Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester

The lunchtime seminar is held on most Tuesdays during the teaching semester, unless otherwise indicated, at 1pm in the CHSTM Seminar Room, 2.57 Simon Building (directions http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/index.aspx). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes in length, followed by a period for audience questions (ending before 2pm).

Each lunchtime seminar series is organised by postgraduates within the Centre. The current organisers are Rachel Boon and Rachel Douglas. You can keep up to date on the lunchtime programme by following us on twitter @chstmphds or via our blog at https://chstmphdblog.wordpress.com/
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Lunchtime seminar series: February-June 2016

23rd February - Laura Sellers, University of Leeds, Disease, professionalisation and research; creating a prison medical service in Victorian England

1st March - Jessica Borge, Birkbeck School of Arts, University of London, Selling Condoms to Clinics: The London Rubber Company and the Family Planning Association in pre-'Pill' Britain

8th March - Georgia Newmarch, Lancaster University, Perceptions of coal power 1947-1974

15th March - Erin Beeston, University of Manchester, Liverpool Road Station's transformation from a derelict station to a national museum

12th April - Cam Sharp Jones, University of Manchester, The geographies of man: mapping tribal 'landscapes' in nineteenth century India

19th April - Deborah Dubald, European University Institute, Italy, Nature and local power: mayors and natural history museums in provincial France, 1800-1860

26th April - Emily Herring, University of Leeds, Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire's (1879-1915) Bergsonian biology

3rd May - Rachel Douglas, University of Manchester, The Sound of Worship: Architectural acoustics in British ecclesiastical space 1850-1900

10th May - Rupert Cole, University College London and the Royal Institution, "The honeymoon of science is over": George Porter and the Establishment response to the "crisis" in science, c.1968-c.1973

17th May - Kathrin Hiepko, University of Manchester, Diabetes care, prevention and rehabilitation in the GDR (1958-1989)

24th May - Andrea Del Campo, University of Manchester, Work accidents in Chile 1930s-1950s

31st May - Nicola Sugden, University of Manchester, Integrating the history and philosophy of D.W. Winnicott's consulting room

7th June - Andrew Ball, University of Manchester, Casting cattle: science, ritual slaughter and the Weinberg Pen from 1927

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