Events
Forthcoming Events
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Previous Events
Friday 27 April 2012
- CHMD Research Seminar: From Darkness into the Light: Miners’ Nystagmus and the Workmen’s Compensation Acts (1897-1934) 12:00pm to 2:00pm , Wolfson Seminar Room (F009), Queen's Campus , Victoria Brown (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 3 February 2012
- CHMD Research Seminar: Screening Science: Narration in US-American Sex Education Movies of the 1950s 12:30pm to 2:30pm , Wolfson Seminar Room (F009), Queen's Campus, Stockton , Professor Ramon Reichert (University of Vienna) (Contact Rachel.Simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 20 January 2012
- CHMD Research Seminar: 'Enter only with a pure mind' - The role of belief in Greek healing rituals 12:00pm to 2:00pm , Queen's Campus,Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (F009) , Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic (Classics Department, Durham University) (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 2 December 2011
- CHMD Research Seminar: Marriage counselling and anti-VD struggle in Hungary between the 1920s and the 1950s 12:00pm to 2:00pm , D014 Ebsworth Building, Queen's Campus , Gabor Szegedi (Central European University, Budapest) (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 25 November 2011
- Personhood Before Birth? Early Modern Images of the Unborn 10:45am to 11:45am , Holliday Building, room A12, Queen's Campus , Dr Sebastian Pranghofer (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 11 November 2011
- Do Fetuses Show Pain? The “Pain Face” from 24-36 Weeks Gestation 10:00am to 11:00am , Wolfson Research Institute, room F009, Queen's Campus , Dr Nadja Reissland (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 21 October 2011
- Imaging the Embryo 12:45pm to 2:00pm , Holliday Building, room A11, Queen's Campus , Professor John McLachlan (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 14 October 2011
- CHMD Research Seminar: Before the Dawn of Evolutionary Medicine: Darwinism and Medical Sciences between 1880 and 1940 12:00pm to 2:00pm , D317 Ebsworth Building, Queen's Campus , Dr Fabio Zampieri (Padua University) (Contact Rachel.Simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 7 October 2011
- Exhibition: The Foetus Goes Public - Images of the Unborn from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century , Holliday Building (Upper Rotunda), Queen's Campus (Contact Rachel.Simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 6 May 2011
- CHMD Research Seminar: Dominance subverted: Animal regeneration research in W. F. R. Weldon’s critique of Mendelism 12:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (F009) , Professor Gregory Radick (University of Leeds) (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Wednesday 9 March 2011
- CANCELLED - Research Seminar: Neurological identities, neuropolicies and the adolescent 12:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (F009) , Dr Suparna Choudhury (Max Planck Society, Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Thursday 17 February 2011
- 'The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics' Conference 10:00am to 5:00pm , Hatfield College, Durham, UK , Keynote Speaker: Professor George Rousseau (Contact James.kennaway@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 11 February 2011
- CHMD Research Seminar: From germ cell to stem cell: The contested interaction of chromosomes and cytoplasm in inheritance and development in the work of Marcella and Theodor Boveri 1887-1915. 12:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Reseacrh Institute, Seminar Room (F009) , Dr Helga Satzinger (University College London) (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 28 January 2011
- CHMD Research Seminar: 'A word from man to man'. Audience specific sex hygiene education and VD prevention through films in post WWI continental Europe 12:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (F009) , Professor Christian Bonah (MD PhD, Professor for the History of Health and Life Sciences, University of Strasbourg) (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 3 December 2010
- CHMD Research Seminar: The Poetics of Bodily Transplant (Skin and Adhesion) 12:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (F009) , Paul Craddock (London Consortium) (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 15 October 2010
- CHMD Research Seminar: Selfish genes, nasty parasites and helpful stem cells - metaphors in the public perception of genetic research 12:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Semianr Room (F009) , Professor Andreas Musolff, Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia (Contact rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk)
Thursday 8 July 2010
- ‘Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives’. SSHM 2010 Conference , Durham and Newcastle Universities (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 6 July 2010
- The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment , Durham University (Contact body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk)
Thursday 13 May 2010
- Research Seminar 11:00am , Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, Room 010 , Rachel Cooper (Lancaster University) (Contact j.c.westerhoff@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 7 May 2010
