Seminars

Research seminars are integral to academic life at CHSTM. We maintain two regular, wide-ranging seminar series. These seminars are open to anyone who is interested: students, fellow academics and the wider public - all welcome.

CHSTM Research Seminars

We are very pleased to announce that our CHSTM Research Seminars are back. We aim to produce a varied programme featuring invited speakers from institutions across Britain and the world, ranging from well-known senior figures to promising younger members of the profession.

We are particularly keen to foster an interdisciplinary atmosphere; alongside all aspects of the history of science, technology and medicine, our speakers' institutional backgrounds have included science studies, cultural history, social anthropology, museums work and many other fields.

Unless otherwise indicated, meetings will take place in the CHSTM Seminar Room, 2.57 Simon Building (see the University's maps and travel page for directions). We will also stream seminars via zoom. Links will be announced before the seminars. Sign up for our mailing list to receive updates and check our CHSTM Blog for seminar announcements and abstracts.

7 October 2025, 4:00-5:30pm

Dr Alan D. Meyer (Associate Professor, Department of History, Auburn University)
Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry

9 December 2025, 4:00-5:30pm

Dr Angela Cassidy (University of Exeter)
Title to be confirmed

Lunchtime (Work in Progress) Seminars

This is a less formal weekly series of half-hour papers and work-in-progress reports. The lunchtime seminar provides valuable experience for graduate students from CHSTM and elsewhere who may be presenting for the first time.

The lunchtime seminar series runs throughout the academic year every alternate Tuesday, 1-2pm. Currently all seminars are held remotely, via Zoom. Each semester's lunchtime seminar series is organised by postgraduates within the Centre. The current convenor is Krittapak Ngamvaseenont: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

21 October 2025, 1:00-2:00pm

Allegra Hahn (University of Manchester)
Philosophical Therapeutics: The “Doctor–Patient” Relationship in Seneca’s Dialogues

11 November 2025, 1:00-2:00pm

Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham)
The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970

25 November 2025, 1:00-2:00pm

Katherine Enright (University of Cambridge)
Capturing the ‘Rhinoceros Song’: Ethnozoology, Sound Recording and Physical Anthropology in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900

9 December 2025, 1:00-2:00pm

Swagatalakshmi Saha (University of Manchester)
Jewellers and Blacksmiths as Clockmakers in Colonial India: Networks of Knowledge Transfer

Further details will be announced on Bluesky: @chstmphds.bsky.social, and X (Twitter) @chstmphds, and on the CHSTM mailing list.

ALL WELCOME

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