Dates: 26 June 2025
Location(s): Radcliffe Humanities Building
Submission deadline: Tuesday 3 June
Oxford and Prague have played central roles in developing innovative pedagogical systems in astronomy, biology, chemistry, medicine, and physics. Indeed, they have been heavily involved in fostering international networks of scientific and medical knowledge since the medieval period. This workshop will focus on topics in the history of science, medicine, technology, and the environment, and the role of translations, networks, and place in shaping histories and practices of the knowledge of the natural world. It will showcase work-in-progress from postgraduate students and early career researchers at the University of Oxford and Charles University (Prague), as part of the Fell-funded TORCH International Partnership: Creative Cities.
The Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology will host postgraduate students and researchers from Charles University on 26-27 June 2025. In turn, in 2026 Charles University will host postgraduate students and researchers from the University of Oxford. Presenters at OCHSMT’s June 2026 workshop will therefore have the opportunity to visit Prague in 2026, including visits to their key historic sites of scientific and medical research and discussions on international networks of knowledge.
We invite postgraduate students and early career researchers at the University of Oxford to submit a short abstract (max. 250 words) and details of their Oxford University status to hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk by 3 June 2025. We encourage research that focuses on the history and practice of knowledge of the natural world, and attention to how scientific and medical knowledge has been shaped by particular geographic contexts and international networks, whether in the past or the present.
You can read more on this international collaboration here.
