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

• CHMD Research Seminar by Dr Andrej and Dr Ivana Petrovic (Durham University) - Enter Only with a Pure Mind: The Role of Belief in the Greek Healing Rituals, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, room F009 from 12 pm - 2pm.

 

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

• CHMD Research Seminar by Gabor Szegedi (Central European University, Budapest) - Sex Education as Part of Marriage and Anti-Venereal Diseases Policies in Hungary and Germany between 1920 and 1950, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Ebsworth Building, room D014 from 12 pm to 2 pm.
  

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

• ‘The Drug Trade in Colonial India’.  Pybus Seminar.  Dr Nandini Bhattacharya (University of Leicester).  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 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

• ‘The body in pain and tales of redemption and damnation during the wars of religion’.  Pybus Seminar.  Dr Luc Racaut (Newcastle University).  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 14 October 2011

• CHMD Research Seminar by Fabio Zampieri (Padua University, Italy) - Before the Dawn of Evolutionary Medicine: Darwinism and Medical Sciences Between 1880 and 1940, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Ebsworth Building, room D317 from 12 pm - 2 pm.
  

Wednesday 12 October 2011

• ‘“Stand Up Straight”: Posture and the Meanings Attributed to the Upright Body’.  Pybus Seminar.  Prof Sander L. Gilman (Emory University).  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 7 October 2011 - Friday 9 December

• 'The Foetus Goes Public' - Images of the Unborn from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Holliday Building (Upper Rotunda). An exhibition of the history of the public images of embryos and foetuses. The official opening of the exhibition will take place at 1.30 pm on Friday 7th October 2011. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of public lectures. Entry to both the exhibition and lectures is free. For further information please contact Rachel Simpson or Sebastian Pranghofer.
  

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

• 'Contagionism and Contagious Diseases in Medicine and Literature between 1880 and 1933' conference, Newcastle, (Contact laura.cresser@ncl.ac.uk)
  

Wednesday 8 June 2011

• ‘Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Household Recipe Books in Early Modern England’ .  Pybus Seminar.  Dr Elaine Leong (University of Cambridge).  5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews. 

Wednesday 25 May 2011

• 'The Hospital Crisis in Post-war Britain and France: Leeds and Lille, 1918-28'.  Pybus Seminar.  Prof Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield).  5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews

Wednesday 4 May 2011

• ‘Madness and the Passions in Early Modern Spain’.  Pybus Seminar.  Dr Elena Carrera (Queen Mary, University of London).  5.30 p.m. (refreshments from 5.00 p.m.), Bedson Teaching Centre, room 1.46, Newcastle University contact Dr. Jonathan Andrews  
  

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

• 'The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics' Conference, Durham University, (Contact james.kennaway@durham.ac.uk)

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

 

 

Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th July 2010

• 40 Years Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference, "Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives"

Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th July 2010

• The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment, Durham University, (Contact body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk)

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

• '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 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

• '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 5th 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 3rd 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)

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

• 'Hypnosis, Culture and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century: Sciences and Cults of the Central European Mind' 12.30pm, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room, Dr Emese Lafferton (University of Edinburgh) (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)

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

• HPSM Group PhD Workshop. 9.15am, Department of Philosophy, 48 Old Elvet, Seminar Room 010 (Contact katherine.smith@durham.ac.uk)