Séminaire de l'université de Manchester

CHSTM Seminar Series

Semester 2

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester

Tuesday, at 4pm (with tea and biscuits from 3.30pm) in room 2.57 on the second floor of the Simon Building (No 59 on the Campus Map)

31 January

Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln)

‘Sexology, Hormones and Medical Experiments in the “Latin Atlantic World”: International Networks between Southern Europe and Latin America, c. 1926-1950’

14 February

Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
‘“A spawning of the nether pit”: American responses to the NHS’

28 February

Saurabh Mishra (University of Sheffield)

‘Feathered Folk of the “Eastern Skies”: Birds and Human-Animal Relationship in Colonial India’

14 March

Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool)
‘The Politics of Sisyphus: waiting lists and waiting times in the battle for authority in the British NHS 1974-2004’

28 March

Claas Kirchhelle (University of Oxford)
‘The Colindale Typers – Bacteriophage and the British Public Health Laboratory Service’

25 April

Michael Sappol (European Institutes for Advanced Study) 
TBA

9 May

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)

‘Only meer Love to Learning”: A rediscovered travel diary of naturalist and collector James Petiver (c.1665-1718)’

23 May

Marie Hicks (Illinois Institute of Technology)

‘Programmed Inequality: Exploring Gender and the Fiction of Meritocracy in Computing’