by Carsten Timmermann | Feb 9, 2026 | Events, Seminars
12 May 2026, 4pmCHSTM Seminar Room: Simon 2.57 [maps and travel]Online Access tbc. Professor Mary Augusta Brazelton, University of Cambridge Looking up at the ‘Little Moon’: Media and Mass Participation in Astronomy Under Mao Abstract Sputnik’s launch represented a...
by Carsten Timmermann | Feb 9, 2026 | Events, Seminars
21 April 2026, 4pmCHSTM Seminar Room: Simon 2.57 [maps and travel]Online Access tbc. Dr Sarah Qidway, University of York Aligarh’s Scientific Society (est. 1864) Abstract On 9 January 1864, the Scientific Society held its inaugural meeting in Ghazipur, India. Founded...
by Carsten Timmermann | Feb 9, 2026 | Events, Seminars
17 March 2026, 4pmCHSTM Seminar Room: Simon 2.57 [maps and travel]Online Access tbc. Dr Siobhán Hearne, Department of History, University of Manchester Soviet Healthcare Diplomacy in the Global South Abstract After the death of Stalin, the Soviet government began to...
by Carsten Timmermann | Jan 14, 2026 | Events, Seminars
3 February 2026, 4pm BSTSimon Building, Room 2.57 [maps and travel]https://zoom.us/j/99626478734 Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science Abstract: For many decades, historians...
by Carsten Timmermann | Nov 5, 2025 | Events, Seminars
9 December 2025, 4pm GMTSimon Building, Room 2.57 [maps and travel]Online Access [zoom link] Angela Cassidy, University of Exeter From shared to separated health – and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria Abstract The family of microbes known as...
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