Category: Seminars

Clare Edington, University of California, San Diego
Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam

Dr Sarah Dry (University of Cambridge)
From the cradle of systems thinking to the birth of global climate: the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and beyond

Dr Carrie Friese (London School of Economics)
More-than-Human Humanitarianism: Bioscience, Care and the Problem of Sacrificial Logics

Dr Barbara Kirsi Silva (Universidad Católica de Chile)
Science, Politics, and Astronomers in the 1960s. Observing the Stars to Understand the South

Dr Fiona Williamson (Singapore Management University)
Controlling Urban Atmospheres: Air Conditioning as a Social Marker in Colonial Singapore

Professor Helen M. Rozwadowski (University of Connecticut Avery Point)
Visualizing the Undersea: Science, Technology and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Representations

Dr Claire Jones (University of Kent)
An amazing British invention? The toothbrush in 20th century life

Dr Greg Hollin (University of Sheffield)
Hard knock life: Concussion, dementia, and sporting subjectivities

Dr Joy Zhang (University of Kent)
What science will have been: A reflection on global governance and the practice of science

Dr Scott Midson (University of Manchester)
Eros, erotics, robotics: Towards a critical reading of perfection in lovotics