Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities is a new series of urgent conversations on health, medicine, and medicalized bodies triangulating three areas of practice and scholarship, each with their own lineages, disciplinary ambits, and trajectories of remembering and forgetting. Consisting of talks, workshops, readings, performances, and works-in-progress presentations, the online series intends to … More Confabulations: Winter 2022-23 Online Event Programme

‘Trees to Poles: Exploring the science behind the British Post Office’s timber policy, 1870-1914’, Megan Furr (University of Exeter, UK) TBC Registration: This Seminar will be held virtually on Zoom. Please email alice.naisbitt@manchester.ac.uk – for the Zoom link Details of seminar programme can be found here.

The next session of the History of Astronomical Sciences Seminar will take place on Tuesday 15 November 2022, from 2 to 4 pm (Paris time). We will have the pleasure to hear from: (2 pm) : Ivana Gambaro (Università degli Studi di Genova) on Jesuit astronomers and the cosmological controversies of the XVIIth Century  *Abstract*: The nature and extent of … More Seminar of the History of Astronomical Sciences (next session 15th November)

‘“The most extensive photographic collection in the world”: Seeing Health “through the eyes” of the WHO, 1948-90’, Dr Alexander Medcalf, Dept of History, University of York 22 November 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. … More CHSTM Research Seminar, University of Manchester: ‘“The most extensive photographic collection in the world”: Seeing Health “through the eyes” of the WHO, 1948-90’, 22nd November, 4pm

‘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