vendredi 16 octobre 2026

Séminaires de l'Université de Cambridge

History of Medicine Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2026


University of Cambridge - Department of History & Philosophy of Science


Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm in Seminar Room 1, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. All welcome!


Early Science and Medicine

Organised by Beatrice Bottomley, Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy. 

19 October (please note this seminar will be on a Monday!)
Colos, Snak, and Suhak Scytharum: making and mistaking the saiga in early modern natural history
Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (University of Warsaw)

3 November
Thumbnails, or, a microphotographic wild goose chase from medieval monasteries to digital repositories
Jack Hartnell (National Gallery, London)

24 November
The fats of life in the early modern world: matter in multispecies medicine
Holly Fletcher (University College London) 


History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Mary Brazelton, Rosanna Dent and Staffan Müller-Wille. 

13 October
Interpreting STS in the 1960s and the biological revolution: at stake the nature of Life
Robert Bud (University College London)

17 November
Making dust governable: the technology of face masks and industrial hygiene in Mao-era China
Zhang Meng (University of Manchester)

1 December
The architecture of imperial science: collecting Asia-Pacific heritage in Germany, 1870–present
Marissa Petrou (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) 


Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Salim Al-Gailani and Beatrice Bottomley. 

27 October
Christian Science and childbirth pain in the Gilded Age
Nienke Groskamp (University of Cambridge)

10 November
Polluted objects, unnatural epidemics: the rise of posthumous magic in early modern Moravia
Ádám Mézes (European University Institute)

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