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Seminars are on Tuesdays from 5.00 to 6.30pm.

Organised by Philippa Carter, Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov.

Seminars in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and affiliates). Unless otherwise specified, they are not open to members of the public.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: David Thompson. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

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Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge

UserMeleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts

UserRóisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 17:00-18:30

The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s

UserTatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 17:00-18:30

'Cut off from lineage': castration and childlessness in Mughal South Asia

UserEmma Kalb (Universität Bonn).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Scientific perception, interpretation and prediction of the weather in late medieval England

UserMaximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Neonates and neoliberalism in contemporary British history

CANCELLED

UserEmily Baughan (University of Sheffield).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

UserCatherine Rider (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

UserHeini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

UserRebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

UserFabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserRebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

UserCamilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

UserSonia Wigh.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

UserTinne Claes (KU Leuven).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

UserKathryn Renton (UCLA).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

UserAyah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Marcus Marci Von Kronland (1595–1667) on the embryo's ensoulment?

CANCELLED

UserAnna Corrias (Faculty of Divinity).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

UserAnna Echterhölter (University of Vienna).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

UserAnna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

UserElizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Renaissance eugenics

UserMackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

UserLeah DeVun (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

UserMaud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

A good match: gender and the physiology of love in 18th-century Spain

UserElena Serrano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctors' authority in the 1960s and 1970s

UserLaura Kelly (University of Strathclyde).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 14 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

UserSusanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

UserKatherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

UserSally Sheldon (University of Kent).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain

UserCarolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

CANCELLED

UserKatherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

UserWendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

CANCELLED

UserSally Sheldon (University of Kent).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility

UserValerie Worth (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86

UserBoyd Brogan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Spreading the good news around the world: international family planning prophets in the mid-twentieth century

UserNicole Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility

UserZubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Multispecies settlement in Palestine: the problem of infertility and the wonders of urine

UserTamar Novick (MPI, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

UserLeah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Bringing together family planning and parasite control: Cold War collaborations between Japan and South Korea

UserAya Homei (University of Manchester).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine

UserAhmed Ragab (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Of women and birds: the nesting instinct in pregnancy in the 20th century

UserLisa Malich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Interracial relationships and the 'brown baby' problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain

UserLucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Malthus and the South Sea

UserAlison Bashford (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Under the covers? Commerce, condoms and consumers in Britain, 1860–1960

UserClaire Jones (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre

UserCathy McClive (Durham University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Spiritual genetics: hereditary sin and religious genealogy in early modern England

UserAlexandra Walsham (Faculty of History).

HouseSenior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 20:30-22:00

One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging 'Making Sex'

UserHelen King (Open University).

HouseRoom G21, Faculty of Classics.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 17:15-18:30

The birth of gender: transforming sex at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s

UserSandra Eder (University of Zurich).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century

UserLisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Labour pains: historical reflections from 1760 to the present

UserJoanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

Moulded like wax, modelled in clay: votive offerings, swaddling and the making of infants in Hellenistic Italy

UserEmma-Jayne Graham (Open University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England

UserMarisa Benoit (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland

UserGayle Davis (University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Health, height and intelligence in history: surveying the British population through the 20th century

CANCELLED

UserEd Ramsden (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

British 'sexology' and the uses of the past

UserKate Fisher (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Rethinking generation in the late 18th century: the concept of 'reproduction'

UserSusanne Lettow (Freie Universität Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Temporal economies in fertility research in Germany, 1900–45

UserMartina Schlünder (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood

UserMary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Race and population: fertility theories and the status of demography, 1920s–1960s

UserSandrine Bertaux (Marmara University, Istanbul).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Spermatic animalcules and concepts of life around 1800

UserFlorence Vienne (Technical University, Braunschweig).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Diagnosing child sexual abuse in early modern England

UserSarah Toulalan (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Womb with a view: transforming obstetric ultrasound into a consumer experience

UserDeborah Nicholson (University of the West of Scotland, Paisley).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context

UserConan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark

UserAnne Løkke (University of Copenhagen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys

UserSuzanne Anker (School of Visual Arts, New York).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages

UserWilliam MacLehose (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story

UserLynn Morgan (Mount Holyoke College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate

UserSolveig Jülich (Stockholm University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders and the problem of female choice

UserEvelleen Richards (University of Sydney).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives

UserSigrid Weigel (Centre for Literature Research, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States

UserJean-Paul Gaudillière (CERMES, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Nature, nurture or neither? Some Hippocratic generations of difference

UserRebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

'It's all in the blood': thoroughbred racehorse reproduction

UserRebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College, London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

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