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
+44 (0)161 275 0562

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