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Past Seminars

Below is an archival list of the seminars that the Centre for Medical History has hosted or organised in the past:

WhenTimeDescriptionLocationAdd to Calendar
4 May 202314:00

Shame and Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Queen'sAdd this to your calendar
5 May 202214:00

‘I am polluted to the marrow, soaked in abomination!’ Shame and Sexual Health in Modern Britain.

Full details		Queen'sAdd this to your calendar
24 March 202215:00

Historicising South Africa’s “Rape Crisis”: Understandings of and Responses to Sexual Violence, 1970s-1990s ONLINE

Full details		Queens BuildingAdd this to your calendar
24 March 202215:00

Historicising South Africa’s Rape Crisis Understandings of and Responses to Sexual Violence, 1970s-1990s

Full details		WCCEH Boardroom Queens BuildingAdd this to your calendar
4 March 202211:30

Material Identities, Social Bodies: A Workshop on Reading Eighteenth-Century Letters Sarah Fox, Karen Harvey, Emily Vine

Full details		WCCEH Boardroom Queens BuildingAdd this to your calendar
3 March 202215:30

I. pray for yE Health: The Body and Religion in C18th Letters

Full details		Queens BuildingAdd this to your calendar
20 January 202215:00

Histories of HIV/AIDS and care in Britain

Full details		Add this to your calendar
13 May 202015:00

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Add this to your calendar
27 March 202015:30

CANCELLED - Gender, sexuality and maternity in early modern Europe

Full details		Digital Humanities LaboratoryAdd this to your calendar
17 - 18 February 2020

Sex, science, and censorship in the 19th and 20th centuries

Full details		Granada, SpainAdd this to your calendar
30 January 202011:30

Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in Apartheid South Africa: The Sexual Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism in Comparative Perspective

Full details		Welcome Centre BoardroomAdd this to your calendar
29 January 202016:00

Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in Apartheid South Africa: The Sexual Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism in Comparative Perspective

Full details		Amory B106Add this to your calendar
22 January 202015:00

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Queens Building LT6.2 Add this to your calendar
27 November 201915:00

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Digital Humanities LaboratoryAdd this to your calendar
24 October 201915:30

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Building:One Pearson Teaching RoomAdd this to your calendar
23 October 201917:00

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Amory B106Add this to your calendar
7 March 201915:00

Childbirth and Midwifery

Full details		Amory B219Add this to your calendar
28 February 201915:30

Sex, Sexuality & Classical Reception

Full details		Building:One Constantine LeventisTeaching RoomAdd this to your calendar
27 February 201914:00

‘Renaissance Skin’ Colloquium

Full details		Amory B105Add this to your calendar
6 February 201917:00

The Patterns of Insanity in the Royal Navy 1789-1817

Full details		Amory B105Add this to your calendar
25 January 201916:00

A Woman’s Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain

Full details		Queens Building LT4.1 Add this to your calendar
13 December 201815:00

Centre for Medical History seminar series

Full details		Forum Seminar Room 12Add this to your calendar
7 November 201815:30

Centre for Medical History and Centre for Early Modern Studies joint seminar series

Full details		Queens Building LT6.1 Add this to your calendar
1 November 201815:00

Centre for Medical History seminar series

Full details		IAIS Building/LT1Add this to your calendar
4 May 201815:00

Medical History and Humanities Seminar Series

Full details		Digital Humanities LaboratoryAdd this to your calendar
21 March 201815:00

Childbirth and Midwifery in Early Modern Britain

Full details		Queen'sAdd this to your calendar
8 February 201815:00

Biological Discourses: Science, Sexuality and the Novel around 1900

Full details		Queen'sAdd this to your calendar
26 January 201815:00

Balance, Burnout, and Exhaustion

Full details		Queen'sAdd this to your calendar
6 December 201715:00

Disfigured Faces: Modern and Early Modern

Full details		Queens BuildingAdd this to your calendar
15 November 201715:00

Global Histories of Mental Health

Full details		Reed HallAdd this to your calendar
12 October 201714:00

Scientfic Respectability and Popular Disseminations of Sex Research in Interwar German Film

