Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300–1550)

Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Würzburg).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Garga's knowledge of the crow (vāyasavidyā) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology

Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465–1700

Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future

Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University).

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

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

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

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

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

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

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

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

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe

Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

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

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

The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view

Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta).

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

Monday 29 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

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

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

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

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

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

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

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

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

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

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

Yijun Wang (New York University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)

Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Lovesickness (ʿishq) in the Arabic medical commentaries (1200–1520)

Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University).

Cockroft Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30

Arabo-Persian texts as a vehicle for transmission of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern China

Dror Weil (Faculty of History).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

Zoom.

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

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

Monique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

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

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

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

Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia

CANCELLED

Dror Weil (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London

Elaine Leong (University College London).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?

William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 17:00-18:45

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine

Hannah Murphy (King's College London).

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

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

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

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

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

From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century

Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Writing the Scientific Revolution in Louis XIV's France

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel-Aviv University).

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

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

CANCELLED

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

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

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

Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain

Yari Perez-Marin (Durham University).

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

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

Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households

Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).

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

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

Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century

Erica Charters (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine

Maaike van der Lugt (University of Versailles).

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

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Joachim Wtewael and the human body

James Clifton (MFA, Houston).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa

Jane Stephens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes University).

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

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

The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500

Tillmann Taape (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet

CANCELLED

Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).

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

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

Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica

Dániel Margócsy (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750–1830)

Pierre-Etienne Stockland (Columbia University).

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

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity

Anna Winterbottom (University of Sussex).

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

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections

Gabriele Ferrario (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Unit, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

A literary history of medicine: the world's earliest history of medicine, composed in Syria by the physician and poet Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah (d. 1270)

Emilie Savage-Smith (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam

This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

Liana Saif (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world

Katharine Park (Harvard University).

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

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

On the political use of physiognomy around 1500

This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa).

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula

Stefano Cracolici (Durham University).

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

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710–1790): creating a digital edition

David Shuttleton (University of Glasgow).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626–1694)

Sophie Mann (University of Essex).

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

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

Casta paintings and the colonial body

Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500–1720: a case-study of the South West

Jonathan Barry and Peter Elmer (University of Exeter).

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

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages

Sophie Page (University College London).

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

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London

Margaret Pelling (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century

Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650–c.1830

Mark Jenner (University of York).

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

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding

Gabriella Zuccolin (Open University).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

How (not) to read the advertisements of oculists: records, testimonies and the strategy of personal encounters in the early 18th century

Karen Buckle (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

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

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

The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13th–14th centuries)

Chiara Crisciani (University of Pavia).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism

David Leith (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

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

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary

Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary, University of London).

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

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province

Patty Baker (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy

Samuel Cohn (University of Glasgow).

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

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders

Sasha Handley (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world

Natacha Massar (Free University of Brussels).

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

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in Early Modern France

Cathy McClive (Durham University).

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

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster

Lindsey Fitzharris (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section

Adrian Wilson (University of Leeds).

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

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

Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom

Alec Ryrie (Durham University).

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

Tuesday 09 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

‘Murderous pity?’ Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society

Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg).

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

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

Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt

Ayesha Mukherjee (Trinity College).

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

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

Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris

Emma Spary (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

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

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

'Desperate and incurable': defining breast cancer in England c.1550-1800

Marjo Kaartinen (University of Turku).

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

Tuesday 21 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment

David Gentilcore (University of Leicester).

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

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Sterility and the disordered household in Early Modern England and France

Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2006, 17:00-18:30