid – register for Zoom details
15 November, 5.30pm
Sebestian Kroupa (HPS, Cambridge)
From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Salim Al-Gailani and Mary Brazelton.
11 October, 9am
Manabu Akagawa (University of Tokyo)
The Great Kanto Earthquake and the daily records (1923) kept by Professor Siota's surgeons at the Imperial University of Tokyo
Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo)
Doctors, patients and the two languages: case histories in Japanese with German in the earlier half of the 20th century
Please note that this seminar will take place at 9.00–10.30am
Online only – register for Zoom details
8 November, 5.30pm
Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century
Online only – register for Zoom details
22 November, 5pm
Jenny Bangham (QMUL)
Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century
Hybrid – register for Zoom details
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Staffan Müller-Wille and Dániel Margócsy.
25 October, 5pm
Tinne Claes (KU Leuven)
How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s
Hybrid – register for Zoom details
29 November, 5.30pm
Sonia Wigh
Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India