29 October 2026, 5:00-6:30pm
Pickstone Lecture
Professor Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
‘A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation’
Please follow the link on the website to register for the event.
17 November 2026, 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Joseph D. Martin (Durham University)
Battery Agnotology and the Roots of the Tobacco Strategy
8 December 2026, 4:00-5:30pm
Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University)
Plastics Protests: Mobilising against Plastics in the US (1980s-present)
Lunchtime (Work in Progress) Seminars
This is a less formal weekly series of half-hour papers and work-in-progress reports. The lunchtime seminar provides valuable experience for graduate students from CHSTM and elsewhere who may be presenting for the first time. The series is organised by postgraduates within the Centre. The current convenors are Krittapak Ngamvaseenont: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk, and Sotirios Mikros: sotirios.mikros@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
13 October 2026, 1:00-2:00pm
Carmen Cao (University of Cambridge)
'The Fault Lay Entirely with the Shanghan 傷寒 Medication'?: Li Gao's Theory of Neishang 內傷 in the Siege of Daliang, 1232–1233
27 October 2026, 1:00-2:00pm
Maria Bovolon (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)
Jewish Medical Emigrés Fleeing Italy: Resettlement and Scientific Change after 1938
10 November 2026, 1:00-2:00pm
Chiara Lacroix (European University Institute)
Making the Body Malleable: Plastic Surgery, Fitness, Fashion, and Body Modification in France and Italy, 1890s–1930s.
24 November 2026, 1:00-2:00pm
Tsung Jen Hung (University of Sydney)
A Low-Brow Medicalization? Dog Meat, Snakes, and Moral Worlds in Java’s Therapeutic Landscape
Further details will be announced on Bluesky: @chstmphds.bsky.social, and via the CHSTM mailing list.







