Seminars and Events of interest to the HSMT group
Talks:

Saturday 18 January 2025

Words and Pictures: how art makes the mind
Date: 18 January 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Jim Berryman (University of Glasgow), Louise Braddock, Lesley Chamberlain (Independent scholar), David Collins (University of Cambridge), Craig Reeves (Birkbeck College), Anna-Lisa Sander (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: confirmed to registered participants
Organisers: Niall Gildea, Louise Braddock, Paul Tod
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 January 2025

A class of self-similar superprocesses as a model for adaptive introgression
Date: 20 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Félix Foutel-Rodier (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organiser: Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
Date: 20 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Treatments for ADHD in adults: what works, what doesn't, and what we still do not know
Date: 21 January 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Edoardo Ostinelli (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Panel discussion: 'Post-COP29 Debrief: Reflections on a divisive deal'
Date: 21 January 2025, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker s: Prof Sam Fankhauser (Research Director, Oxford Net Zero Initiative), Professor Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Dr Injy Johnstone (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Jodi-Ann Wang (University of Oxford), Ushika Kidd (Co-President, Oxford Climate Society), Flora Prideaux (Co-President, Oxford Climate Society)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medieval Afterlives Workshop
Date: 21 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Professor Marion Turner (English, University of Oxford), Professor Henrike Lähnemann (MML), Professor Nancy Thebaut (History of Art, Oxford), Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach (Music, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Under the Radar: NATO staff in the strategy formation process
Date: 21 January 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Leanne Iorio (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 January 2025

International partnership for health research in Africa: The Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro
Date: 22 January 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof. Halidou Tinto (Clinical Research Unit of Nanaro (CRUN))
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lisbeth Soederberg (University of Oxford, Jenner Institute)
Hosts: TBA

The effect of maternal education on child mortality, 1890 - 1910
Date: 22 January 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Helen Murphy (Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: Choosing and using software for referencing
Date: 22 January 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Introduction to online resources for historians: Show and tell
Date: 22 January 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Planetary Health Think Tank
Date: 22 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Alan Bernstein (Director of Global Health, University of Oxford), Professor Erica Charters (History, University of Oxford), Dr Venus Bivar (History, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, Level 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A scholar-practitioner’s reflections on pulse diagnostics in traditional Chinese medicine
Date: 22 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Chen Zanyu (President of FTCMP, Chief Editor of The Journal of Chinese Medicine in the UK 英国中医)
Venue: 58a Banbury Road, 58a Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Venue Details: Pauling Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Changing Character of War Seminar
Date: 22 January 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Viktorija Starych-Samuolienė (Council on Geostrategy), James Rogers (Council on Geostrategy)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 January 2025

BDI Seminar - Prediction of disease onset and progression using nationwide genetic and healthcare data
Date: 23 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Andrea Ganna (Harvard Medical School)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cataloguing the Enlightenment: legacies of classification and marginalisation
Date: 23 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Zoe Screti
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Understanding pathways of knowledge to action in conservation
Date: 23 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 January 2025

Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
Date: 24 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker : Reading and Discussion Group
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
Date: 24 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 January 2025

Selective stories: how power-law mutation rates shape supercritical branching populations. 
Date: 27 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Vianney Brouard (University of Bath)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organiser: Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Getting started in Oxford libraries
Date: 27 January 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Natasha MacMahon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
Date: 27 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Documentary Screening: Blue (1993)
Date: 27 January 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Discussion
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: 21 St Giles Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Don't go breaking my heart: unique pathways to cardiac dysfunction in psychosis and implications for clinical practice
Date: 28 January 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Toby Pillinger (Kings College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

Workshop: The James Lind Library: Illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments in health care
Date: 28 January 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 47 Banbury Road, 47 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: OCHSMT Seminar Room
Organiser: Alex Aylward (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, TORCH
Organiser: Andrew Moeller
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 January 2025

