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- Knowledge in Context: Colloquium in Honour of Laurence Brockliss and Colin Jones
- Vice-Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Awards
- Disease and Medicine in East & West: Points of Difference, Points of Contact
- Wellcome Trust award for the Centre for Ethics, Innovation, Globalisation and Medicine
- HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2017: A Cabinet of Curiosities
- War, Health, and Environment in the Modern Age
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- Dr Marie Thebaud-Sorger (CNRS): Inventive practices in 18th-century Europe: the public theater of technology and the mastery of the elements of nature
- Mr Robert Hall (University of Oxford): Ibn al-Haytham (965-ca.1040; Latin: Alhazen): a Report
- Dr Aro Velmet (University of Oxford): The making of a Pastorian Empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics
- Professor Ursula Martin (University of Oxford): Ada Lovelace: an eminent Victorian in her mathematical context
- Dr Andrew Williams and Mr Fred O'Dell (Northampton General Hospital): UK premature baby care 1947-1965: the Dr Isaac 'Harry' Gosset Collection at Northampton General Hospital - a case study
- HAPP Network Summer School on History of Physics: Scientific Instruments and Environmental Physics
- The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
- Dr Atsuko Naono
- Dr Jeong-Ran Kim
- Writing History in the Anthropocene?
- Professor Alistair Sponsel (Vanderbilt University): How Darwin learned to theorize
- Professor John L. Brooke, The Astor Lecture in Global Environmental History
- Dr Lauren Kassell (University of Cambridge): The Casebooks Project
- Dr Marie Thébaud-Sorger
- Professor Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth University): Looking through the Telectroscope: the material culture of the Victorian future
- Professor Elliott West, University of Arkansas/University of Oxford: Things come together: science in the American West
- Dr Zoë Laidlaw (Royal Holloway, University of London): Scientific networks and humanitarian ends: Dr Thomas Hodgkin and the protection of aborigines in mid nineteenth-century London
- Dr Philip Beeley (University of Oxford): Euclid in the world of early modern London's practical mathematicians
- History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2018
- Resuscitation, Reanimation, and the Modern World
- Dr Taline Garibian
- Professor Simukai Chigudu
- Prof Tom Scott-Smith
- Mrs Belinda Clark
- Call for Applications - updated
- Dr Philip Beeley
- Matthew Landrus believes most of Salvator Mundi was by one of artist’s studio assistants
- Dr Christopher Hollings
- Typhoid Past and Present - Workshop report
- Professor Ursula Martin
- Dr Amanda Power
- Dr Caroline Warman
- Science Fictions: The triumph of the imagination and the invention of scientific creativity
- Dr Lisa Mullen (University of Oxford): “The few cubic centimetres inside your skull”: electro-convulsive therapy in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Professor Ruth Harris (University of Oxford): “Strange things may be accomplished:” Gurus between Science and Miracles
- Dr Marissa Mika (University College London): Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital
- Dr Mary Brazelton (University of Cambridge): Smallpox eradication in China and emerging narratives of global health, 1949-79
- Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University): Catholicism, reproduction, and eugenics in interwar Hungary
- Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford): The intemperate brain: debates over habit and heredity in the 19th century
- Professor Katherine Paugh (University of Oxford): Venereal disease in the British Empire
- Dr Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent): The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and mathematical practice in early modern London
- Professor Katherine Paugh
- Dr John Lidwell-Durnin
- Gustav Neuenschwander Prize 2018
- Dr Dmitri Levitin
- Conference: Standards and their containers: the global history of pathogen and vector standardisation
- Dr Jonathan Topham, University of Leeds: Radical artisans, divine design, and evolution in Britain, 1819-36
- 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.
- Dr Roderick Bailey, University of Oxford: Murder in Palestine? Revisiting the causes of the Acre/Akka typhoid outbreak of 1948
- Professor Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick: “Whipping Boy” to “Envy of the World”: Promoting the NHS at Home and Abroad, 1948-1998
- Professor Pietro Corsi, University of Oxford: German science, French translations, and the global market of books (1810-1850)
- Dr Koen Vermeir, CNRS, Paris/Maison Française d'Oxford: Charlatan epistemology
- Dr Simon Werrett, UCL: Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
- Dr Mateja Kovacic, University of Oxford: : Transnational History of Clockwork Automata: Karakuri Ningyō and the Art of Artificial Life
- Professor Sally Shuttleworth
- CONFERENCE: Ruskin, Science and the Environment
- PUBLIC LECTURE: Ruskin's Trees; Professor Fiona Stafford, Oxford
- Workshop: Bodies at stake: Occupational and Environmental Poisons in industrial societies (late 18th-21st c.)
