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EIGHTH CARDWELL MEMORIAL LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY PROFESSOR THOMAS LAQUEUR Department of History, UC Berkeley "Technology and the material sciences of the dead" TIME: 6.00 PM, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 VENUE: Manchester Crematorium, Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, M21 7GZ, UK. All are welcome to attend. Thomas Laqueur, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, is best known for his groundbreaking work in the history of sexuality, which has resulted in two highly acclaimed books, _Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud_ (Harvard University Press, 1990), and more recently _Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation_ (Zone Books, 2003). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the winner of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award for 2008. During his visit to Manchester, Professor Laqueur will present work from his current research project, "The Work of the Dead". For directions to Manchester Crematorium please consult the Crematorium's website: http://www.manchestercrematorium.co.uk/contact.htm For further information regarding this event, please visit the website of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/seminars/cardwelllecture/ or contact the CHSTM Seminar Series organisers: Katherine Foxhall, [log in to unmask]; Emma Jones, [log in to unmask]