‘Power, predation and the old boy’s club: Medical journals as communities of power, 1970-2000’, Eleanor Shaw (University of Manchester, UK) In 2021, the Journal of the American Medical Association drew widespread condemnation for releasing a podcast and a tweet that appeared to deny the existence of structural racism in the US. The fallout led to the … More CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Power, predation and the old boy’s club: Medical journals as communities of power, 1970-2000, 15th November, 1pm

The Blind Teacher Tuesday 25 October 2022, 15:30 – 17:00 What you’ll do Join Professor Chris Mounsey to find out about the life of blind teacher Nicholas Saunderson, who was a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University between 1711 and 1739. Chris will draw on his own experiences as a partially sighted Professor in Eighteenth-Century English Literature at … More Wellcome Collection Exploring Research Seminars: The Blind Teacher, 25th October, 15:30 – 17:00

‘Cheap survival and a too-expensive vaccine: Racial valuation and Hepatitis B in Africa, 1980s-90s’, Dr Noémi Tousignant, Dept of Science and Technology Studies, UCL 25 October 2022, 4pmCHSTM Seminar Room: Simon 2.57 [maps and travel]Seminars will also be streamed. URL to be announced. Keep an eye on the seminar webpage for more details. Abstract: This talk tracks the … More CHSTM Research Seminar, University of Manchester: Cheap survival and a too-expensive vaccine: Racial valuation and Hepatitis B in Africa, 1980s-90s, 25th October, 4pm

‘Physical Education in the ‘Volksuniversiteit’: Conservatism, the Gendered Body, and the Pursuit of ‘Objective Science’, 1930-1937′, Anell Daries (Stellebosch University, South Africa) This presentation traces the origins and development Physical Education at Stellenbosch University. The presentation outlines the ways in which a critical contradiction between the university’s conservative ethos and the ‘objective’ scientific approach imposed by … More CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Physical Education in the ‘Volksuniversiteit’: Conservatism, the Gendered Body, and the Pursuit of ‘Objective Science’, 1930-1937, 25th October, 1pm

‘Following Photographs: The entangled histories of medical education and clinical photography in Cape Town, South Africa’, Michaela Clark (University of Manchester, UK) In the 20th century, clinical photographs were produced with various aims in mind. As visual records of symptomatic patients, they served to supplement patient records, they were used as a teaching aid, and they were … More CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Following Photographs: The entangled histories of medical education and clinical photography in Cape Town, South Africa, 18th October, 1pm

All are invited to join the next meeting of the monthly History of Knowledge Seminar Series. Alex Csiszar (Harvard) ‘Measuring Knowledge and Measuring Discrimination: Entangled Histories’  > Thursday 13 October 2022, 15:30-17:00 (CEST) > Online (Microsoft Teams) > No registration is needed. Please click here to attend the meeting Abstract This talk will trace the entangled history of attempts to … More History of Knowledge Seminar Series: ‘Measuring Knowledge and Measuring Discrimination: Entangled Histories’, 13th October, 15:30