Past conferences

Below is a list of previous conferences organised by CHSTM.

2016

RCPsych History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group workshop (10 November 2016)
History of Psychiatry Wikipedia Editathon (11 November 2016)
Bodies, Technologies, Objects: A Medical Humanities Laboratory workshop (6 September 2016)

Medical Humanities Laboratory Launch Event (19 November 2015)
Locating Forensic Science and Medicine (24 and 25 July 2015)
The Dog in 20th Century Science – Science in the 20th Century Dog (26 June 2015)
Medicines, Translations and Histories (11 and 12 June 2015)
Stories about science: exploring science communication and entertainment media (4 and 5 June 2015)

Science and technology at NATO (27 June 2014)
John Pickstone memorial meeting (20 June 2014)
Playing God: exploring the intersections between science, religion and entertainment media (31 May and 1 June 2014)

Working Atmospheres: Weather and Climate Services in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (21 and 22 November 2013)
24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (21 to Sunday 28 July 2013)
Dogs in History and Culture 1750-2000 (1 February 2013)

Animal Models, Model Animals? Meanings and Practices in the Biomedical Sciences (20 and 21 September 2012)
Cold War/Blue Planet: the rise of the environmental sciences in a divided world (27 to 29 June 2012)
Putting the science in fiction (25 April 2012)

After 1918: history and politics of influenza in the 20th and 21st centuries (24 to 26 August 2011)
City weathers: meteorology and urban design 1950-2010 (23 to 24 June 2011)
BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2011 (4 to 6 January 2011)

Politics and practices: the post-war history of women's health (22 to 23 October 2010)
Forensic cultures (11 to 12 June 2010)
Whither the history of 19th century medicine? (21 May 2010)

Drugs, standards and chronic illness (27 and 28 November 2009)
Cultures of hygiene/Creole science: a two-day symposium (3 and 4 September 2009)
British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2009 (7 and 9 January 2009)

Climate Matters (9 and 10 October 2008)
The Health and Welfare of the Manufactured Animal (19 September 2008)
Veterinary Science and Empire (18 September 2008)
Third Annual Conference on Science and the Public (21 and 22 June 2008)
Communicating Medicine: Objects and Objectives (7 March 2008)

Nature behind glass: historical and theoretical perspectives on natural science collections (6 to 8 September 2007)
British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2007 (28 June to 1 July 2007)
Re-Imagining paediatrics: writing the history of paediatrics (18 May 2007)
Sites and styles: Exploring the Comparative History of Cancer (22 to 24 March 2007)
Theorica et practica: medical texts and practice in the earlier middle ages (10 March 2007)
Developments in mental health since 1945: international and local perspectives (23 February 2007)
Computers in use: historical and social perspectives (22 and 23 July 2006)
History of clinical iatrogenesis: before and after Ivan Illich (19 May 2006)
Perspectives and problems: innovation in the NHS (16 March 2006)
Centre and periphery in the history of science, technology and medicine (11 March 2006)
Challenging the altitudes (5 December 2005)
Patients and pathways: cancer therapies in historical and sociological perspective (6-8 October 2005)
Big issues, big pictures and the history of science, technology and medicine (24 and 25 June 2005)
Enabling the past: new perspectives in the history of disability (17-19 June 2005)
Mediating biomedicine: engaging, resisting, negotiating (10 and 11 September 2004)
BSHS Postgraduate Conference (6 to 8 January 2004)
Devices and designs: medical technologies in historical perspective (11 to 13 July 2003)