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CHSTM Research Seminar, 9 December 2025

by Carsten Timmermann | Nov 5, 2025 | Events, Seminars

Dr Angela Cassidy
From shared to separated health – and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria

NEW DATE: CHSTM Research Seminar, 2 December 2025

by Carsten Timmermann | Oct 21, 2025 | Events, Seminars

Dr Gemma Cirac-Claveras
Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s

Online Workshop: (Melting) Ice. 17 November 2025

by Carsten Timmermann | Oct 7, 2025 | Events

Jointly with the JRRI and the MCI: Second event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia.
17 November 2025, 2-4:30pm

Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025

by Carsten Timmermann | Sep 30, 2025 | Events, Seminars

The Future of the Autism Concept
Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green

East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 11 November 2025

by Carsten Timmermann | Sep 15, 2025 | Events, Seminars

Dr Lewis Bremner
The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan

CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025

by Carsten Timmermann | Sep 12, 2025 | Events, Seminars

Dr Alan D. Meyer
Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry

Discussion Event: Extinction in the Museum

by Carsten Timmermann | Sep 2, 2025 | Events

Please join us for a public discussion on 18 September, 6-7:30pm, led by Sadiah Qureshi, historian of extinction and author of Vanished, and Rachel Webster, curator of botany at Manchester Museum.

CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025

by Carsten Timmermann | Aug 17, 2025 | Events, Seminars

Dr Brandy Schillace
Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich

ESHS Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings

by Carsten Timmermann | Aug 15, 2025 | Events

We are extremely pleased to welcome the European Society for the History of Science at the University of Manchester for their Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings on 9–12 September 2025.