Recipes to Improve Your Love Life: Advice from the Eighteenth Century
Lisa Smith (University of Essex), 31 March 2016
After IVF: The Reproductive Turn in Social Thought
Inaugural lecture by Professor Sarah Franklin (Department of Sociology), 30 October 2013
Born to Rule: Royal Births in Tudor and Stuart England
Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge) and Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University), 18 and 25 June 2013
Exhibitions
CASEBOOKS: Six Contemporary Artists and an Extraordinary Medical Archive
Ambika P3, University of Westminster, March to April 2017
Books and Babies: Communicating Reproduction
Cambridge University Library, July to December 2011
Reproduction on Film
Sex, Secrets and Lies
Fifth 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2016
Outlaws
Fourth 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2015
Making Babies
Third 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2013
Monstrosity
Second 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2012
Reproductive Dystopias
First 'Reproduction on Film' series, March 2011
Workshops and conferences
The Contested History of Hormone Pregnancy Tests
27 January 2017
Reproductive Politics in France and Britain
5–7 September 2016
Sex, Disease and Fertility in History
28–30 September 2015
Reproduction on Film
23–25 September 2015
Con/Tested: Sperm Science, Sterility and Masculinity
11–12 September 2014
Cities and Towns as Epidemiological Drivers: Emerging Issues in Urban Historical Demography
17–18 March 2014
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 9
15 November 2013
Making Love, Making Gender, Making Babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
6–7 September 2013
In/Fertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern
15–16 July 2013
Notebooks, Medicine and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe
12–13 July 2013
Generation and Reproduction in Medieval Europe
8 December 2012, preceded by a lecture by Marianne Elsakkers (Utrecht) on 7 December
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 8
23 November 2012
Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond
13–14 July 2012
Making Human Heredity: Populations and Public Health in the Postwar Era
28–30 June 2012
Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900
29–30 March 2012
Communicating Reproduction
5–6 December 2011
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 7
18 November 2011
Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
22–24 September 2011
Leprosy, Language and Identity in the Medieval World
12–13 April 2011
Reproduction and the Sciences in Cambridge
8 April 2011
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 6
12 November 2010
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 5
30 October 2009
Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Age of Capital and Empire, 1848–1919
22–23 April 2009
Ancient Greek and Roman Scientific, Medical and Technical Writing
21 March 2009
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 4
14 November 2008
Seriality and Scientific Objects in an Age of Revolution, 1780–1848
16–17 June 2008
Ancient Greek and Roman Medical and Scientific Writing
15 March 2008
The 'Missing Link': Medicine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
8 March 2008
Secrets and Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Commerce, 1500–1800
15–16 February 2008
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 3
16 November 2007
Cases in Science, Medicine and the Law
20–21 April 2007
PhD Workshop on Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine
23 March 2007
Interdisciplinary Workshops on Reproduction 1 & 2
17 November 2006 and 2 March 2007
Temporalizing the Great Chain of Being: A Reappraisal After 70 Years
16 January 2007
Astrology and the Body, 1100–1800
8–9 September 2006
Science and Medicine in the Multinational Empires of Central and Eastern Europe
23 June 2006
Free School Lane Workshop on Reproduction
17 October 2005
Between the Farm and the Clinic: Agriculture and Reproductive Technology in the Twentieth Century
29 April 2005
Festival of Ideas events
Should We Be Having Babies at 20?
21 October 2015
Is Menstruation Healthy?
22 October 2014
Can Europe Reproduce Itself? Debating Europe's Fertility
28 October 2013
Forging Frontiers in Classical Medicine: Exploring the Body
Lecture by Rebecca Flemming, 26 October 2013
Debating Reproduction: Hospital Birth
1 November 2012
Debating Reproduction: IVF
20 October 2011
Wellcome Lectures
Nineteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison): 'Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic', 8 February 2024
Eighteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
He Bian (Princeton University): 'Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition', 26 January 2023
Seventeenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University): 'Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico', 20 January 2022
Sixteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University): 'Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition', 11 February 2021
Fifteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Sarah Richardson (Harvard University): 'The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body', 13 February 2020
Fourteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University): 'Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine', 17 January 2019
Thirteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Alisha Rankin (Tufts University): 'Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine', 1 March 2018
Twelfth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan): 'Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling', 24 November 2016
Eleventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg): 'Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients', 14 January 2016
Tenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Rebecca Flemming (Classics, Cambridge): 'One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation', 15 January 2015
Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow): 'The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project', 16 January 2014
Eighth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France): 'Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and "bioethics"', 17 January 2013
Seventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter): 'Revisiting the Mendelian revolution', 19 January 2012
Sixth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University): 'Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction', 20 January 2011
Fifth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Angus McLaren (University of Victoria): 'Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948', 3 December 2009
Fourth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Rayna Rapp (New York University): 'Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities', 4 December 2008
Third Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge): 'Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?', 29 November 2007
Second Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Hilary Marland (University of Warwick): 'Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain', 23 November 2006
First Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Helen King (Reading University): 'Women's bodies in sixteenth-century medicine: using the classical tradition', 1 December 2005