Full details		Queens BuildingAdd this to your calendar
28 July 201618:00

Lost Voice Guy

Full details		EX1 1SNAdd this to your calendar
12 May 201613:00

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Building:One Marchant Syndicate Room AAdd this to your calendar
28 April 201613:00

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Building:One Marchant Syndicate Room AAdd this to your calendar
17 March 201613:00

Dr Michael Clarke (University College London)

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10 March 201612:30

Mary Robson (Durham University)

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
18 February 201612:30

Centre for Medical History Seminar Series

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
4 February 201613:00

Professor Cornelius Borck (University of Lubeck)

Full details		Byrne HouseAdd this to your calendar
25 January 201615:30

Dr Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Exeter) and Dr Matteo Valleriani (Max Plank Institute, Berlin)

Full details		Byrne HouseAdd this to your calendar
9 December 201516:00

Medical practitioners in early modern England, Ireland and Wales

Full details		Queens Building LT6.1 Add this to your calendar
3 December 201512:00

Gino D'Oca and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (Palgrave Communications)

Full details		Reed HallAdd this to your calendar
19 November 201513:00

Ina Linge (University of Cambridge)

Full details		XFI Conference Room 1Add this to your calendar
12 November 201513:00

Dr Jane Hand (University of Warwick)

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
15 October 201513:00

Dr Victoria Patton (Durham University)

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
8 October 201513:00

Dr Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln)

Full details		Northcote House Council ChamberAdd this to your calendar
12 February 201513:00

The Myth of the Chemical Imbalance: origins and consequences

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
5 February 201513:00

Emil Kraepelin and Transcultural Psychiatry

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
15 January 201513:00

An Overrated Prescription: Death and Disease on the Victorian Sea-front

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
4 December 201413:00

'Mathematica medica': Santorio Santorio and the quest for certainty in medicine. Celebrating the four hundred years of the 'Ars de statica medicina' 1614-2014)

Full details		Building:One Marchant Syndicate Room AAdd this to your calendar
20 November 201413:00

Seminar Series

Full details		Forum Seminar Room 08Add this to your calendar
6 November 201413:00

Seminar Series

Full details		Peter Chalk Centre 1.6Add this to your calendar
16 October 201413:00

Self-help for your nerves: popular understandings of stress in the twentieth century

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
22 May 201413:00

John Bowlby and attachment theory: the origins of a paradigm

Full details		Building:One Marchant Syndicate Room AAdd this to your calendar
15 May 201413:00

Medical Practice, Urban Politics and Patronage: The London ‘Commonalty’ of Physicians and Surgeons of the 1420s

Full details		Building:One Marchant Syndicate Room AAdd this to your calendar
13 February 201413:00

‘Recovering an Early Eighteenth-Century Family Scandal’

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
30 January 201413:00

‘”Nature's Office & Work': Defeating Disease in Early Modern England, 1580-1720”

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
10 January 201413:00

"Those Sweet and Benign Humours that Nature Sends Monthly": Menstruation and Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
28 November 201313:00

Tenancy, Organized Crime, and Labor Conflict in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Industry, 1907- 1936

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
7 November 201313:00

Medical practice in early modern Britain

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
24 October 201315:00

Title to be confirmed

Full details		Reed HallAdd this to your calendar
17 October 201319:30

Public Engagement: Hip Hop Psych - Demystifying mental illness with beats and lyrics

Full details		Mama StoneAdd this to your calendar
10 October 201313:00

Politeness and Pogonotomy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Full details		Amory B316Add this to your calendar
6 June 201313:00

TBC

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
23 May 201313:00

'It will not be forgotten how serious matters may become in a year of drought': Rural Public Health and the 'long drought' in Victorian Wales

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
9 May 201313:00

TBC

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
22 - 24 April 201312:00

Demons and Illness: Theory and Practice from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Full details		AmoryAdd this to your calendar
14 March 201313:00

Medicine and its markets in early modern England

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
28 February 201313:00

Edward Glover, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Homosexual Law Reform

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
14 February 201313:00

Thomas Hardy and Biology

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
31 January 201313:00

Bhutan’s Smallpox Eradication Programme: International Health and the Limits of Global Influence

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
17 January 201313:00

'A Sort of Physicians and Conjurers': Obeah and the Literature of Afro-Caribbean Resistance on the Colonial Plantation.

