History of Science, Technology and Medicine Reading Group

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Convened by Prof. David Edgerton, this reading group has been in operation since 2018. The sessions provide a platform for postgraduates and staff to discuss both recent and past scholarly works related to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HSTM), and Science and Technology Studies (STS). It provides an opportunity to revisit canonical texts in these fields, critically assessing their scholarly contribution, influence, and relevance, both in the past, and in the present. Click here for the list of works covered in the previous sessions (2018-2021).

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This group meets on a fortnightly basis. Readings for each session will be announced two weeks in advance of every meeting. Meetings will take place in campus.  If you are an MA or a PhD student interested in participating in this reading group, please get in touch with Francisca Valenzuela.

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Former student-led initiatives

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Works in Progress

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As part of the CHoSTM annual programme, we host a PhD reading group prior to each seminar. The reading group allows PhD students to share their work in a friendly and relaxed environment and receive feedback from their peers. Work ranges from draft thesis chapters to conference papers and all that is in between. 

 

If you are a PhD student interested in sharing your work please do get in touch with the group's co-ordinator Shankar Nair.

 

A week prior to the reading group participants will be required to send their work, along with a list of questions/issues they would like the group to address during the session, to the group co-ordinator who will them distribute it to the group ahead of the session.

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Decolonising the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

 

This reading group engages with approaches and questions regarding the deconstruction of visions and definitions of studying the history of science, technology and medicine away from the perspective of the West. This group aims to explore and engage with  new and emerging work and its contribution to the diversification of perspectives in the history of science, technology and medicine.

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