Les séminaires de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

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Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH at 5.00-6.30pm. All welcome!



Early Science and Medicine

Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins.

22 October
Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)
Garga's knowledge of the crow (vāyasavidyā) and the beginnings of South Asian ornithology

12 November
Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Würzburg)
Degree and dosage: rationalising therapy in the Long Renaissance (1300–1550)

19 November
Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England

3 December
Lobsang Yongdan (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Smallpox inoculation in Tibet


History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Organised by Salim Al-Gailani, Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

15 October
Somak Biswas (University of Cambridge)
AIDS and the Naz Project: British Asian AIDS activism in the nineties

29 October
Anna Toropova (University of Warwick)
Early Soviet cinema, trauma and the psychoneuroses of revolution

26 November
Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester)
Swinging into crip time: teenage limb loss and art making in 1960s London


Generation to Reproduction

Organised by Salim Al-Gailani, Philippa Carter, Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

5 November
Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield)
Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history