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
29 November 201213:00

Leprosy and Identity in Late Medieval France and England

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
15 November 201213:00

Exploring the Links Between Poverty and Learning Disabilities: comparing the 19th and 21st century English experiences

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
1 November 201213:00

Benito Pérez Galdós and his ‘Flirtation’ with Medicine

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
18 October 201213:00

The Significance of Gender to Psychiatric Treatment in the Interwar Period: The Maudsley Cases 1923-1938

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
4 October 201213:00

Disability, Rehabilitation and the Body in Georgian England: A Cultural History of the Wooden Leg

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
24 May 201213:00

Rhetoric of Pain

Full details		Amory A239ABAdd this to your calendar
10 May 201213:00

Production and Consumption of Vernacular Medical Books in Early Modern England

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
26 - 27 April 20129:00

Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality, and History

Full details		Streatham CampusAdd this to your calendar
2 - 3 April 201210:00

'The Stress of Life': Gender, Emotions and Health after the Second World War

Full details		University of ExeterAdd this to your calendar
15 March 201217:00

TBC

Full details		Amory B106Add this to your calendar
1 March 201213:00

Health and climate change

Full details		Amory B106Add this to your calendar
2 February 201213:00

Child development/preschool childcare

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
26 January 201213:00

Bone Marrow Transplantation 1945-61

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
18 January 201213:00

Magnus Hirschfeld, race and sexology

Full details		Amory B315Add this to your calendar
8 December 201113:00

TBC

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
24 November 201113:00

Medical Education

Full details		WK Norman Conference Room, PMS Building, St Lukes campusAdd this to your calendar
10 November 201113:00

The patient consumer? Patient organisations and consumerisms in Britain since the 1960's.

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
27 October 201113:00

Mental illness and returning patient care in the early National Health Service

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
13 October 201113:00

'Third class treatment for third class patients'? Reform and chronic mental illness in twentieth century British psychiatry

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
15 - 16 September 201110:00

Getting Into and Out of the Asylum and Mental Hospital: Admissions, Discharges and the Impact of Treatments on the Mentally Ill, c.1850-2000

Full details		Streatham CampusAdd this to your calendar
22 - 23 August 201110:00

Approaches to Ancient Medicine

Full details		Streatham CampusAdd this to your calendar
26 May 201113:00

TBA

Full details		Amory A128 Add this to your calendar
5 May 201113:00

The future of the social history of medicine

Full details		Amory A128 Add this to your calendar
14 April 20119:00

'From the Cradle to the Grave': Reciprocity and Exchange in the Making of Medicine and the Modern Arts

Full details		ThornleaAdd this to your calendar
6 April 201110:00

Fabricating the Body: textiles and human health in historical perspective

Full details		AmoryAdd this to your calendar
17 March 201113:00

The History of SIDS

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
3 March 201113:00

Stress, psychosomatic disease and the 1960s civil servant

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
17 February 201113:00

'Against Natural and Moral Law'?: Artificial Insemination 'Rights'(and 'Wrongs') in 1950s Scotland

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
4 February 201113:00

The History of AIDS

Full details		W K Norman Conference RoomAdd this to your calendar
20 January 201113:00

Antarctic exploration

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
9 December 201013:00

'Transnational and Transcultural Histories of Chinese Medicine: Medieval Persia and Socialist Cuba'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
25 November 201013:00

'The Sleep of Reason: Imagination, Irrationality and SleepPathology in Medieval Medicine'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
11 November 201013:00

'Forging a New Indian Materia Medica: Professional Societies and the Formalisation of European Medical Practice, 1822-1854'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
28 October 201013:00

'Negotiating Science: The Foundation and the Gamma Globulin Pilot Study, 1951'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
7 October 201013:00

'Galen and Modern Medicine'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
15 June 201015:30

'Reading and writing the book of life: linguistic metaphors in the history of genomics and biotechnologies.'

