Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
King's College London
Seminar Series
The CHoSTM seminar series for the academic year 2022-23 commences on the 28th of September, 2022, and will be held alternate Wednesdays between 17.00-19.00 hrs. Please note that the seminars will be held at S8.08, 8th Floor, Department of History, Strand Building, King's College London. Seminars will mostly showcase the internal work of the department and will be based on pre-circulated papers. Please contact Viswanathan Venkataraman if you are interested in attending.
Seminar Programme 2022/23
Term Two
18th Jan,2023
Planning for CHoSTM's 30th year anniversary
Discussion towards finalizing plans for the 30th year anniversary of CHoSTM.
1st Feb,2023
TBC
15th Feb,2023- postponed due to strikes
There, we were all the same: Life Stories around Leprosy
Antonio will be circulating the introduction to his upcoming book on life stories around leprosy.
1st Mar, 2023- Postponed due to strikes
German WW1 Defeat and Revolution: Gerard Kite's 1921 lecture to the Swedish Synod
Catherine will be circulating a draft chapter from her ongoing PhD research on the intellectual history of the political, theological, and racial ivtersectionalities of Gerhard Kittel's antisemitism.
15th Mar, 2023
TBC
Francisca Valenzuela-Villaseca
Francisca will be circulating a draft chapter form her ongoing PhD research on telegraphy and state formation in Latin America.
29th Mar, 2023
Sanitary Infrastructures and the Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Madras, 1865-1940
Viswa will be circulating the draft of his PhD introduction towards his submission later this term.
Term One
28th Sep,2022
CHoSTM Research review
This will be an opportunity to meet new members at the centre, and discuss our ongoing research, as well as plan further regarding the centre's 30th year anniversary coming up in 2023.
12th Oct, 2022
Patchwork Engineering: Sanitary Infrastructures in Interwar Madras city
Draft will be pre-circulated.
26th Oct, 2022
TBC
9th Nov, 2022
Challenging scholarly authority in 19th century flat earth argumentation
Draft will be pre-circulated.
23rd Nov, 2022
The Making of Rural Industry: 'Bidi' Tobacco in Central Provinces, 1920-1940
Draft will be pre-circulated
5th Dec, 2022 ( Monday)
Book discussion- Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Dr. Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
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