Events

24 Jun

Shirong Guo, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University: 'By Counting Rods or By Abacus? The Practices of Chinese Mathematicians’ Computations of Multiplication and Division in the 13th-15th Century'

Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford OX1 2BE

Dr Michael Finn (Leeds University): 'Self-help and psychology'

Hilary Term 2020 Seminar Series ‘The Construction of Ageing’

McGovern Lecture on the History of Medicine

Dr Taline Garibian (University of Oxford): 'Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War'

Professor Marilyn Nicoud (University of Avignon): 'Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine?'

Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol): 'Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850'

Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University): 'Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world'

Georgina Ferry (Freelance Writer): 'No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?'

Dr Chris Low (Research Affiliate, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford): 'Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa'

Dr Andreas Winkler (University of Oxford): 'Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt'

Professor Sarah S Elkind - Fishing and the Global History of Conservation: Preliminary Comparisons of Past and Present

Keynote Lecture: Timothy James LeCain "A Post-Anthropocentric Politics"

Workshop: Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective

Dr Bénédicte Prot (University of Oxford/Swiss National Science Foundation): 'Putting medicine and literature in dialogue: the case of the French doctor Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837)'

Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University): 'Thatcherism and the Information Age: How the British Telecom Infrastructure Changed Politics'

Panel: (Inter)nationalising the antibiotic pipeline: public options for antibiotic R&D

Dr Simon Mays (Historic England): 'Humanising the past: the case of the skeletons from Stonehenge'

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Workshop: Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing

Dr Tom Ritchie, University of Kent: 'Re-Engineering History: A Playful Demonstration'

Professor Harvey Brown (University of Oxford): 'What was Einstein’s real achievement in his 1905 theory of special relativity?'

CANCELLED Dr Caitjan Gainty (King’s College London): 'Dissecting "Diegelman" (1945): Film, Medicine and the Cinematic Oeuvre of Kurt Goldstein'

Dr Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (British Academy/UCL: 'Instruments of early modern Iberian empires: towards a critical history of globalisation'

Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle & Dr Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland): 'Normality: measuring practices and devices'

Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong): 'Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery'

Environment, Climate, and Heredity: the integration of environmental humanities with the history of heredity

Symposium: Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition: The Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East

Oxford-Prague Graduate Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, 'Creative Cities: Knowledge of Nature and Networks of Science'

Shirong Guo, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University: 'By Counting Rods or By Abacus? The Practices of Chinese Mathematicians’ Computations of Multiplication and Division in the 13th-15th Century'

2019 HSMT Postgraduate Conference: ch-ch-changes in the history of science, medicine, and technology

Dr Neil Tarrant, University of York: 'Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the papal bull Coeli et terrae'

Dr John Waller, Michigan State University: 'How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies'

Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Book Launch: 'Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain'

Dr Christina Benninghaus, University of Oxford: 'Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, c. 1900'

People

Research Seminars

News

Dr Michael Finn (Leeds University): 'Self-help and psychology'

Hilary Term 2020 Seminar Series ‘The Construction of Ageing’

McGovern Lecture on the History of Medicine

Dr Taline Garibian (University of Oxford): 'Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War'

Professor Marilyn Nicoud (University of Avignon): 'Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine?'

Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol): 'Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850'

Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University): 'Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world'

Georgina Ferry (Freelance Writer): 'No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?'

Dr Chris Low (Research Affiliate, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford): 'Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa'

Dr Andreas Winkler (University of Oxford): 'Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt'

Professor Sarah S Elkind - Fishing and the Global History of Conservation: Preliminary Comparisons of Past and Present

Keynote Lecture: Timothy James LeCain "A Post-Anthropocentric Politics"

Workshop: Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective

Dr Bénédicte Prot (University of Oxford/Swiss National Science Foundation): 'Putting medicine and literature in dialogue: the case of the French doctor Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837)'

Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University): 'Thatcherism and the Information Age: How the British Telecom Infrastructure Changed Politics'

Panel: (Inter)nationalising the antibiotic pipeline: public options for antibiotic R&D

Dr Simon Mays (Historic England): 'Humanising the past: the case of the skeletons from Stonehenge'

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Workshop: Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing

Dr Tom Ritchie, University of Kent: 'Re-Engineering History: A Playful Demonstration'

Professor Harvey Brown (University of Oxford): 'What was Einstein’s real achievement in his 1905 theory of special relativity?'

**CANCELLED** Dr Caitjan Gainty (King’s College London): 'Dissecting "Diegelman" (1945): Film, Medicine and the Cinematic Oeuvre of Kurt Goldstein'

Dr Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (British Academy/UCL: 'Instruments of early modern Iberian empires: towards a critical history of globalisation'

Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle & Dr Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland): 'Normality: measuring practices and devices'

Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong): 'Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery'

Environment, Climate, and Heredity: the integration of environmental humanities with the history of heredity

Symposium: Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition: The Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East

Oxford-Prague Graduate Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, 'Creative Cities: Knowledge of Nature and Networks of Science'

Shirong Guo, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University: 'By Counting Rods or By Abacus? The Practices of Chinese Mathematicians’ Computations of Multiplication and Division in the 13th-15th Century'

2019 HSMT Postgraduate Conference: ch-ch-changes in the history of science, medicine, and technology

Dr Neil Tarrant, University of York: 'Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the papal bull Coeli et terrae'

Dr John Waller, Michigan State University: 'How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies'

Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Book Launch: 'Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain'

Dr Christina Benninghaus, University of Oxford: 'Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, c. 1900'

People

Research Seminars

News

CANCELLED Dr Caitjan Gainty (King’s College London): 'Dissecting "Diegelman" (1945): Film, Medicine and the Cinematic Oeuvre of Kurt Goldstein'