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James Poskett (Warwick), Horizons: A Global History of Science
James Poskett's Horizons: A Global History of Science was published by Penguin on March 24, 2022. The book is "a radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative." More details are on the publisher's site.
Michael Bycroft, also a member of the Hub, wrote a review of the book.
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard), 'Narratives of Erasure: Mexico, India, and the Stories to End World Hunger'
On Wednesday 17th November 2021, Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard) spoke at the History Research Seminar on the topic of 'Narratives of Erasure: Mexico, India, and the Stories to End World Hunger'.
Cheri Kuncheria (JNU), 'Cultivating Tobacco: Agricultural Science and Mendelianism in India'
On Wednesday 27th October 2021, Dr Cheri Kuncheria (JNU) spoke at the GHCC seminar on the topic of 'Cultivating Tobacco: Agricultural Science and Mendelianism in India'.
Erica Charters (Oxford), 'How Epidemics End'
On Wednesday 13th October 2021, Dr Erica Charters (Oxford) delivered a talk on the topic of 'How Epidemics End' at the History Research Seminar.
GHCC Reading Group: Arnold, Burning the Dead
On Tues 27th April 2021, the Global History and Culture Centre Reading Group discussed David Arnold's new book, Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition (2021), with the author.
Weight and Weighing Practices in Early Modern Europe - workshop
Dr. Michael Bycroft presented at an online workshop on early modern weighing practices, as part of the project The Weight of Things, run by Dr. Cesare Pastorino and based at the Technische Universität, Berlin. Bycroft presented a paper entitled Gem Assays and the Hydrostatic Balance in Early Modern Science.
Michael Bycroft at the AD HOC seminar on the history of chemistry
AD HOC is a regular seminar on the history of chemistry supported by the Department for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Michael Bycroft discussed a chapter on Gems and the Chemical Revolution at the AD HOC seminar on March 8, 2021.
Science and Connoisseurship in the Enlightenment - seminar
The Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study holds a regular seminar known as the Enlightenment Reading Group. On Feb 11, 2021, Dr. Michael Bycroft and Alexander Wragge-Morley (University of Lancaster) presented a draft introduction to their forthcoming journal issue on Science and Connoisseurship in the Enlightenment.
Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), "Is Deep History White?" - departmental seminar
Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in History of Science and Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester. He spoke at the History Department seminar on Wednesday, Feb 3, 2021, on the topic Is Deep History White?
AHRC PhD Studentship in 'Colonial Science and Military Service' at University of Warwick
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship exploring the role of the West India Regiments in projects of circum-Atlantic colonial science, particularly exploration, botany and ethnology, in the nineteenth-century British Empire. Sitting at the interface of histories of science, empire and the military, the project also seeks to contribute to the ‘decolonisation’ of scholarly collections and academic knowledge. This is because the West India Regiments occupy a unique place in the history of British Empire in that they were a regular part of the British army but were almost entirely comprised of men of African descent.
The PhD studentship is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Science Museums and Archives Consortium Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. It will be supervised by Professor David Lambert and Dr James Poskett at the University of Warwick’s Department of History and by Dr Catherine Souch and Dr Sarah L. Evans at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG), with additional support from Kiri Ross-Jones at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The PhD will begin in October 2021.