Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
King's College London

Event Programme 2024/25​:
 

Term Two
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22nd January 2025, 14.00-15.30 (S 8.08)
 

Lost and New Worlds: Palaeontology and the Politics of the Deep Past, 1910-1950
 

Dr. Chris Manias

 

5th February 2025, 14.00-15.30 (S 8.08)

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Missionary Medicine with No Medical Training, 1857-1867

Phoebe McDonnell
 

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19th February 2025, 14.00-15.30 (S 8.08)

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Unimagined: Ethnic Communities and Medical Innovation in Britain  
 

Professor Roberta Bivins

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5th March 2025, 14-15.30 (S 8.08)

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Queer anatomies: Perverse desire, homosociality and the epistemology of the anatomical closet

Dr. Mike Sappol

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2nd April 2025 14-15.30 (S 8.08)

 

'Fascism Orders, Democracy Asks': Building Trust, Reconstruction and Opinion Research in 
Postwar Czechoslovakia, 1945-51
 

Dr. Alexander Langstaff

 

Term One

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2nd October, 2024, 14.00-15.30 (S 8.08)
 

Civil Resettlement: Citizenship, Mental Health & Masculinity in Repatriated British P.O.W.s
 

Dr. Gabriel Lawson

 

22nd October, 2024, 17-18.30, (K2.30)

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The Kass Biennial Lecture in the History of Medicine: The Other Disabled President

Professor Beth Linker
 

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23rd October, 2024, 11.30-13.00, (Bush House S1.02)

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Roundtable discussion: Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America  
 

Professor Beth Linker

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6th November, 2024, 14-15.30 (S 8.08)

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Blacksmiths, Poets, and Colonial Industry: Technical knowledge production in north India, 1850-1930

Dr. Amanda Lanzillo

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20th November, 2024, 12.-13.30 (S 8.08)

 

The sanitary fortress of the Alps: Public health in Switzerland from cholera and cattle plague to the Spanish Influenza
 

Dr. Séveric Yersin

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6th December, 2024, 16-17.30 (MB.1.3)

The National Childbirth Trust and the Margins of Medicine in Modern Britain

Dr. Agnes Arnold-Forster

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