Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1 unless otherwise stated. All welcome!
Early Science and Medicine
Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins.
4 February
Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
'The Earth is a Heaven, and a New Heaven': revisiting early modern science and Catholic theology
4 March
Anuj Misra (Freie Universität Berlin)
Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts
18 March
Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark)
What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Salim Al-Gailani, Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.
11 February
Elisabeth Yang (University of Leeds)
Constructing moral and proto-scientific babies: the medical and scientific enterprise of infancy in 19th-century America
25 February
Ann Kelly (University of Oxford)
Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained
11 March
Miles Kempton (Christ's College, Cambridge)
How TV made The Naked Ape
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Salim Al-Gailani, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.
28 January
Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield)
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history
18 February
Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn)
'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia