Category: Seminars

Prof Manon Parry
Risky Histories, Medical Heritage, and Human Remains

Clare Hickman, University of Newcastle
‘Sick hands, thin and white, were always slipping offerings across my windowsill, offerings for the little birdlings’: Multispecies sensory encounters within and around British tuberculosis sanatoria

Amelia Bonea, CHSTM
Archives of the Earth: Fossil Histories and the Global Entanglements of Indian Palaeontology, 1920s-1970s

Adedamola Adetiba, University of Huddersfield/CHSTM
Understanding Antimicrobial Stewardship from a Historical Context in Nigeria

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