History of Science, Medicine and Technology Group seminars

The History of Science, Medicine and Technology Group seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all.

Seminar description

This research group organises a seminar series about the history of science, medicine and technology. We also have a seminar series in the history of medicine, in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and you can find the on the seminar webpage.

Time and location

Please see below for details. All are welcome.

Event schedule

Semester 2, 2018/9

Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
Thurs 31 Jan	Ian Gow (Edinburgh)	‘The Scottish sinologist and missionary scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Translation and knowledge transfer in science and technology to and from 1850s China’ (with Scottish History seminar)	17:15 in room G.14, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School
Thur 14 Feb	Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London)	‘Cross-cultural transfer of medical knowledge in the medieval Mediterranean: from the Islamic world to Byzantium’	17:15 in room LG.06, David Hume Tower
Thur 14 Mar	Dora Vargha (Exeter)	'Connecting the socialist worlds: technical assistance and the Hungarian medical mission in North Korea. '	Previously 28 February. 17:15, G.01, 50 George Square
Tues 19 Mar	Stefanie Gänger (Köln)	‘The most important and usual remedy that medicine possesses: Cinchona, medicine and sociality in the Atlantic world, 1751-1820’ (with Centre for the History of Modern and Contemporary History seminar)	17:00 in room LG.09, David Hume Tower

Semester 1, 2018

Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
Thurs 11 Oct	Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh)	'The untutored mind in early modern Europe'	13.00 in room G.15, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School
Wed 24 Oct	Katherine Paugh (University of Oxford)	'Venereal disease and the history of medical knowledge in the Atlantic world'	16.00, Room G.16, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, with the Histories of Gender and Sexuality research group
Thurs 8 Nov	Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (University of Strathclyde)	'A woman's right to know: Pregnancy testing in twentieth-century Britain'	16.00, Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building, George Square, with the Histories of Gender and Sexuality research group
Tues 19 Mar	Stefanie Gänger (Universität Köln)	‘The Most Important and Usual Remedy that Medicine Possesses: Cinchona, Medicine and Sociality in the Atlantic World, 1751–1820’ Commentator: Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews) In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History	17.00 to 19.00 in LG.09, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LX