How TV made 'The Naked Ape'

Miles Kempton (Christ's College).

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

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained

Ann Kelly (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London

Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution

Anna Toropova (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties

Somak Biswas (Faculty of History).

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

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

The global health focus on early life: origin stories

Michelle Pentecost (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War

Andreas Killen (The City College of New York, CUNY).

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

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

A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

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

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

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

Various speakers.

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

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

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

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933

Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

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

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics

Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

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

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

The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China

Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

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

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

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

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

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Zoom.

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

Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i

Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

Zoom.

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

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

Ryan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

Chris Otter (Ohio State University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

Elizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

Zoom.

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

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

Grace Redhead (University College London).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

CANCELLED

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

'You have to incorporate the client's belief system... even when it is the opposite of your own': CBT and psychotherapy in Ghana since 1974

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

The Chinese calorie: nutrition science in early 20th-century China

Hilary Smith (University of Denver and Needham Research Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

In the same vein: the hepatitis B vaccine and America's dirty blood

Lochlann Jain (Stanford University).

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

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

Alzheimer's disease: the history of a working title

Lara Keuck (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

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

Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1861–1913

Michael Sappol (Uppsala University).

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

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

Anatomy museum on the move

Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

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

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

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute

Marissa Mika (University College London).

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

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959

Gareth Millward (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

'Living differently from now on': the utopia of abortion activism in 1970s France

Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris).

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

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Handbuchwissenschaft, or: how big books maintain knowledge in the twentieth-century life sciences

CANCELLED

Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

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

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Genes against beans: favism, malaria and nationalism in the Middle East

Elise Burton (Newnham College, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

'Don't eat the pudding': food and nourishment in the nineteenth-century English prison system

Margaret Charleroy (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

The cult of youth: rejuvenation in interwar Britain

James Stark (University of Leeds).

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

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

Regulatory regimes for diagnostic devices

Stuart Hogarth (Department of Sociology).

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

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

The place of birth: mothers, midwives, birth attendants, and choices about childbirth in twentieth-century Uganda

Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick).

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

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

Malaria and the colonial frontier in Manchuria, 1905–1940s

Jeong-ran Kim (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford).

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

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

Genomics and the industrialisation of medical tests, 1980–2000

Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Picturing the unusual: medical photography as an 'experimental system'

Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH).

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

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

The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'

Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

The life of forms: biology and modernist sculpture

Ed Juler (Newcastle University).

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

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

The Colindale typers: bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service

Claas Kirchhelle (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century

Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool).

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

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

The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900

Tatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University).

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

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

The lost beasts: international palaeontology and the evolution of the mammals, 1880–1950

Chris Manias (KCL).

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

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade

Sarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

After the end of disease: looking past the epidemic narrative

Dora Vargha (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

'Highly coloured': race, ethnicity and the NHS

Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s

María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine

Caitjan Gainty (King's College London).

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

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

Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France

Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

'Operation ouch': America's response to polio before a vaccine

Stephen Mawdsley (Clare Hall, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 17:00-18:30

Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation and science in Latin America

Carlos López Beltrán (UNAM, Mexico).

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

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Off the reservation: how indigenous bodies became big data

Joanna Radin (Yale University).

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

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement

Niki Vermeulen (University of Manchester).

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

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

The multiple inventions of transgenic mice

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

The 'premature arrival of the future': temporalities of cloning in 1970s life sciences and culture

Christina Brandt (Ruhr University Bochum).

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

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Reinventing infectious disease: antibiotic resistance and drug development at the Bayer Company, 1940–1980

Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo).

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

Tuesday 08 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Pregnancy, pathology and public morals: making antenatal care in early twentieth-century Edinburgh

Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

The diseased convict and the Australian voyage: medical knowledge, penal reform and colonisation

Katherine Foxhall (University of Manchester).

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

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

Genetically ethnic? Medicine, heredity and immigration in post-war Britain

Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience

Katja Guenther (Harvard University).

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

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 17:00-18:30

'Der neue Trend – no smoking please!': creating the non-smoker in West Germany, 1945–1975

Rosemary Elliot (University of Glasgow).

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

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain

Elizabeth Toon (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Amanda Rees (University of York).

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

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

Biotrash: medical garbage in India

Sarah Hodges (University of Warwick).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition

Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester).

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

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

Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO and the global programme to eradicate smallpox

Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL).

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

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

How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938

Bonnie Evans (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine

Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo).

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

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

‘The dog days’: rabies in England, 1830–1860

Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

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

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

Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies

Andreas Mayer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

The H-bomb, fishermen and an unusual infection: the Bikini incident and the rise of a new medicine in Cold War Japan

Aya Homei (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 28 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

From standardization to welfare: the origins of the '3 Rs' approach to managing laboratory animals

Robert Kirk (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 07 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual

Roger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick).

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

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