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  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

Daniele Cozzoli Universitat Pompeu Fabra The Scientific Policy of the Italian Communist Party During the Cold War Friday, 13 January, 11:30 a.m (CET)- Institut d’Història de la Ciència (IHC) Format and link to join: Hybrid In the analysis of science policy during the Cold War emphasis has been placed in the agency of individuals (scientists and scientific policymakers) … More Seminar: The Scientific Policy of the Italian Communist Party During the Cold War, Daniele Cozzoli, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 13 January 2023, 11:30 a.m (CET)

‘Representations of Soils in the Tropics in the Twentieth Century’, Theo Tomking (University of York) Soils are the fundamental substance of agriculture, yet have been paid little attention by historians of science and empire. This seminar explores how soils in the tropics have been represented and understood in the twentieth century.   Understanding of soils in the … More CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Representations of Soils in the Tropics in the Twentieth Century, 13th December, 1pm

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is pleased to announce its Institute’s Colloquium series 2022–23: “Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War.”  The series will take place in a hybrid format (on Zoom and at our institute in Berlin-Dahlem). The colloquium series is dedicated to the rethinking of science and … More MPIWG Colloquium Series 2022–23: Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War

‘Culverting Divine Power: Drainage Systems, Water, and the Monastic Imagination, c.1350-1550 ‘, Alex Hibberts (Durham University) Why doesn’t the sea flood the earth? What holds back the waves from drowning the land? To us, these questions may seem trivial and irrelevant, but they were matters of great concern to the late medieval mind. Following patristic exegesis, embodied … More CHSTM, University of Manchester: Lunchtime Seminar: Culverting Divine Power: Drainage Systems, Water, and the Monastic Imagination, c.1350-1550, 6th December, 1pm

‘Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure: Engineering the containment of nuclear waste’, Professor Penny Harvey, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester 6 December 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: In the UK a search has … More CHSTM Research Seminar, University of Manchester: Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure: Engineering the containment of nuclear waste, 6th December, 4pm