Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “The few cubic centimetres inside your skull”: electro-convulsive therapy in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Dr Lisa Mullen (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “Strange things may be accomplished:” Gurus between Science and Miracles
  Professor Ruth Harris
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital
  Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Smallpox eradication in China and emerging narratives of global health, 1949-79
  Dr Mary Brazelton (University of Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Catholicism, reproduction, and eugenics in interwar Hungary
  Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The intemperate brain: debates over habit and heredity in the 19th century
  Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Venereal disease in the British Empire
  Professor Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and mathematical practice in early modern London
  Dr Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Radical artisans, divine design, and evolution in Britain, 1819-36
  Dr Jonathan Topham (University of Leeds)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The history of poisons: toxic matters, scientific actors and socio-political processes, 19th-20th c.
  Professor Judith Rainhorn (Universite Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne/Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Murder in Palestine? Revisiting the causes of the Acre/Akka typhoid outbreak of 1948
  Dr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - “Whipping Boy” to “Envy of the World”: Promoting the NHS at Home and Abroad, 1948-1998
  Professor Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - German science, French translations, and the global market of books (1810-1850)
  Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
  Dr Simon Werrett (UCL)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Transnational History of Clockwork Automata: Karakuri Ningyō and the Art of Artificial Life
  Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Signals from other worlds: the technological imagination in British wireless cultures, circa 1900-1940
  There will be no seminar next week, 6 May (Bank Holiday)
  Dr Richard Noakes (University of Exeter)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815
  Dr Erin Spinney (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - “Dead souls”: mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds from GULAG, 1930-1955
  There will be no seminar next week, 27 May (Bank Holiday)
  Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, Germany c. 1900
  Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies
  Dr John Waller (Michigan State University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the Papal bull Coeli et terrae
  Dr Neil Tarrant (University of York)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - 2019 HSMT Postraduate Conference: Ch-Ch-Changes in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
  Various Speakers

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery
  Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Hands-on Theory in a Sailing School: Dieppe, 1675
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Margaret Schotte (York University, Canada)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 1 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The First Egyptian Society (1741-3): The Royal Society, natural philosophy, and antiquarianism
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - William Playfair's cross-channel transfers in the 1780s (title TBC)
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Jean-François Dunyach (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - History of Chemistry: Who cares?
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 12 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “The Moslems want to see everything from close by”: seeing in pre-modern Eurasia
  Yusen Yu (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 19 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Writing the rules of reason: inscriptive practice and the rise of mathematical logic
  David Dunning (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 26 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The science of money: Isaac Newton’s mastering of the mint
  Alice Marples (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology; case studies on ceramics
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Moujan Matin (Toronto)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 16 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Imperial and empirical: crafting medicine in the 19th century
  Martin Robert (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 23 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “Never so at Home:” Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham
  Georgina Montgomery (Michigan State University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sonic emblems & magic squares: Atalanta fugiens and Ludic humanism in the 21st century
  Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Scholar Performer)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - “Think of the position I have been put in since first grade, just because I passed a silly test of describing pictures”: gifted children, intellect, and expertise in modern Britain and America
  Dr Jennifer Crane (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Representing current events: reflections from a historian
  Robert Lacey (Historian and author)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Compound words, synthetic world: an information history of modern chemistry
  Dr Evan Hepler-Smith (Duke University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Tracing the future of research: managing a public funding body
  Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - New under the sun: Jews and climate in Palestine 1897-1948
  Dr Netta Cohen (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Public history in China: history, memory, and politics
  Professor Na Li (Zhejiang University)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - How Joseph Banks made climate move
  Harriet Mercer (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Historians and gaming: consulting for video and board games
  Daniel Burt (Oxford), Perrine Poiron (Sorbonne Université and UQAM)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773-1779)
  Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Medical museums: handling specimens from the past
  Professor Richard Fraser (McGill University), Éloïse Quétel (Sorbonne Université), Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology: case studies on ceramics
  Dr Moujan Matin (University of Toronto)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Connected historians: YouTube and new media
  Ugo Bimar (‘Confessions d’histoire’ channel), Matus Lazar (University of Oxford and ‘M. Laser History’ channel)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Hermetic tradition and scientific revolution revisited: the case of Francesco Patrizi
  Dr Vojtěch Hladky (Charles University, Prague)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Appreciating and preserving: archives and special collections
  Dr Mary Hague-Yearl (McGill University), Dr Florent Palluault, (Médiathèque François-Mitterrand, Poitiers)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Astrological forecasting of epidemic disease in early modern England: a forgotten chapter in the history of public health?
  Dr Michelle Pfeffer (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Local historians and the historical profession
  Mark Davies (Oxford local historian, author), Liz Woolley (Oxford local historian, author)
  Historians in the Public Sphere

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism: historical and historiographical considerations
  Dr Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Viruses in the making: the notion of emergence seen from the history of influenza
  Dr Frédéric Vagneron (University of Strasbourg)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Food, Farming and Trade in Medieval Croatia: an archaeological perspective
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kelly Reed (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Tarzan The Man Ape: chimpanzees, science and colonial memory at the Pasteur Institute in Kindia
  Dr Marion Thomas (University of Strasbourg & Maison Française d’Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Bearing Witness. Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000)
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2021 - Picture This: Charting Themes Across HSMT
  Various Speakers

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Socialist medicine: rethinking the history of global health
  Dr Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Burn: an incendiary history of lockdown Britain
  Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The British Cotton Belt: carrying Mendel to the edge of empire, 1900-1914
  Dr Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Prestige asymmetry in the popular image of physics
  Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A hospital of her own: interwar colonial nurses and the mobility of power
  Dr Hagit Krik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The origins of medicine in the prehistoric and archaic Greece
  Dr Tomáš Alušík (Charles University, Prague)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Manuscript cultures of mathematics: east-west networks of knowledge
  Dr Alessandra Petrocchi (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sacred histories of public health: leper asylums and the medical-evangelical state in twentieth-century British India
  Please note this talk is online, registration for which is required at the link below.
  Dr Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Rodents and the balance of nature: wildlife protection as public health in the interwar Union of South Africa
  Dr Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars