25 Apr CONFERENCE: 'Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction' Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
29 Apr Dr Richard Noakes, University of Exeter: 'Signals from other worlds: the technological imagination in British wireless cultures, circa 1900-1940' Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
13 May Dr Erin Spinney, University of Oxford: 'Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815' Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
20 May Mikhail Nakonechnyi, University of Oxford: '“Dead souls”: mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds from GULAG, 1930-1955' Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
3 Jun Dr Christina Benninghaus, University of Oxford: 'Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, c. 1900' Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
10 Jun Dr John Waller, Michigan State University: 'How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies' Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
17 Jun Dr Neil Tarrant, University of York: 'Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the papal bull Coeli et terrae' Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
12 Apr Conference: Standards and their containers: the global history of pathogen and vector standardisation Wadham College
4 Mar Dr Mateja Kovacic, University of Oxford: : Transnational History of Clockwork Automata: Karakuri Ningyō and the Art of Artificial Life Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
4 Mar CONFERENCE: Biographies of Materials at the crossroads between the Natural Sciences and Humanities Maison Française d'Oxford
25 Feb Dr Simon Werrett, UCL: Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
20 Feb Workshop: Fires and Communities in the Early-Modern and Modern Periods Maison Française d'Oxford
18 Feb Dr Koen Vermeir, CNRS, Paris/Maison Française d'Oxford: Charlatan epistemology Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
14 Feb Workshop: Bodies at stake: Occupational and Environmental Poisons in industrial societies (late 18th-21st c.) Maison Française d’Oxford
11 Feb Professor Pietro Corsi, University of Oxford: German science, French translations, and the global market of books (1810-1850) Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
8 Feb PUBLIC LECTURE: Ruskin's Trees; Professor Fiona Stafford, Oxford Oxford University Museum of Natural History
4 Feb Professor Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick: “Whipping Boy” to “Envy of the World”: Promoting the NHS at Home and Abroad, 1948-1998
28 Jan Dr Roderick Bailey, University of Oxford: Murder in Palestine? Revisiting the causes of the Acre/Akka typhoid outbreak of 1948 Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
21 Jan Professor Judith Rainhorn, Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Maison Française d'Oxford: The history of poisons: toxic matters, scientific actors and socio-political processes, 19th-20th c. Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
14 Jan Dr Jonathan Topham, University of Leeds: Radical artisans, divine design, and evolution in Britain, 1819-36 Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
26 Nov Dr Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent): The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and mathematical practice in early modern London Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
19 Nov Professor Katherine Paugh (University of Oxford): Venereal disease in the British Empire Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX 1 2RL
12 Nov Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford): The intemperate brain: debates over habit and heredity in the 19th century Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
8 Nov Science Fictions: The triumph of the imagination and the invention of scientific creativity Professor Rob Iliffe The Inaugural Lecture of the Professor of the History of Science South School, Examination Schools
5 Nov Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University): Catholicism, reproduction, and eugenics in interwar Hungary Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
29 Oct Dr Mary Brazelton (University of Cambridge): Smallpox eradication in China and emerging narratives of global health, 1949-79
22 Oct Dr Marissa Mika (University College London): Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
15 Oct Professor Ruth Harris (University of Oxford): “Strange things may be accomplished:” Gurus between Science and Miracles Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
8 Oct Dr Lisa Mullen (University of Oxford): “The few cubic centimetres inside your skull”: electro-convulsive therapy in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
