Lunchtime seminars
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 (see how to find us for directions). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes in length, followed by a period for audience questions (ending before 2pm).
Each semester's lunchtime seminar series is organised by postgraduates within the Centre. The current organiser is David Hirst.
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Programme for January-May 2012
31 January
Ellen van Reuler, University of Manchester
'Same same, but different?' Illustrations of the use of categories in comparative historical research
7 February
Ingemar Pettersson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
On the boundary of linearity: the split between basic and applied research in Sweden in the late 1940s
14 February
Gunnar Ellingsen, University of Bergen
The Norwegian Sea and a science of ocean currents, 1876-1966
21 February
Sam Robinson, University of Manchester
De-mobbing British oceanography: the founding of the National Institute of Oceanography
28 February
Val Harrington, University of Manchester
'Trouble at the Gut Trust': The history of the IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Network
6 March
No Seminar
13 March
Alexander Hall, University of Manchester
A unique agreement: the creation and breakdown of the 'gentleman's agreement' for flood insurance in the UK
20 March
Martin Moore, University of Warwick
Chronically intriguing: state and medical responses to Type II diabetes, 1948-1992
24 April
David Hirst, University of Manchester
Push and pull: the science-policy interface and the making of the IPCC
1 May
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, Humboldt University of Berlin
Parents in trouble - the Civil Law Code for the German Empire as motor of the research in heredity and conception (1850-1900)
8 May
Katherine Platt, University of Manchester
Technology and regional identity: Siemens in the North of England
15 May
Imogen Clarke, University of Manchester
The Science Museum and ‘modern’ physics, 1923-1939
22 May
Victoria Bates, University of Exeter
'Not a special science': forensic medicine and the child's body in late nineteenth-century Britain
29 May
Jennifer Goodare, University of Manchester
'Neither formal agenda, nor record': the role of lunch in science policy, 1964-72