We are pleased to announce our seminar programme for 2017-2018.
All seminars will be held in room S8.08 in the Strand Building at King’s College London, from 16:00-17:30. All are welcome.
Please contact Dr. Chris Manias (chris.manias AT kcl.ac.uk) if you have any queries or would like to be added to our mailing list.
For more information about the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at KCL, please see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/research/chostm/index.aspx
2017
27 September: Kathryn Schoefert (KCL)
One Brain? Comparing human and non-human animal brains in the mid-20th century
11 October: Scott Vrecko (KCL)
Title TBC
25 October: Robin Scheffler (MIT)
A Contagious Cause: The Search for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of American Biomedicine
8 November: Chiara Thumiger (Warwick)
Quasi Phreneticus: Metaphorical and technical interactions in the history of the ancient disease concept phrenitis
22 November: Daniel Margoscy (Cambridge)
The Natural History of Satyrs: Mythology and Science from Conrad Gesner to Charles Darwin
6 December: Amanda Rees (York)
Othering the Brother: class, race, species and Neandert(h)als in 20th century popular fiction
2018
17 January: Samiksha Sehrawat (Newcastle)
Title TBC
31 January: Tiago Mata (UCL)
Economic literacy and popular histories of economics since 1945
14 February: Kathleen Vongsathorn (Warwick)
“We are the little doctors”: Midwives, Perceptions of Expertise, and Shifting Engagement with Hospitals in Uganda, 1918-1979
28 February: Francesca Bray (Edinburgh)
Moving crops and the scales of history
14 March: Chris Renwick (York)
Population Science and Democracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
28 March: Richard Oosterhoff (Cambridge)
Making Common Sense: The Untutored Mind in Early Modern Europe
2 May: Jana Funke (Exeter)
Transvestites, Sexo-Aesthetic Inverts and Eonists: Emerging Understandings of Trans Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Science and Literature
16 May: Mikael Hård (Darmstadt)
How to Write a Global History of Technology?
30 May: Tamar Novick (MPIWG)
Urine & Gold: A History of Threats and Wonders
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