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Events

The NCHM is contributing to the promotion of the public understanding of medicine and its history by means of a number of events (e.g. public lectures/debates) based on a confrontation between past and present in medical theory and practice.

In this area, the NCHM co-operates with Newcastle University’s Public Lectures
Programme “Insights”
, the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute (PEALS), and the International Centre for Life.
 

 

The Pybus Seminars, a programme of public seminars sponsored by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University and supported by the Wellcome Trust, are now available as podcasts. 
Please visit the Pybus Podcast Collection for further information.

 


 

Forthcoming Events


Friday 3 February 2012

  • CHMD Research Seminar by Ramon Reichert (University of Vienna) - 'Screening Science: Narration in US-American Sex Education Movies of the 1950s' , Durham University, Queen's Campus, from 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm, room to be confirmed.
 

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Past Events

Friday 20 January 2012

 

Wednesday 14 December 2011

  • ‘Hat On – Hat Off: History, Ethnography and the Art of Trepanation in Kisii, Kenya’.  Pybus Seminar.  Dr Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford).  5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Percy Building, room G.05, Newcastle University.  For more information, please contact Dr Samiksha Sehrawat.

Friday 2 December 2011


Friday 25 November 2011

  • Exhibition Lecture Series by Dr Sebastian Pranghofer (Durham University) - 'Personhood Before Birth? Early Modern Images of the Unborn', Durham University, Queen's Campus, Holliday Building, room A15/A16 at 12.45 pm.

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Friday 11 November 2011

  • Exhibition Lecture Series by Dr Nadja Reissland (Durham University) - 'Fetal Crying: Is the Fetal Cry Gestalt Associated with Prenatal Depression and Attachment', Durham University, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, room F009 at 10.00 am.


Friday 21 October 2011

  • Exhibition Lecture Series by Professor John McLachlan (Durham University) - 'Imaging the Embryo', Durham University, Queen's Campus, Holliday Building, room A011at 12.45 pm.


Wednesday 19 October 2011

Friday 14 October 2011

Wednesday 12 October 2011

 

Friday 7 October 2011 - Friday 9 December

Thursday 15 September 2011

  • 'Behind the Dentist - 9000 years of dental history in 40mins'.  The inaugural lecture of Dr R. Iain Macleod as President of the NE Odontological Society.  6.00pm, Medical / Dental school LT suite (lecture theatre E or F, TBC), Newcastle University.  Followed by a wine reception.  All welcome.

Thursday 25 August to Saturday 27 August 2011

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Wednesday 4 May 2011

Wednesday 9 March 2011

  • 'Medical Philanthropy in Colonial Punjab, c.1860-1920'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Samiksha Sehrawat (Newcastle University). 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Thursday 17 February to Friday 18 February 2011

Wednesday 26 January 2011

  • 'Syncopation, Sin and Pathology: American and European Discourse on Jazz as a Source of Disease?'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. James Kennaway (University of Durham). 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Tuesday 7th December 2010

  • The History of Medicine Masters Programmes' Workshop.  This biannual workshop is an opportunity for our Masters Programme's students to present an aspect of their current research to their colleagues at the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine.  For more information, please download the workshop programme (PDF:101KB) or contact Laura Cresser.

Wednesday 17th November 2010

  • 'Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry.  The Case of the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, c. 1925-1940'. Pybus Seminar. Prof. Waltraud Ernst (Oxford Brookes University). 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 3rd November 2010

 

  • 'Between Unrecognised Illness and Social Construct: Feminist Responses to Premenstrual Syndrome in 1970s and 1980s Britain'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Emma Jones (University of Manchester), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

 

Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th July 2010

Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th July 2010

Wednesday 9th June 2010

  • 'Seeking a Cure in Early Modern England: Medicine Between the Family and the Marketplace'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Friday 7th May 2010

Wednesday 5th May 2010

  • 'Taste and the Pulse in Augustan England'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Mark Jenner (University of York), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 10th March 2010

  • 'The Logistics of Vital Statistics: Death Certification, the Medical Profession and the State in Earlier Twentieth-Century Britain'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 10th March 2010

Friday 5th March 2010

Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Wednesday 17th February 2010

  • 'Abernethy vs The Lancet: The Cultural Politics of Medical Knowledge in the Age of reform'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Michael Brown (University of Manchester), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Friday 12th February 2010

Wednesday 20th January 2010

  • 'Dirt, Itch and Pox: Parish Medical Care for Children in Eighteenth-century London'. Pybus Seminar. Dr. Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes University), 5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room LG38, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 13th January 2010