CHSTM PhDs

PhD students at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (University of Manchester) @Manchstm. Views our own, RT/fave ≠ endorsement. #HSTM

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Join us this autumn for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2026/2027! Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, contact:[email protected] #HistSTM

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If you would like to join this talk on Zoom, please email Krittapak Ngamvaseenont ([email protected]) or Sotiris Mikros ([email protected])

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📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 26/27! | Chiara Lacroix (European University Institute) “Making the Body Malleable: Plastic Surgery, Fitness, Fashion, and Body Modification in France and Italy, 1890s–1930s” Tue 27 Oct, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom #HistSTM #HistMed

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If you would like to join this talk on Zoom, please email Krittapak Ngamvaseenont ([email protected]) or Sotiris Mikros ([email protected])

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📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 26/27! 📷 Maria Bovolon (Scuola Superiore Meridionale) “Jewish Medical Emigrés Fleeing Italy: Resettlement and Scientific Change after 1938” Tue 27 Oct, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom #HistSTM #HistMed

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If you would like to join this talk on Zoom, please email Krittapak Ngamvaseenont ([email protected]) or
Sotiris Mikros ([email protected])

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📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 26/27!
🗓️ Carmen Cao (University of Cambridge) “'The Fault Lay Entirely with the Shanghan 傷寒 Medication'?:Li Gao's Theory of Neishang 內傷 in the Siege of Daliang, 1232–1233”
Tue 13 Oct, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
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📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Megan Bridgeland (University of Manchester) “Teaching, Tinkering and Toys: Crafting a New Culture of Neurosurgical Education, c. 1930–50”
Tue 9 June, 1–2 pm (UK)
Email [email protected] for the link

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📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Xinyue Li (University of Manchester) “More than Superstition: Rethinking Rainmaking as Drought Relief in an "Age of Science””
Tue 2 June, 1–2 pm (UK)
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📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Flavio Rossi (Université de Lausanne) “Articulating Asian religious practices: three epistemic trading zones in Switzerland (1900-1950).”
Tue 19 May, 1–2 pm (UK)
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📢Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26!
Dyuti Gupta (University of Manchester) “'Sister Morphine': Care, Pain, and Painkilling in First World War Nursing Narratives”
Tue 12 May, 1–2 pm (UK) ·Zoom
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📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Fu Ge Yang (University of Cambridge)
“Is it fraud? Jingshen healing and the psychiatric trade in 1930s Beijing”
Tue 21 April, 1–2 pm (UK)
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📢Join us for the CHSTM PG Seminar Series!
Swapnil Chaudhary (IISER Mohali) — “Hindu Ayurveda, Medical Communalism and Body: Ayurvedic Revival Movement in United Provinces (1900-1925)”
Tue 24 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK)
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Join us for PG Seminar Series 25/26!
Sara Bassanelli (Politecnico di Torino) “Scientific Standards and International Cooperation in the Interwar Period: The Case of Fundamental Electrical Units”
10 Mar, 1–2 pm
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📢 Join us for the CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Ruoyu Jia (Durham University) — “Absorption vs Outflow: Technopolitics and Medical Logics of Four Menstrual Products in Contemporary China”
🕐Tue 3 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
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📢 CHSTM PhD Workshop | History of ‘Psy’ Disciplines
12 March 2026, University of Manchester.
PhD researchers present work on psychiatry, mental health & neuroscience, with discussion on methods, sources & theory.
Places limited — register here:
https://t.co/gRR0LZQmek

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📢 Join us this spring for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026! Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, contact:[email protected] #HistSTM

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📢 Join us for the Postgraduate Seminar!
🗓️Swagatalakshmi Saha (University of Manchester) — "Jewellers and Blacksmiths as Clockmakers in Colonial India: Networks of Knowledge Transfer"
🕐Tue 9 Dec, 1–2 pm (UK)
Email [email protected] for the link
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Our CHSTM PhD Krittapak Ngamvaseenont (@ngamvaseenont ) will give his talk “Can Phi Pob Speak? Spirit Possession, Psychoanalysis, Transcultural Psychiatry, Buddhism, and Cold War Thailand” at the ANZSHM NSW Seminar. #HistSTM #histmed

Register here: https://t.co/oPxDYtNwrb

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📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️Katherine Enright (University of Cambridge) — “Capturing the ‘Rhinoceros Song’: Ethnozoology, Sound Recording and Physical Anthropology in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900”
🕐 Tue 25 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
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