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.

8 October 2024
Dr James Dunk (University of Sydney)
Waking Up on a Different Planet: Contemporary Histories of Climate Psychology and Ecological Emotion

5 November 2024
Dr Michael Brown (Lancaster University)
Bloodless surgery and surgical wars: medicine, empire, and European modernity, 1870-1914

19 November 2024
Prof Hans Pols (University of Sydney)
Establishing Trading Zones between Knowledge Traditions: Co-Production and Co-Design

3 December 2024
Prof Des Fitzgerald (University College Cork)
Forest Time: Landscapes of RETVRN and the memory-politics of ecotherapy

4 March 2025
Dr Mike Sappol (Uppsala University)
CSSC and CHSTM Joint Research Seminar
Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or
The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet

5 March 2025
Prof John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Fred Jevons Lecture (hosted jointly by MIoIR and CHSTM)
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, and also helps members of the CHSTM community to keep up to date with each other's research.

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 organisers are Daniela Dandes and Xinyue Li.

Visit the CHSTM PhDs blog for the Lunchtime Seminar programme, abstracts, and further details

ALL WELCOME

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