CHSTM seminar series
The CHSTM seminar is held weekly during the teaching semester. Unless otherwise indicated, the seminar takes place on Tuesdays at 4pm in the CHSTM Seminar Room, 2.57 Simon Building (see how to find us for directions), with tea served from 3.30pm. Seminars are typically around 50 minutes in length, followed by a period for audience questions.
The current seminar co-ordinators are Dr Leucha Veneer and Dr Neil Pemberton: please contact either of them if you have any queries about seminar arrangements.
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Programme for January-May 2012
31 January
Ilana Löwy, CERMES, Paris
Paved with good intentions: testing prophylactic approaches on humans in developing countries
14 February
Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London
Scripting pain: language and meaning, 1760 to the present
Joanna Bourke will be also giving an inter-faculty lecture entitled ‘Bodily Pain, Combat and the Politics of Rhetoric’ on Monday 13 February, in the Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre at 5pm.
21 February
Katherine Foxhall, King’s College London
Chronologically challenged: Hildegard of Bingen’s
First World War medieval migraine
28 February
Rhodri Hayward, Queen Mary, University of London
Man meets dog meets Richard Layard: evolutionary psychology and the making of modern Britain
WEDNESDAY 7 March
Otto Sibum, Uppsala University
Inventing Coulomb’s Law: 'Une Balance Electrique’, or, the material culture of French Enlightened rationality.
Otto Sibum will also be giving the Cardwell Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Experimenting in Manchester and Salford circa 1850' on Tuesday 6 March, in the Lady Hale Building at the University of Salford, 6.30pm.
13
March
Hilary Marland, University of Warwick, and Catherine Cox, University College Dublin
Eugenics before eugenics: mental health, public health and the Irish Problem in Victorian Lancashire
1 May
David Kirby, CHSTM
Darwin on the cutting room floor: evolution, film censorship and the Hays Code
8 May
Martin W Bauer, London School of Economics
The culture of science and how to measure it
15 May
Claire McKechnie, University of Edinburgh
Cancer in the Victorian imagination