Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, the University of Manchester
Seminar Series Semester One
Seminars are on Tuesdays from 4.oo to 5.30 pm in 2.57 Simon Building. Tea and biscuits available from 3.30.
All are welcome, and please pass this on to interested colleagues.
Organised by Neil Pemberton and Leucha Veneer
18 October Karen Jones (History, University of Kent)
Taxidermy and the ‘Afterlife’ of the Hunt in the 19th century American West.
25 October Jonathan Hogg (History, University of Liverpool)
‘The Family That Feared Tomorrow’: British Nuclear Culture and Individual Experience in the late 1950s.
8 November Stephen Parker (School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester)
Diagnosing Bertolt Brecht: Rethinking Biography and Sensibility in the Light of Medical History.
15 November Ludmilla Jordanova (History, King’s College, London)
Medical Portraiture, Medical History, Medical Humanities: Work in Progress
22 November Noemi Tousignant (LSHTM, London)
Love and Laziness: Scientific Virtue and Memory in Senegal.
29 November Claire McKechnie (English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
‘Monstrous Forms on the Walls’: Palaeontology, Dinosaurs, and the Gothic in Victorian Culture.
6 December Ana Carden-Coyne (History, University of Manchester)
Wounds, Experiments and Ethics: Military Surgery and Patients at War, 1914-1918.
13 December Rhodri Hayward (History, Queen Mary)
Man Meets Dog Meets Richard Layward: Evolutionary Psychology and the Making of Modern Britain.
Dr Neil Pemberton
Research Associate
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Simon Building (Room 2.66)
University of Manchester
Brunswick Street
Manchester, M13 9PL
UK
+44 (0)161 275 5947
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