- Histories of Intervention: Hormonal bodies and the (un)making of difference. 12:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room , Dr Celia Roberts (Lancaster University) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Wednesday 10 March 2010
- The Sparkling Nectar of Spas: Physicians, Clerics and Mineral Water in an 18th-century Provincial Town 5:15pm , Rosemary Cramp lecture theatre (room CLC202) in the Calman Building on the Durham University Science Site , Dr Matthew Eddy (Durham University) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 5 March 2010
- 'Arbitrary negative conclusions’? Determining psychiatric knowledge during the 1970s – the case of the Feingold diet 12:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room , Matthew Smith (University of Exeter) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Wednesday 3 March 2010
- “Take me to the river” Water Cures in the Twentieth Century 5:15pm , Rosemary Cramp lecture theatre (room CLC202) in the Calman Building on the Durham University Science Site , Dr Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 12 February 2010
- Experimentalizing Hypnosis in the 1880s-1890s. Psychiatry, Culture and Modernity 12:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room , Dr Emese Lafferton (University of Edinburgh) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Wednesday 13 January 2010
- HPSM Group PhD Workshop 9:15am , Department of Philosophy, 48 Old Elvet, Seminar Room 010 (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 8 December 2009
- HPSM Masters Programme Seminar , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room , (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 20 November 2009
- A “Scheme of Bacteriological Research”: The Anthrax Investigation Board (1905-1919) 12:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room , Jamie Stark (University of Leeds) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Thursday 5 November 2009
- Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939) Conference , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Thursday 15 October 2009
- Darwinist embryo fraud? Copying pictures and why it matters. 11:00am , Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, Room 010 , Nick Hopwood (Cambridge University) (Contact j.c.westerhoff@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 12 May 2009
- 'Early modern generation and marvellous conceptions in the anatomist Thomas Bartholin's (1616-1680) unusual observations'. Ms Signe Nipper Nielsen (Cambridge University) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 10 March 2009
- 'The Mother as Creator of her Offspring: Neoplatonic Embryology'. Dr James Wilberding (Newcastle University) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 17 February 2009
- '“She is ill! She must be!”: William M. Ord and Myxoedema'. Mr Daniel Becker (CHMD, Durham University) 5:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Wednesday 14 January 2009
- HPSM Group PhD Workshop 10:00am , Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, Seminar Room 010 (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 5 December 2008
- 'Legal Medicine in History' (Sixth CHMD Workshop) 11:30am , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 25 November 2008
- Stomach Problems in Britain c.1800-1950: A Socio-Cultural History. Ian Miller (CHSTM, University of Manchester) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact Katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 11 November 2008
- 'Handsome Doctors and the Prestige of the Medical Profession in the Italian Renaissance'. Dr Stefano Cracolici (Durham University) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 21 October 2008
- 'The Local Bases of Global Smallpox Eradication: A Review of Historical Perspectives and Policy Insights'. Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (University College London) 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 24 June 2008
- 'Experimental Transactions: Science and the Human-Animal Boundary' (Fifth CHMD Workshop) 10:00am , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact stephanie.eichberg@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 20 May 2008
- HPSM Group PhD Workshop 2008 9:30am , Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, Seminar Room 010 (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 13 May 2008
- 'Working Knowledges and the Dissection of 'science' in history', John Pickstone (CHSTM, Manchester University) 11:30am to 1:00pm , Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, Seminar Room 010 (Contact nick.zangwill@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 6 May 2008
- 'Circulating anatomies: The production and distribution of anatomical models in comparative perspective'. Dr Anna Maerker (Oxford Brookes University) 5:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 19 February 2008
- 'Habitual Pederasts, Funneling and Fissures: The Role of the Medic in Scottish Sodomy Trials, 1880 to 1930'. Mr Jeff Meek (Glasgow University) 5:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 5 February 2008
- 'Caring for Dying Patients - Physicians and Nurses in Germany in the 19th Century', Dr Karen Nolte (University of Wurzburg, Germany) 5:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 15 January 2008
