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