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Public lectures
Exhibitions
Reproduction on Film
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
Wellcome Lectures
- Eighteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
He Bian (Princeton University), 26 January 2023
- Seventeenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University), 20 January 2022
- Sixteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University), 11 February 2021
- Fifteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Sarah Richardson (Harvard University), 13 February 2020
- Fourteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University), 17 January 2019
- Thirteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Alisha Rankin (Tufts University), 1 March 2018
- Twelfth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan), 24 November 2016
- Eleventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg), 14 January 2016
- Tenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Rebecca Flemming (Classics, Cambridge), 15 January 2015
- Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow), 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), 17 January 2013
- Seventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter), 19 January 2012
- Sixth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University), 20 January 2011
- Fifth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Angus McLaren (University of Victoria), 3 December 2009
- Fourth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Rayna Rapp (New York University), 4 December 2008
- Third Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge), 29 November 2007
- Second Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Hilary Marland (University of Warwick), 23 November 2006
- First Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Helen King (Reading University), 1 December 2005