'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia

Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England

Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history

CANCELLED

Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?

CANCELLED

Anna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Renaissance eugenics

Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

Elena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

Susanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain

Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

CANCELLED

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

CANCELLED

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility

Valerie Worth (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86

Boyd Brogan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century

Nicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility

Zubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine

Tamar Novick (MPI, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

Leah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea

Aya Homei (University of Manchester).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine

Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century

Lisa Malich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain

Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Malthus and the South Sea

Alison Bashford (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860–1960

Claire Jones (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre

Cathy McClive (Durham University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England

Alexandra Walsham (Faculty of History).

Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 20:30-22:00

One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'

Helen King (Open University).

Room G21, Faculty of Classics.

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:15-18:30

The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s

Sandra Eder (University of Zurich).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century

Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present

Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy

Emma-Jayne Graham (Open University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England

Marisa Benoit (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland

Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century

CANCELLED

Ed Ramsden (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

British 'sexology' and the uses of the past

Kate Fisher (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'

Susanne Lettow (Freie Universität Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45

Martina Schlünder (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood

Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s–1960s

Sandrine Bertaux (Marmara University, Istanbul).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800

Florence Vienne (Technical University, Braunschweig).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England

Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience

Deborah Nicholson (University of the West of Scotland, Paisley).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context

Conan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark

Anne Løkke (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys

Suzanne Anker (School of Visual Arts, New York).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages

William MacLehose (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story

Lynn Morgan (Mount Holyoke College).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate

Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice

Evelleen Richards (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives

Sigrid Weigel (Centre for Literature Research, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States

Jean-Paul Gaudillière (CERMES, Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference

Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction

Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College, London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2006, 17:00-18:30