The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed
Date: 29 January 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Lina Skoglund (Princeton)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Face your FEaR: Finding, Evaluating and Referencing scientific research
Date: 29 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library), Thomas Corrick (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Can we truly understand by counting? - Hugo Duminil-Copin
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)

Losing a War of Attrition: Developing Concepts of Warfare and the Realities and Perceptions of Axis Defeat in the Mediterranean War (1940-1943)
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Richard Hammond (Brunel)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Responding to the Climate Emergency: the Impact of Colonialism and Racism
Date: 29 January 2025, 18:00 - 20:30
Speaker s: Marvin Rees, Wawa Gatheru, Paul Gardullo, Dorah Mamera, Tori Harwell, Michelle Gayle
Venue: Rhodes House, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
Organiser: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)
Host: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 January 2025

The Deuteronomic motive for religious intolerance in pre-modern Christian Europe
Date: 30 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Nathan
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Political Economy of Strategic Technology Transfer: Security, Aid, and Benefit-Sharing in an Era of AI Competition
Date: 30 January 2025, 14:45 - 15:45
Speaker : Sumaya Nur Adan (Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)

Friday 31 January 2025

Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
Date: 31 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Leigh Jenco (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 February 2025

Referencing: EndNote
Date: 3 February 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 3 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sarah Marzi (UK Dementia Research Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Phase 1 Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-026). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
Date: 3 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
Date: 3 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 February 2025

iSkills: Preparing for your literature review in the Social Sciences
Date: 4 February 2025, 10:00 - 11:45
Speaker s: Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 4 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Keeping up to date with research
Date: 4 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Morwenna Broughton (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 February 2025

Ethical questions of pregnancy management following a positive NIPT/PND result - Perspectives from England, France, Germany and the Netherlands Type of event: international workshop
Date: 5 February 2025, 9:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Claudia Wiesemann (University of Göttingen), Christop Rehman-Sutter (University of Lübeck), Valerie Seror, Inserm (University Aix-Marseille), Tamar Nov-Klaiman (University of Augsburg), Adeline Perrot (University of Oxford), Felicity Boardman (University of Warwick), Lidewij Henneman (Amsterdam UMC), Jane Fisher (Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC)), Carine Vassy (University Paris 13), Angus Clarke (University of Cardiff)
Venue: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: Professor Ruth Horn (University of Oxford), Adeline Perrot (University of Oxford)
Host: Erica Charters

The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Long-Term Evolution of Landholding Inequality in Devon
Date: 5 February 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Nick Peyton (LSE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
Date: 5 February 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 February 2025

Pietro Carnesecchi (1508-67): papal protonotary, reformer, intelligencer, martyr
Date: 6 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Susan Brigden
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Role of Internal Skills and Expertise in Public Sector Digital Transformation
Date: 6 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Aaron Maniam (BSG, Univeristy of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 February 2025

Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform
Date: 7 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Professor Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto), Dr Christopher Lyon (University of York), Prof Dominic Wilkinson
Venue: Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbe's Street OX1 1PT
Venue Details: Uehiro Oxford Institute, Suite 1 (buzzer 1)
Organiser: Binesh Hass (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
Date: 7 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Nandini Das (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 February 2025

iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 10 February 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
Date: 10 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Towards Unequal Care: Developing Sex Informed Treatments for Psychotic Disorders
Date: 11 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Bodyl Brand (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

iSkills: Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
Date: 11 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 11 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Corrick (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The development of sea power thought in the early to mid Cold War
Date: 11 February 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Andrew Livsey (Kings College London)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: RefWorks
Date: 11 February 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 February 2025

The Bretton Woods System outside the G10: Multilateralisation of trade and payments in Latin America’s Southern Cone (1947-1962)
Date: 12 February 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Uziel González-Aliaga (Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Revisiting "The Telling Touch"
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Elisabeth Hsu (ISCA, SAME, University of Oxford)
Venue: 58a Banbury Road, 58a Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Venue Details: Pauling Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Queer History Reading Group
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker : N/A
Venue Details: The Jolly Farmers Pub, 20 Paradise St, Oxford OX1 1LD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2025

