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CHSTM Research Seminar: 30 May 2023
Dr Clare Jones (University of Kent)
An amazing British invention? The toothbrush in 20th century life

CHSTM Research Seminar: 16 May 2023
Dr Greg Hollin (University of Sheffield)
Hard knock life: Concussion, dementia, and sporting subjectivities

CHSTM Research Seminar: 18 April 2023
Dr Joy Zhang (University of Kent)
What science will have been: A reflection on global governance and the practice of science

CHSTM Research Seminar: 2 May 2023
Dr Scott Midson (University of Manchester)
Eros, erotics, robotics: Towards a critical reading of perfection in lovotics

Special Seminar: 26 January 2023
Dr Nils Hansson, Centre for Health and Society, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
The Gender Award Gap: Invisibility of women in medical prize cultures

CHSTM Research Seminar: 6 December 2022
Professor Penny Harvey, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure: Engineering the containment of nuclear waste

CHSTM Research Seminar: 22 November 2022
Dr. Alexander Medcalf, Dept of History, University of York
“The most extensive photographic collection in the world”: Seeing Health “through the eyes” of the WHO, 1948-90’

CHSTM Research Seminar: 25 October 2022
Dr Noémi Tousignant, Dept of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Cheap survival and a too-expensive vaccine: Racial valuation and Hepatitis B in Africa, 1980s-90s

CHSTM Research Seminar: 11 October 2022
Dr. Aditya Ramesh, Department of History, University of Manchester – Inventing the Urban River: The Case of the Cooum in Madras City

David Shreeve Doctoral Studentship in the History of Medicine
The University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and John Rylands Research Institute invite applications to undertake a fully funded 3 year doctoral studentship researching the history of neurology, neurosurgery and the brain sciences in Britain across the twentieth century.
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