Full details		Byrne HouseAdd this to your calendar
19 May 201015:00

Female Same-Sex Desires: Conceptualizing a Disease in Competing Medical Fields in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Full details		Queen'sAdd this to your calendar
17 May 201015:00

Darwin's Progress and the Problem of Slavery

Full details		Queens Building MR1Add this to your calendar
6 May 201013:00

'Urban Nature: Rats, Stress and the Welfare State'

Full details		Amory B315Add this to your calendar
4 March 201013:00

The Uses and Abuses of the History of Hyperactivity

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
23 February 201019:00

It Must Have Been Something He Ate: Food Additives, Hyperactivity and the Feingold Diet

Full details		Exeter Community CentreAdd this to your calendar
18 February 201013:00

The pursuit of happiness: the social and scientific origins of Hans Selye's natural philosophy of life.

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
4 February 201013:00

'Physicians in the Crusades'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
21 January 201013:00

To Grow the Children in the Open Air: A history of the open air school movement in the early 20th century

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
10 December 200913:00

'Globalizing Flu: Pandemic surveillance and the making of international health'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
26 November 200913:00

To be announced

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
4 November 200917:00

Gendering Fear: A History of the Traumatic Languages of Sexual Violence

Full details		Kay BuildingAdd this to your calendar
3 November 200915:00

TBC

Full details		Byrne HouseAdd this to your calendar
2 November 200920:30

The Suicidal Animal: Science and the Nature of Self-destruction

Full details		Café Scientifique, Phoenix Arts CentreAdd this to your calendar
29 October 200913:00

'Race and the Control of Maternal Health: the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1919-1947'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
15 October 200916:00

'Where is the history of medical ethics?'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
19 March 200913:00

TBC

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
17 March 200917:00

"The changing nature of work: the stressor for the 21st Century"

Full details		Kay BuildingAdd this to your calendar
9 March 200916:00

Joint seminar with the Department of English 'Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry and Postwar American Culture'

Full details		Queen'sAdd this to your calendar
25 February 200916:00

Joint Seminar with the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe 'Puberty and the making of gender: explaining bodily changes in sex education, 1900 - 1980'

Full details		Queens Building FAdd this to your calendar
19 February 200913:00

'From Commonplace Books to Index cards: Linnaeus at Work, 1727-1777'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
5 February 200913:00

Birthing Tales by physicians, surgeons and midwives in Early Modern France

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
4 February 200916:00

Joint seminar with the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe 'Culture, Psychiatry and Koro: penis shrinking, masculinity, and culture-bound syndrome'

Full details		Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2Add this to your calendar
11 December 200813:00

'Desperate Housewives' and the Domestic Environment in Post-War Britain - Individual Perspectives.

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
27 November 200813:00

Medical Magic and the Church in Medieval England

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
13 November 200813:00

'Sadness and Dis-ease in early modern England'

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
11 November 200817:00

Who put the stress on post-traumatic stress, and what makes it work?

Full details		Kay BuildingAdd this to your calendar
30 October 200813:00

Globalizing Flu: Pandemic surveillance and the making of international health

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
16 October 200813:00

'My wife hath sent ....her laudanum': the role of lay practitioners in the health care of the Cecil family, 1550-1660

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
22 May 200813:00

Joint seminar with the Centre for War, State and Society 'Civil war, Trauma and the Psychology of Mau Mau'

Full details		Amory A128 Add this to your calendar
15 May 200813:00

'Galen on the interface of medical and psychological therapy'

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
1 May 200813:00

'The Tailor's Daughter, the Clerk's Lady and the Ploughman's Wife: Managing Difficult Delivery and the Development of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, 1844-1939'

Full details		Queens Building 1B Add this to your calendar
13 March 200813:00

'Secret Bodies: Measuring Masculinities in Early Modern France'

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
14 February 200813:00

Globalising flu: pandemic surveillance & the making of international health.

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
31 January 200813:00

The transatlantic history of total hip replacement: technologies and political economies of health

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
6 December 200713:00

Anxiety, stress & social adaptation, 1930s - 1950s: physiological testing & psychological disorders

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
22 November 200713:00

The trial of Ronald True: the place of psychiatry in a 1922 insanity trial.

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
8 November 200713:00

Re-assessing the health visitor as part of a public health team.

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
25 October 200713:00

Sacred spas? Healing springs & religion in post-Reformation England.

