Category: Seminar

HSTM Seminar Series: 3rd May 2023

May 3, 2023

Speaker: Dr Ida Milne, Carlow College ‘Informing COVID: practical global applications of history during the pandemic’ Place: Online Date and time: 3rd May 2023, 15.00-16.00 hrs (GMT) To register please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/history-of-science-technology-and-medicine-seminar-3-may-2023-tickets-513135180137 Abstract: When the Covid-19 pandemic began to emerge in early 2020, people began seeking answers to its possible trajectory and societal impact, as well as … More HSTM Seminar Series: 3rd May 2023

CHOMI Seminar Series – ‘Mad dogs and Cavanmen: The politics of treating hydrophobia in late-nineteenth-century Ireland’, 30th March at 4pm

March 28, 2023

Please join us on March 30th at 4:00 pm for the next event in our Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) Spring seminar series: ‘Mad dogs and Cavanmen: The politics of treating hydrophobia in late-nineteenth-century Ireland’ Susannah Riordan (University College Dublin)  In 1885 Louis Pasteur began inoculating people who had been bitten by … More CHOMI Seminar Series – ‘Mad dogs and Cavanmen: The politics of treating hydrophobia in late-nineteenth-century Ireland’, 30th March at 4pm

CHSTM Postgrad Seminar- Tues 28 March – 1-2pm (UK time)

March 27, 2023

Please join us Tuesday 28 March 1-2pm (UK time) on Zoom for the next CHSTM Postgrad Seminar and the last of our spring seminars before the Easter Break.    Presenting is Mirza Alas Portillo of the University College Dublin giving a talk entitled: ‘How the pipeline ran dry: towards a critical historiography of the antibiotic pipeline (1970-2020)’. The world … More CHSTM Postgrad Seminar- Tues 28 March – 1-2pm (UK time)

Online Seminar: Rachel Dishington, ‘In the office… in the field… and at College’: The Geographies of Engineering Training in Nineteenth Century Scotland, Wednesday 29 March, 11am

March 26, 2023

The next University of Aberdeen, Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHPSTM) will take place next Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11am, via Teams. As always, all are welcome. ‘In the office… in the field… and at College’: The Geographies of Engineering Training in Nineteenth Century Scotland Rachel Dishington (University of Nottingham) … More Online Seminar: Rachel Dishington, ‘In the office… in the field… and at College’: The Geographies of Engineering Training in Nineteenth Century Scotland, Wednesday 29 March, 11am

HSTM Seminar Series: 5th April 2023

March 26, 2023

Speaker: Dr Juliana Adelman, Dublin City University, ‘Seagulls & the city: from protected to pariah’ Place: Online Date and time: 5th April 2023, 15.00-16.00 hrs (GMT) To register please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/history-of-science-technology-and-medicine-seminar-5-april-2023-tickets-513105832357 Abstract: This paper considers changing ideas about birds and their presence in Ireland during the early 20th century with a focus on gulls. Gulls were protected … More HSTM Seminar Series: 5th April 2023

Free Online Event: Environmentalism in the Nineteenth Century, 26 April 2023

February 17, 2023

The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (https://cn-csi.com/) is delighted to host the upcoming FREE online event: Environmentalism in the Nineteenth Century. We have some wonderful speakers presenting on some fascinating topics. We hope you are able to join us. Please share across your networks. Date: 26 April 2023  The event runs from 10:45 to 17:00 (Central European Time) … More Free Online Event: Environmentalism in the Nineteenth Century, 26 April 2023

HSTM Seminar Series: 1st March 2023

February 14, 2023

Speaker: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Edward Worth Library), ‘Science in Trinity College Dublin in the seventeenth century’  Place: Online Date and time: 1st March 2023, 15.00-16.00 hrs (GMT) To register please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/history-of-science-technology-and-medicine-seminar-1-march-2023-tickets-511892964637 Abstract: This paper examines the teaching of science at Trinity College, Dublin in the seventeenth century. It focuses on three periods: from the foundation of … More HSTM Seminar Series: 1st March 2023

Cultures of Madness Seminar – Haunting, alienation & uncertain selves: White is For Witching (24 January 2023)

January 22, 2023

Haunting, alienation & uncertain selves: White is For Witching Tuesday, 24th January, 4-5pm, Zoom Register here to receive Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunting-alienation-uncertain-selves-white-is-for-witching-tickets-488738258287   Join Kelechi Anucha, Veronica Heney, and Arya Thampuran for a discussion of Helen Oyeyemi’s captivating 2009 novel White is for Witching. The novel follows Miranda Silver, a young woman who has lost her mother, and whose experiences of … More Cultures of Madness Seminar – Haunting, alienation & uncertain selves: White is For Witching (24 January 2023)

EMPHASIS seminar in the history of Early Modern Philosophy and the History of Science 2023

January 16, 2023

EMPHASIS seminar in the history of Early Modern Philosophy and the History of Science 2023  This year there will be a mixture of in-person seminars and online zoom seminars. The in-person seminars will be held (with one exception) in room G35 [Ground Floor] in the University of London Senate House building in Bloomsbury (access via Malet Street or Russell … More EMPHASIS seminar in the history of Early Modern Philosophy and the History of Science 2023

Workshop: “Time and Machines (1700-1850): Economy, Productivity, Discipline” – Neuchâtel

January 15, 2023

Announcing the program of the upcoming workshop Time and Machines (1700-1850): Economy, Productivity, Discipline, organized by Gianenrico Bernasconi and Marco Storni. The event will be held in hybrid mode; those who cannot come to Neuchâtel in person (Room R.O.12, Espace Tilo-Frey 1, CH-2000 Neuchâtel) may follow the workshop online, using the following links: Day 1:  https://unine.webex.com/unine/j.php?MTID=mf15d18f79bb6c7c142b10fda2fea1686 (Password: 8iPR3mrAFv6) Day … More Workshop: “Time and Machines (1700-1850): Economy, Productivity, Discipline” – Neuchâtel