Seminars at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester 2009
All seminars take place at 4pm, in room 2.57 of the Simon Building. Everyone is welcome
3rd February
Rosemary Elliot, University of Glasgow.
‘Der neue Trend – no smoking, please!’: creating the non-smoker in post-war West Germany
10th February
Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
Reflections on “Objectivity” and its Critics, One Year After.
17th February
Charlotte Sleigh
‘There is Another Smell of a Nobody’: William Golding, the New People and the Other.
24th February
Mathew Grant, University of Sheffield.
Imagining Nuclear War: Discourses of Destruction and Survival in 1950s Britain.
3rd March
Peter Bowler, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Science Magazines and Serials in Early Twentieth Century Britain.
17th March
Harriet Ritvo, Visiting Simon Fellow, MIT, USA.
Counting Sheep in the English Lake District: Rare Breeds, Local Knowledge, and Environmental History.
21st April
Andy Pickering, University of Exeter.
Sketches of Another Future: Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000.
28th April
Roger Cooter, UCL.
An Anti-History of Medical Ethics: From the Enlightenment to the Era of Neuroscience.
12th May
Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, University of Manchester.
Pedigree Chums: Breeding and Feeding in the Making of the Modern Dog.
26th May
Susan Lederer, University of Wisconsin — Madison.
Doctors, Diets and Nutrition
2nd June
Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester
British Science’s ‘New Jerusalem’? Government, the Royal Society and Postwar Science