Full details		Queens Building DAdd this to your calendar
27 September 200713:00

Historical and contemporary perspectives - Migration and Health in Southeast Asia: The State, Less-skilled Migrant Workers and Public Health policies

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
21 June 200713:00

"The Drug that Makes Soldiers Good Sailors Will Soon Be Working for You! Antihistamines and the Culture of Performance in Cold War America"

Full details		Amory B105Add this to your calendar
17 May 200713:15

Bringing the lab to the workplace: labour conflicts and management culture at Almaden mercury mines in the early 20th century

Full details		Amory A239ABAdd this to your calendar
3 May 200713:00

On the Disease of Love: a medical view of infatuation in the medieval Islamic period.

Full details		Amory A239ABAdd this to your calendar
15 February 200713:15

Psychedelic Psychiatry: 1950s LSD experimentation

Full details		Amory A239ABAdd this to your calendar
30 November 200613:15

Chivalry, Sexuality and Menstrual Taboo, c. 1840-1880

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
21 June 200613:00

Playboys, Wolves, and Devoted Husbands: Men and Abortion in England 1861-1967

Full details		AmoryAdd this to your calendar
4 May 200613:00

Silencing the Disabled: Spina bifida and prenatal screening in Great Britain

Full details		Peter Chalk Centre 2.4Add this to your calendar
9 March 200613:00

TBC

Full details		Peter Chalk Centre 2.4Add this to your calendar
23 February 200613:00

TBC

Full details		Peter Chalk Centre 2.4Add this to your calendar
26 January 200613:00

TBC

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
6 October 200513:00

Worrying about the Water: Sprawl, Pollution and the Making of Environmentalism on Post WWII Long Island

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar
3 March 200513:00

Lampreys, lungfish & elasmobranchs: The politics of animal selection.

Full details		Amory B308Add this to your calendar
17 February 200516:00

Wastelands Seminar Series: "Zones of indistinction: Some thoughts on the bio-politics of urban space"

Full details		Streatham CourtAdd this to your calendar
20 January 200516:00

Wastelands Seminar Series: "Nature & the Subjective: Abandoning taxonomy for encounter"

Full details		Streatham CourtAdd this to your calendar
24 November 200414:00

Risk, efficacy, and attenuation in debates over smallpox vaccination in Montreal 1870-1876

Full details		Amory B219Add this to your calendar
18 November 200416:00

Wastelands Seminar Series: "The Burning Issue: Waste, incineration & public health in nineteenth & twentieth century Britain"

Full details		Streatham CourtAdd this to your calendar
4 November 200413:00

"Medical ethics in colonial Algeria"

Full details		Amory B316Add this to your calendar
21 October 200416:00

Wastelands Seminar Series: "Visions of Apocalypse & Pollution in Fin de Siécle London"

Full details		Streatham CourtAdd this to your calendar
4 March 200413:00

Medicine & feminism - who's reproducing babies?

Full details		Amory B219Add this to your calendar
12 February 200413:00

Cholera, Caricature & Criticism

Full details		Amory B219Add this to your calendar
22 January 200413:00

Medical History Lives

Full details		Amory B315Add this to your calendar
12 June 200313:15

The Act of Copulation being Ordain'd by nature as the ground of all Generation": fertility and the representation of sexual pleasure in seventeenth-century pornography

Full details		Amory A128 Add this to your calendar
5 June 200313:15

Estelle Cohen discusses women and medicine

Full details		Amory A128 Add this to your calendar
8 May 200313:15

Reinventing the asylum: a case study of a lay residential community for the severely mentally ill - [presenting data from a pilot study exploring the nature and operation of The Community of St Anthony and St Elias, South Devon]

Full details		Amory A128 Add this to your calendar
6 March 200313:15

"Caught between two cultures": The dual certificated nurses at Starcross and their problematic integration into the traditions of the institution and competing lay and medical hierarchies

Full details		AmoryAdd this to your calendar
13 February 200313:15

Ben Adam Second Begotten Son of Yahweh: His Mental and Spiritual Crisis of May 1927

Full details		AmoryAdd this to your calendar
23 January 200313:15

Smoke gets in your eyes: air pollution and the classification of respiratory diseases

Full details		Amory A115Add this to your calendar