I am delighted to announce the Michaelmas 2014 programme for Global Science, a seminar series devoted to global histories of science, technology and medicine.
The seminars are hosted by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.
21st October 2014
Title: Material memories of travel and encounter: the albums of a Victorian naval surgeon
Speaker: Felix Driver (Royal Holloway)
Respondent: Jim Secord (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
4th November 2014
Title: Medical intervention and political autonomy on British India’s hostile Afghan border
Speaker: Zujaja Tauqeer (University of Oxford)
18 November 2014
Title: Scientific capacity building in East Africa: heads and hands in global science
Speaker: Branwyn Polykett (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)
Respondent: Emma Hunter (History, University of Cambridge)
2nd December 2014
Title: Visualising difference: ethnographic imagery and the tribes of India, 1850-1900
Speaker: Cam Sharp-Jones (University of Kent)
Respondent: Shinjini Das (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)
