Events
This page lists events across the University of Warwick which relate to the history of science and technology:
Spring Term 2023
Wed 25 Jan '23
GHCC Reading Group: Jonathan E. Robbins, Oil Palm: A Global History (2021)
Wed 01 Feb '23
History Research Seminar: David Arnold (Warwick), Photography and Technology in British India
Wed 08 Feb '23
History Research Seminar: Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), The Dying 'Medusa': Caste and Cross-Cultural Medical Conversations on Alcohol 1850-1940
Wed 22 Feb '23
GHCC Seminar: Max Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam), African Environmental History
Autumn Term 2022
Thurs 8 Sept '22
External Talk: Roberta Bivins, 'DNA profiling and the risks of certainty', (YouTube Livestream)
Weds 9 Oct '22
History Research Seminar: Samia Khatun (SOAS), 'What is Nur? Rethinking Histories of Cotton in Bengal'
Weds 26 Oct '22
GHCC Reading Group: Dilip M. Menon, Changing Theory: Concepts from the South
Fri 4 Nov '22
Workshop: Premodern Fakes and Forgeries
Thurs 1 Dec '22
Workshop: 'Medical Testing, Past and Present'
Spring Term 2022
Weds 2 March '22
GHCC Seminar: Decolonising Global Health: The View from the Indian Ocean World
Thurs 5 May '22
GHCC book launch: James Poskett, Horizons: A Global History of Science
Wed 8 June '22
Prof. John Tresch (Warburg Institute), "Hermetic Instruments and the Depiction of Early Modern Nature," as part of a seminar series run by the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.
Thurs 9 and Fri 10 June '22
GHCC Conference: The History of Science and the 'Big Picture'
Autumn Term 2021
Weds 13 Oct '21
History Research Seminar: Erica Charters (Oxford), "How Epidemics End"
Wed 27 Oct '21
GHCC Warwick-JNU exchange: Cheri Kuncheria (JNU), "Cultivating Tobacco: Agricultural Science and Mendelianism in India"
Weds 17 Nov '21
History Research Seminar: Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard), "Narratives of Erasure: Mexico, India, and the Stories to End World Hunger"
Spring Term 2021
Tue 27 Apr '21
GHCC Reading Group: David Arnold, Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition (2021)
Mon 07 June '21
External talk: Michael Bycroft, "Which Stones are Precious? Art and Science in the History of Gem Appraisal," at the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, University of Durham (more details to come)
Autumn Term 2020
Tues 20 Oct '20
GHCC Reading Group: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence
Thu 3 Dec '20
Habitability webinar: Matthias Determann (Qatar), "Islam and the Imagination of Life beyond Earth"
Spring Term 2020
Wed 8 Jan '20
GHCC Reading Group: Warsh, American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700 (2018)
Wed 29 Jan '20
GHCC Reading Group: Voyles, Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (2015)
GHCC Workshop: Science, Technology, and Environment
Fri 6 Mar '20
EMECC Workshop: 'How Can you Tell? Judgment in Early Modern Europe'
Tue 26 May '20
Autumn Term 2019
Sat 5 Oct '19
Tues 15 Oct '19
Wed 30 Oct '19
Fri 15 Nov '19
GHCC Annual Conference: Race in Global History
Wed 27 Nov '19
CHM Seminar: Sophie Mann, 'Double Nature, Double Care and the Ensouled Human Body'
Sat 7 Dec '19
British Society for the History of Mathematics Christmas Meeting
Summer Term 2019
Wed 8 May '19
Global Reading Group: Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Fri 17 and Sat 18 May '19
Fri 7 June '19
IAS: Error in the Age of Thomas Browne Conference
Thu 15 to Sat 17 June '19
LabCut's University of Warwick Film Workshop
Global History and Culture Centre Workshop: Empires and Natural Resources
Spring Term 2019
Wed 6 Mar '19
Global Seminar: Samir Boumediene, 'Questionnaires and the History of Knowledge in the Early Modern'
Wed 21 Apr '19
Wed 9 May '18
IAS Visiting Fellow: Prof. Lawrence Principe Public Lecture 'Alchemy at the Cutting-Edge'
Tue 8 May '18
IAS Visiting Fellow: Prof. Lawrence Principe Alchemy Masterclass