- Workshop: Fires and Communities in the Early-Modern and Modern Periods
- CONFERENCE: Biographies of Materials at the crossroads between the Natural Sciences and Humanities
- Dr Richard Noakes, University of Exeter: 'Signals from other worlds: the technological imagination in British wireless cultures, circa 1900-1940'
- Dr Erin Spinney, University of Oxford: 'Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815'
- Mikhail Nakonechnyi, University of Oxford: '“Dead souls”: mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds from GULAG, 1930-1955'
- Dr John Waller, Michigan State University: 'How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies'
- Dr Neil Tarrant, University of York: 'Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the papal bull Coeli et terrae'
- CONFERENCE: 'Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction'
- Dr Christina Benninghaus, University of Oxford: 'Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, c. 1900'
- Environment, Climate, and Heredity: the integration of environmental humanities with the history of heredity
- Professor Philip Mirowski, 2019 Astor Lecture in Science and Capitalism
- Conference: The Changing Role of Consultants in Industry, 1850-2000
- Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
- Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
- Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
- Taniguchi Medal: 2018 winner Ms Manikarnika Dutta
- Science Museum Group Journal Writing Prize: 2018 winner Mr Jules Skotnes-Brown
- New Publication by Dr Shinjini Das
- Book Launch: 'Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain'
- 2019 HSMT Postgraduate Conference: ch-ch-changes in the history of science, medicine, and technology
- Dr Federica Gigante
- Study day ‘Reading the Classics of Science: historical and anthropological perspectives’
- Dr Cornelis J. (Kees-Jan) Schilt
- 2019 Visiting Astor Lectureship on Science and Capitalism
- 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'
- Symposium: Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition: The Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East
- Humanities teaching award for innovative Oxford and Empire project
- Dr Jennifer Crane
- Research Seminars
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- Professor Pietro Corsi
- Dr Cressida Jervis Read
- Dr Alice Marples
- Dr Margaret Pelling
- Anne Ploin
- 14 October: Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong): 'Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery'
- 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'
- Dr Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (British Academy/UCL: 'Instruments of early modern Iberian empires: towards a critical history of globalisation'
- **CANCELLED** Dr Caitjan Gainty (King’s College London): 'Dissecting "Diegelman" (1945): Film, Medicine and the Cinematic Oeuvre of Kurt Goldstein'
- Professor Harvey Brown (University of Oxford): 'What was Einstein’s real achievement in his 1905 theory of special relativity?'
- Dr Simon Mays (Historic England): 'Humanising the past: the case of the skeletons from Stonehenge'
- Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University): 'Thatcherism and the Information Age: How the British Telecom Infrastructure Changed Politics'
- 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)'
- Historians of Medicine in Taiwan
- New Associate Professor of the History of Science
- Dr Catherine M Jackson
- Professor Joshua Hordern
- Dr Bethan Jenkins
- Panel: (Inter)nationalising the antibiotic pipeline: public options for antibiotic R&D
- Dr Andreas Winkler
- Dr Martin Ingram
- Dr Christopher Morton
- Dr Tom Ritchie, University of Kent: 'Re-Engineering History: A Playful Demonstration'
- Visiting Scholars
- Interdisciplinary Early Modern Workshop: Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing
- Director and Committees
- Charles Webster, Founding Director of the Oxford Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
- Guest Feature
- Margaret Pelling, Associate Member
- Richard McKay, Graduate Student—MSc (2007) and DPhil (2011), Green College MCR President (2007-08)
- Lindsey Fitzharris, Graduate Student – MSc (2005) and DPhil (2009)
- Pratik Chakrabarti, Research Officer and Deputy Director, 2002-2006
- 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
- Eliza Howlett
- Professor Sarah S Elkind - Fishing and the Global History of Conservation: Preliminary Comparisons of Past and Present
- Dr Michael Finn (Leeds University): 'Self-help and psychology'
- 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?'
- Astronomical instrumentation
- No lone heroes
- Historical and anthropological reflections
- Stars, Time, and Birth
- Hilary Term 2020 Seminar Series ‘The Construction of Ageing’
- McGovern Lecture on the History of Medicine
- Medicine, Law, and the Lash
- The 2020 Katritzky Lecture
- Exhibition: Alice in Typhoidland
- Book launch: Pyrrhic progress
- Conference: The Rise of Big Science in Physics
- Book launch: The Political Life of an Epidemic
- New Publication by Dr Claas Kirchhelle
- New Publication by Professor Simukai Chigudu
- Oxford Instruments: Past, Present and Future
- Researching all aspects of the history of science, medicine, and technology on a global scale
- Dr Jo Ashbourn
- Dr Viviane Quirke
- POSTPONED CFP for Workshop: Going Places, Knowing Places
- A Material History of Medieval Medical Book
- Managing Airs and Climates
- Wolfenden's Biologists: Public Talk for LGBT History Month
- Research in Progress 2020
- Hidden Histories: Oxford's female computing pioneers
- CFP: Materials and Time: an Anthology
- Doing History Differently
- 2020 Thomas Harriot Lecture
- Professor Robert Fox
- Live Event: Invalids on the Move
- Professor Paul Slack
- Live Event: Invalids on the Move - WATCH NOW!