- 'The Female Ear: The History of Music as a Danger for Women's Nerves', Dr James Kennaway (Stanford University) 5:00pm , Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, room 010 (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 4 December 2007
- History of Medicine Masters Programmes' Workshop 10:30am , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact l.d.sauerteig@durham.ac.uk)
Thursday 22 November 2007
- 'Through the Night: Portraying and Experiencing Breast Cancer in 1970s Britain', Elizabeth Toon (CHMD, Durham) 11:30am to 1:00pm , Durham, 48/49 Old Elvet, room 010 (Contact nick.zangwill@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 13 November 2007
- 'The Science of Self-Destruction. Animal Suicide and the Human Condition' - CHMD Research Seminar. Duncan Wilson (CHSTM, Manchester University) 5:00pm , Queen's Campus, Holliday Building, Room C 107 (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 30 October 2007
- 'How Bloodletting Became Synonymous with Recreation in the Monasteries of Medieval Europe' - CHMD Research Seminar. Mary Yearl (Yale University, USA) 5:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 9 October 2007
- 'Insider Trading: Transforming Corpses into Therapies in the Twentieth Century' - CHMD Research Seminar. Naomi Pfeffer (London Metropolitan University) 4:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact l.d.sauerteig@durham.ac.uk)
Friday 22 June 2007
- Fourth CHMD Workshop: Representations of Early Modern Anatomy and the Human Body 11:00am , Wolfson Research Institute (Contact sebastian.pranghofer@durham.ac.uk)
Monday 11 June 2007
- Experimental Physiology and Beyond: Crossing the Species Boundary in Science 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact stephanie.eichberg@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 6 March 2007
- History of Medicine Masters Programmes’ Workshop 10:00am , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room (Contact l.d.sauerteig@durham.ac.uk)
Tuesday 20 February 2007
- Smoking for Taxes: The Triumph of Fiscal Policy Over Health in Post-War West Germany 5:15pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Thursday 4 January 2007
- British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Postgraduate Conference 2007 12:30pm to 7:00pm , Department of Philosophy
Monday 11 December 2006
- The colours of life: Early photography of skin diseases 1860-1900 5:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Wednesday 5 July 2006
- Diphthera Immunisation in Germany – the unfinished agenda 5:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Wednesday 10 May 2006
- The Biomedical Construction of the Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) in the UK, France and the USA 4:00pm , Philosophy Department, 4 p.m., Common Room, 51 Old Elvet
Tuesday 7 March 2006
- History of Medicine Masters Programmes’ Workshop 10:00am , Queen’s Campus Stockton, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Tuesday 7 February 2006
- 'The Solitary Vice': Medical Anti-Masturbation Propaganda and the Adolescent Artist 5:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Thursday 26 January 2006
- Body Image and Therapeutic Choice: Evidence from Modern Japan 11 11:00am , Philosophy Department, Common Room, 51 Old Elvet
Wednesday 25 January 2006
- Telling the Story of Male Madness: The Nervous Breakdown of Victorian Labouring Men 5:15pm , Philosophy Department, Common Room, 51 Old Elvet
Wednesday 2 November 2005
- 'Allergy con amore': Psychodynamic Approaches to Asthma in the Mid-Twentieth Century 4:00pm , Philosophy Department,, Common Room, 51 Old Elvet
Monday 16 May 2005
- Clinical Science and Professional Organisation in Nineteenth-Century Newcastle 5:30pm , Queen’s Campus Stockton, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Monday 9 May 2005
- Seminar on the history of medical education. 1:00pm , Common Room, Seminar in Elvet Riverside Room 147
Saturday 16 April 2005
- International Conference: Sex Education of the Young in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural History, 10:00am to 5:00pm , Collingwood College, University of Durham
Monday 28 February 2005
- Should a doctor tell? Medical confidentiality in interwar England and Scotland 5:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Monday 24 January 2005
- Public Health and Malaria Control in Colonial Sudan, 1935-1956 5:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Monday 22 November 2004
- Visualisations of the Human Body in Anatomical Discourses in Early Modern Europe 5:30pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room
Thursday 14 October 2004
- Doctors without Patients, Cold War and a Militant Ethos for Medicine 11:00am , Philosophy Department, Common Room, 51 Old Elvet.
Thursday 26 February 2004
- Private parts and public profit: Issues of consent and benefit-sharing in DNA banking 11:00am , Philosophy Department, Common Room, 51 Old Elvet
Thursday 22 January 2004
- 'He had cured many through the art of medicine and many through word and prayer: Curing in medieval Portuguese saints' lives. 11:00am , Philosophy Department, Common Room, 51 Old Elvet
Monday 27 May 2002
- First CHMD Workshop: History of Pharmacological Research and Innovation 1:00pm , Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room