Spiritual discipline in post-Reformation humanism: learning, religion and politics in the life of Johannes Caselius (1533–1613)
Date: 13 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Tomás Valle (Hamburg)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Macro- and Micro-Politics of AI Standards-Making
Date: 13 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Huw Roberts (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025

Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Date: 14 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tara Alberts (York)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 February 2025

iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
Date: 17 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
Date: 17 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Kings, lords, and housebuilders: Portuguese and Chinese debates over the status of early modern Macau
Date: 17 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Jacob Fordham (LSE)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 February 2025

iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 18 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 18 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

AI in strategic decision-making
Date: 18 February 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
Date: 18 February 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hilary Term Lecture 2025: Historical Justice under State Socialism
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 February 2025

iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 19 February 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker s: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Women and the Family Firm: Managing Financial Capital New Perspectives from Dutch department stores, 1870 – 1970
Date: 19 February 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Claudia Hacke (Utrecht)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: Zotero
Date: 19 February 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Taking the pulse between Early Modern China and Europe: The Drifting Touch
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Yijie Huang (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: 58a Banbury Road, 58a Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Venue Details: Pauling Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 February 2025

Referencing: EndNote
Date: 20 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A double observance: Michael Boym S. J. on his journeys to China (1643-1658)
Date: 20 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Gianna Pomata (John Hopkins)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Silicon Valley in Context: Technology Corporations as Political Actors
Date: 20 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Alina Utrata (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 22 February 2025

British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress meeting
Date: 22 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Keynote speaker: Norbert Schappacher (Strasbourg)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

HAPP One-Day Conference: Physical Origins from the Big Bang to Earth
Date: 22 February 2025, 10:30 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Erminia Calabrese (Cardiff University), Professor Richard McMahon (University of Cambridge), Professor John Bridges (University of Leicester), Professor Sara Russell (Natural History Museum, London), Professor Thomas Gernon (University of Southampton), Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford), After Dinner Speaker: Pat Daly (Gemmological Association of Great Britain)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 February 2025

Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
Date: 24 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Becky Martin (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Population health impact of new medicines recommended by NICE in England, 2000-2020
Date: 25 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
Date: 25 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

China's Private Security Sector at a Crossroads: From Pakistan to Myanmar.
Date: 25 February 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Alessandro Arduino (King's College London)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, TORCH
Organiser: Andrew Moeller
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

Spread the Word: Mass Media, Language and Propaganda in Fascist Italy
Date: 26 February 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2025

England’s freedom: rethinking the 1650s
Date: 27 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Braddick
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Haydn Belfield (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

What are we doing with Shakespeare? New approaches, new interpretations
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Ceola Daly, Laura Seymour, Caroline Taylor, Will Tosh, Elizabeth Sandis
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Follow-on HAPP Lecture: Origin of Life on Earth
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Mario Livio (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 March 2025

The Epigenome of brain cell types and associations with disease
Date: 3 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Alexi Nott (UK Dementia Research Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Phase 1 Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-026). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
Date: 3 March 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
Date: 3 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

The efficacy and safety of pramipexole augmentation in treatment resistant depression: Results of the PAX-D trial.
Date: 4 March 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Phil Cowen (Professor of Psychopharmacology, University of Oxford )

The Impact of AI & Emerging Technologies on Future Defence Strategy
Date: 4 March 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Robert Hercock (British Telecommunications Security Research Practice)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 March 2025

A demographic analysis of London capital markets from 1720 – 1800
Date: 5 March 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Russell Leibovitch (Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Monstrous and the Mortal Pulses: guaimai 怪脈 as recorded by Michał Boym (1612-1659)
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Hanzhi Zhang (History of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Venue: 58a Banbury Road, 58a Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Venue Details: Pauling Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 March 2025

