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Spring Programme 2006 - Seminars & Workshops
Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine
University of Manchester
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/
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21st February
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Katrina Dean (Curator for the History of Science, British Library)
Theatres of Australian science and national development in World War One
and after
28th February
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
James Sumner (CHSTM, University of Manchester)
The Mighty Microcosm: Home Computers, Standardisation and User
Subcultures in Britain, 1980-90
7th March
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Ulrike Lindner (University of Cambridge)
How to deal with a "diminishing threat"? Health policy, VD and morals
after 1945 in the UK and West Germany
11th March
ONE DAY CONFERENCE:
‘Centre and Periphery in the history of science, technology and medicine’
CHSTM, Simon Building, University of Manchester
Organiser: Gael Lancelot - [log in to unmask]
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/events/conferences/centre/
14th March
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Matthew Cobb (Zoology Department, University of Manchester)
From generation to genetics
16th March
ONE DAY WORKSHOP
‘Innovation and the NHS’
Co-hosted with CRIC, Harold Hawkins Building, University of Manchester
Organiser: Siobhan Drugan, [log in to unmask]
21st March
AFTERNOON SEMINAR:
Richard Powell (Simon Fellow)
Observing field practices: documenting the contested spaces of High
Arctic environmental science
28th March
AFTERNOON SEMINAR:
Christine Garwood
Myths, Meanings and Metaphors: The Revival of the Flat- Earth Idea in
Victorian Britain
25th April
AFTERNOON SEMINAR:
Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester)
Victorian Scientific Publishing and the 1857 Obscene Publications Act.
2nd May
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (CHSTM)
Mad Dogs, Bradfordians and Russian Peasants: The Reception of Pasteur’s
Rabies Treatment in England
9th May
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
George Weisz (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
The Biomedical Construction of Premenstrual Syndrome in France, the UK
and USA
16th May
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Lutz Saurteig (Durham University)
Representations of Pregnancy and Birth in German Sex Education Books
1900s-1970s
19th May
ONE DAY CONFERENCE
Iatrogenic Diseases: Before and After Ivan Illich
CHSTM, Simon Building, University of Manchester
Organiser: Aya Homei - [log in to unmask]
5th June
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna)
Scientific and political changes in Germany and Austria 1919, 1933/38,
1945, 1989
13th June
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Linda Bryder (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
TITLE: TBA
27th June
AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Christoph Gradmann, (University of Heidelberg)
A Colonial Laboratory. Robert Koch and Tropical Medicine
Afternoon Seminars are held at 4 pm in Room 2.57 Second Floor, Simon
Building.
Tea is served at 3:30 pm.
For information on any of the One-Day Workshops, please contact the
organiser.
More information is available at
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/events/
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Carsten Timmermann, PhD
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
The University of Manchester, Simon Building, Room 2.36
Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Phone +44-(0)161-275 7950 Fax +44-(0)161-275 5699
Department Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
Project Website: http://www.cancer-history.org
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