The HSTM Network Ireland Seminar Series is a monthly online presentation and discussion with current scholars in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. These are usually on the first Thursday of each month, 1-2pm (GMT/UTC), including a period for audience questions.
HSTM Seminar Series Programme – 2025
6 February 2025
Dr Elena Schaa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Title: ‘Roles of Religion in Werner Heisenberg’s Popular Science Writings’
Zoom registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/c50dGi5URtqYGUn3uH9few
6 March 2025
Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory, IADT)
Title: ‘Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’
Zoom registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dRobrIcqQoedCTNFbPNpcQ#/registration
3 April 2025
Dr Peter Hession (Glucksman Ireland House NYU)
Title: ‘Inventing the Soup Kitchen in 19th Century Ireland: Origin, Agency and Legacy’
Zoom registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lhTQrwnWTYaV9LevokUpjQ
1 May 2025 (Work-in-progress)
Speaker 1: Helen Doyle (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Maynooth University)
Title: ‘Institutions of confinement or care? The successes and failures of the Irish District Lunatic Asylum system.’
Speaker 2: tbc
Zoom registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Pj-4lUQISoaYQGYyhHSwCA
Past Seminars – 2023/24
2 November (Rescheduled for 1 February 2024)
Dr Carly Collier (UCD), ‘A Lady Sanitary Sub-Officer if active could do great good’: Dublin Corporation and the first women sanitary inspectors in Ireland’
Abstract: https://hstmnetworkireland.org/2023/10/11/hstm-webinar-series-2-nov-2023/
7 December
Dr Elizabeth Burton (UCD) and Dr Rachael Boon (Science Museum, London), ‘‘COVID-19 telecommunications collecting at the Science Museum, London’
Abstract: https://hstmnetworkireland.org/2023/11/16/hstm-network-ireland-webinar-16-nov-dr-elizabeth-burton-ucd-and-dr-rachael-boon-science-museum-london-covid-19-telecommunications-collecting-at-the-science-museum-london/
1 February
Dr Carly Collier (UCD), ‘A Lady Sanitary Sub-Officer if active could do great good’: Dublin Corporation and the first women sanitary inspectors in Ireland’
Abstract: https://hstmnetworkireland.org/2023/10/11/hstm-webinar-series-2-nov-2023/
7 March (Ph.D. work-in-progress session)
Hannah Brown (University of Ulster) ‘Polio Survivors Experiences of Treatment in Belfast, c. 1947-1982’
Rebecca Brown (University of Ulster). Title to follow.
4 April
Dr Sorcha O’Brien (IADT). Title to follow.
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