- COVID-19: Insights from history
- Online Round Table: Globalization and the history of epidemics in Latin America
- Dr Yusen Yu
- OCHSMT DPhil and ECR Writing Group – Summer Term 2020
- Theory in a Sailing School
- The First Egyptian Society
- William Playfair's cross-channel transfers
- History of Chemistry: Who cares?
- HSMT student volunteers
- Living with Pandemics
- Going Viral - Day 1
- Going Viral - Day 2
- Reading History Together in the Time of COVID-19
- Prize winning film
- The Contagion Cabaret
- Dr David E Dunning
- Pyrrhic Progress wins ICOHTEC 2020 Turriano Prize
- Gestures of Nature Workshop
- Greatest Physics Discoveries of the 20th Century
- Dr Javier Lezaun
- Jerome (Jerry) Ravetz
- Professor Jim Bennett
- Managing Airs and Climates - Workshop report
- OCHSMT Round-up: end of 2019-20
- Jim Bennett awarded Sarton Medal
- Special issue: History of Science and Medicine in the Context of COVID-19
- Dr Christina Benninghaus
- Dr Máté Szabó
- “The Moslems want to see everything from close by”
- Dr Georgina Montgomery
- Dr Michelle Pfeffer
- Dr Marta Arnaldi
- Dr Matthew Landrus
- Dr Netta Cohen
- Writing the rules of reason
- The science of money
- Lost in translation? **CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES**
- Milan Hašek and the discovery of immunological tolerance
- Imperial and empirical: crafting medicine in the 19th century
- Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham
- Sonic emblems & magic squares
- Seminar: Historians in the Public Sphere
- Dr Martin Robert
- Seminars and Events
- HAPP Lecture: Physics of the Impossible Revisited
- Dr Stephen Tuffnell
- The Early Modern Comet
- Dr Philipp Nothaft
- Dr Mogens Lærke
- LECTURE: Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Medeniyet University, Istanbul), 'Rings of Heaven' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
- LECTURE: Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Studies, Oxford), 'Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Oxford' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series
- LECTURE: Daniel Burt, 'Board Games and Medieval Medicine' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series
- LECTURE: Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Medeniyet University, Istanbul), 'Is ‘Science’ Always Exact?' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series
- Martin Robert's doctoral thesis awarded two prizes
- Professor Judith Rainhorn
- Professor Jacob Dahl
- Professor Zoltán Molnár
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin at the University Museum
- Vaccination Old and New Café
- The Human Population Monster
- Professor Howard Hotson
- SPECIAL EVENT: Mystery at the Museum
- Dr Jennifer Oliver
- MSc research published
- 2020 Dev Prize Winner
- Futuremakers podcast: The History of Pandemics
- Gifted Children
- An information history of modern chemistry
- Jews and climate in Palestine
- How Joseph Banks made climate move
- Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family
- Case studies on ceramics
- The case of Francesco Patrizi
- Astrological forecasting of epidemic disease
- Erica Charters in conversation with Zoltán Molnár: A History of Medicine perspective on Thomas Willis
- Space Travel Across the Decades and Beyond
- Book Launch and Discussion on 'Pandemopolitics'
- Anglo-French Seminar in the History of Philosophy of Science (AFHOPOS)
- Science and the Public Sphere I
- Dr Jon Parkin
- 2-Day Workshop: Teaching to Treat
- Dr Claas Kirchhelle
- British Society for the History of Mathematics - RiP 2021
- Experimenting the Early Modern Elements
- Workshop: Virus of Hate
- Dr Stephen Johnston
- Dr Silke Ackermann
- Food, Farming and Trade in Medieval Croatia
- Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare
- Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism
- Viruses in the making: the notion of emergence seen from the history of influenza
- Tarzan The Man Ape
- Socialist medicine: rethinking the history of global health
- Dr Alessandra Petrocchi
- HAPP Lecture 2021: Scientific Thinking Across the Centuries and the Foundations of Physics
- Oxford Seminar in the History of Chemistry
- Ancient Medicine Seminar
- Reading Group: Sociology of Science
- Science and the Public Sphere Seminar