CHSTM Seminars

January

 

Tuesday 21^st January 2020

 

13.00-14.00 Erin Beeston (CHSTM, University of Manchester)

‘For arts, science or industry? The tense tale of the foundation of Manchester’s science museum’

2.57 Simon Building

 

Tuesday 28^th January 2020

 

13.00-14.00 Robert Naylor (CHSTM, University of Manchester)

‘The Bryson Synthesis: Piercing a Fog of Economic Complication with a Calamitous Climate Future’

2.57 Simon Building

 

15.30-17.00 Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham)

‘Higher and colder: A history of extreme physiology and exploration’

2.57 Simon Building

 

 

February

 

Tuesday 4^th February 2020

13.00-14.00 Leah De Quattro (CHSTM)

 ‘Negotiating knowledge and control: A qualitative study of group-led antenatal sessions’

2.57 Simon Building

 

Tuesday 11^th February 2020

19.00 Angela Saini (writer & journalist)

The return of race science

Manchester Museum

 

Tuesday 18^th February 2020

13.00-14.00 Kelly Stanford (University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute)

Science/Art Communication Research Study

2.57 Simon Building

 

Tuesday 25^th February 2020

15.30-17.00  Beatriz Pichel (De Montford University)

Photography and the making of modern medicine in France, 1860–1914

2.57 Simon Building

March

Tuesday 3rd March 2020

 

13.00-14.00 Jemma Houghton (CHSTM, University of Manchester)

 “Being Modern”: The Visual Culture of Twentieth-Century Plant-Based Drugs

2.57 Simon Building

 

Tuesday 10^th March 2020

 

15.30-17.00 Laura Tisdall (Queen Mary’s, University of London)

‘Just a stage I’m going through’: Lesbian and gay adolescents, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis in Britain, c. 1950–1990

2.57 Simon Building

 

Tuesday 17^th March 2020

 

13.00-14.00 Kristin Hay (University of Strathclyde)

TBC

2.57 Simon Building

 

Tuesday 24^th March 2020

 

15.30-17.00 Caitjan Gainty (King’s College, London)
Healthy scepticism

2.57 Simon Building

April

 

Tuesday 21^st April 2020

13.00-14.00 Grant Collier (History, University of Manchester)

Placing ‘the’ Industrial Revolution: dis-aggregation and the everyday at Quarry Bank Mill, 1830-1860

2.57 Simon Building

 

15.30-17.00 Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London)

‘Brainwashing for benevolent purposes’? Historical reflections on behavioural therapy from the Cold War to CBT

2.57 Simon Building

May

 

Tuesday 5^th May 2020

13.00-14.00 Iqra Choudhry (CHSTM)

TBC

2.57 Simon Building

 

 

15.30-17.00 Cornelius Borck (University of Lübeck)

Changing approaches to visualization in brain research: a case study based on the Max-Planck Society

2.57 Simon Building

 

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