Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
King's College London
Previous seminars
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Seminar programme 2023/24
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Term Two
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17th Jan, 2024
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Material Agency in Socio-Technical Imaginaries: The Construction of the First Three Chilean State's Hydro-Electric Plants, 1939-1943
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Jose-Soto Vejar
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31st Jan, 2024
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Community Action as Local State Formation or the Art of Reconfiguring Tradition for Low-Cost Infrastructure, 1958-1970
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14th Feb, 2024
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Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization and Camelids, 1857-67
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David Francisco de Moura Penteado
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28th Feb, 2024
TBC
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13th Mar, 2024
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Development and Non-State Actors in Modern India: Agencies, Perspectives and Experiences
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​​​Term One
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4th Oct,2023
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CHoSTM Research Review
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This is a chance for us to reconvene after the summer break, to meet new staff members and PhD students, and learn about the research of the CHoSTM community.
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18th Oct, 2023
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Anonymous Death on Display: Identification and Public Exhibition at the Morgues of Paris & New York, . 1864-1914.
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Catriona Byers
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8th Nov, 2023
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The Uneven Expansion of Steam Cotton Ginning and Pressing in the Bombay Presidency, 1860-1920
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Shankar Nair
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22nd Nov, 2023
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A Ford Product
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Dr. Caitjan Gainty
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8th Dec, 2023 (Friday)
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Profit-Making in Egypt: An Account of Maintenance Capitalism
Dr. Rana Baker
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Seminar Programme 2022/23
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​​Term Two
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18th Jan,2023
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Planning for CHoSTM's 30th year anniversary
Discussion towards finalizing plans for the 30th year anniversary of CHoSTM.
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1st Feb,2023
TBC
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15th Feb,2023- postponed due to strikes
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There, we were all the same: Life Stories around Leprosy
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Antonio will be circulating the introduction to his upcoming book on life stories around leprosy.
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1st Mar, 2023- Postponed due to strikes
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German WW1 Defeat and Revolution: Gerard Kite's 1921 lecture to the Swedish Synod
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Catherine will be circulating a draft chapter from her ongoing PhD research on the intellectual history of the political, theological, and racial ivtersectionalities of Gerhard Kittel's antisemitism.
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15th Mar, 2023
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TBC
Francisca Valenzuela-Villaseca
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Francisca will be circulating a draft chapter form her ongoing PhD research on telegraphy and state formation in Latin America.
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29th Mar, 2023
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Sanitary Infrastructures and the Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Madras, 1865-1940
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Viswa will be circulating the draft of his PhD introduction towards his submission later this term.
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​Term One
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28th Sep,2022
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CHoSTM Research review
This will be an opportunity to meet new members at the centre, and discuss our ongoing research, as well as plan further regarding the centre's 30th year anniversary coming up in 2023.
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12th Oct, 2022
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Patchwork Engineering: Sanitary Infrastructures in Interwar Madras city
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Draft will be pre-circulated.
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26th Oct, 2022
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TBC
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9th Nov, 2022
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Challenging scholarly authority in 19th century flat earth argumentation
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Draft will be pre-circulated.
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23rd Nov, 2022
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The Making of Rural Industry: 'Bidi' Tobacco in Central Provinces, 1920-1940
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Draft will be pre-circulated
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5th Dec, 2022 ( Monday)
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Book discussion- Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Dr. Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
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