CHSTM Research Seminars

CHSTM Research Seminars

Unless otherwise indicated, meetings will take place in the CHSTM Seminar Room, 2.57 Simon Building (see the University's maps and travel page for directions). We also stream seminars. Links will be available online before the event. Please sign up for our mailing list to receive updates and check the CHSTM Blog for details and abstracts. You can also follow us on Bluesky.

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.