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Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

MICHAELMAS TERM 2026

When to Bleed, When to Sow

When to Bleed, When to Sow, When to Pray: Almanacs and the Negotiation of Time in the Spanish Atlantic

12 October
Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Sergio Orozco-Echeverri (Universidad de Antioquia)
Tony Green (project interviewee), drawn by Peter Mahoney (project interviewee)

Medicine in Uniform: An Oral History of the Royal Army Medical Corps

19 October
Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Jonathan Krause (Oxford) & Fi Bowler (Oxford)
Hospital flag. Source: USPG M496, Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Beyond Missionary Medicine: Non-State Medical Institutions and Local Healthcare in Modern Korea, 1890-1941

26 October
Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Seulkee Nam (SOAS)
Sound Films in Schools (London: National Union of Teachers, 1931), p. 25.

Mass media, natural history and the environment in Britain, c. 1900-1945

02 November
Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Max Long (Oxford)
Psychological Clinic

Towards an Operational, Experimental Paradigm in Psychotherapy

09 November
Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Catriel Fierro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Copy of a letter from P. de Fermat to M. Mersenne

From Circles to Singularities: Communication and Mathematical Practice in Mersenne’s Network

23 November
Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Cathérine Goldstein (Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche)
Oxford Biologists in 1901, including embryologist J.W. Jenkinson (mid-row, second from right). Courtesy of the Department of Biology, University of Oxford

How Teaching at Oxford Shaped and Could Have Shaped the Future of Biology in the Early 20th-Century

30 November
Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Ștefan Bernhardt-Radu (University of Leeds)