Leibniz in Holland, November 1676: zooming in, zooming out
Date: 6 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Eric Jorink (Leiden)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: Zotero
Date: 6 March 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Ethics of AI for Intelligence
Date: 6 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford), Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025

iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 7 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 March 2025

Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
Date: 10 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 March 2025

Understanding and treating social anxiety in youth.
Date: 11 March 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Eleanor Leigh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Mina Fazel (NIHR Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford )

Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
Date: 11 March 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 March 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Brufal (Groningen)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 March 2025

Promoting the coercion of heretics in early modern Reformed Protestantism
Date: 13 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Odile Panetta
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hacktivism? Predatory Sparrow and the Ambiguities of “Ethical” Cyber Operations
Date: 13 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah Sophie-Weber (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Global religious change and patterns of ruler conversion, 1450-1850
Date: 13 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 March 2025

History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
Date: 24 March 2025, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford
Organisers: Jose Porras (Faculty of History), Andrew Moeller, Alberto Giubilini (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
Date: 24 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 March 2025

Equitable Admissions in Postgraduate Taught Courses
Date: 26 March 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Charles Greenhill (University of Oxford), Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organisers: Hubert Lam (University of Oxford), Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford), Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
Hosts: Hubert Lam (University of Oxford), Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford), Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )

Thursday 22 May 2025

iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 22 May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2022 Astor Lecture in Medical Humanities events
2022 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
2023 Black History Month events
2023 International Symposium: Newton Geneva Edition
2024 Black History Month events
24-25 March - 2-Day Conference: Alliances in the history of armed conflict, 1642-present
2-Day Conference: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History
3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
A Conflict of Allegiance? Lectures marking the Tercentenary of the death of Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724)
African Studies Centre events
Alice in Typhoidland Speaker Programme
All Souls Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Science
Ancient Medicine Seminar
Annual LGBT+ History Month Lecture
Anthropocene Histories
'Antidemocratic Politics vs. Democratising Democracy: New Political Imaginaries in the 21st Century'
ArgO-EMR Seminar
BDI seminars
Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities
Blavatnik School of Government Events
Bodleian Events
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Bodleian iSkills workshops: State Papers Online, Referencing, Open Scholarship, Literature searches
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminars and events
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
Cooling for COP26
Early Modern Intellectual History
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
Environmental History Working Group
Ethox Centre Seminars
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Globalising and Localising the Great War
Governance of AI Seminar Series
GTC Medical Anthropology Film & Discussion Group
HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics
Historians in the Public Sphere
History of Biology Reading Group
History of Mathematics Seminar
History of Science Museum Events
History of the Gendered Body
History of War Seminar Series
HoM@50
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2020 - online
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Humanities Cultural Programme
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Jenner Seminars
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020
Literature and Mental Health
Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Mansfield Public Talks
McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2023 - Conditions for Corrosion: How Are Good Healthcare Practitioners Made and Lost?
Medical Anthropology
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Climate Research Network seminars
Oxford Climate Society Online Events
Oxford Ethics and Humanities Events
Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
Oxford History of Science turns 50
Oxford Martin School Events
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Postgraduate Teaching Network (OPTN)
Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures, Seminars & Events
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University History Society
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
Population Health Seminars
Postdoc Power Hour (PoPoH)
Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
Probability seminar
Psychiatry Seminar Series
Richard Doll Seminars
'Science and the Public Sphere' Seminar
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Events
TDI Seminar Series
The Changing Character of War Centre Seminar
The Construction of Ageing
The George Institute for Global Health UK Seminars
The McGovern Lecture
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Philosophical Café
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TORCH Doctoral Network: Oxford Technology in Society Forum (OTIS)
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
TORCH Network: Writing Technologies
TORCH: Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network
Translating Illness
Translating Illness
Tropical Medicine Seminars
Uncomfortable Oxford Project
University of York Open Lectures
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
What about Exclusion?
Women’s Equality and Inequality Research Programme (WEIR)
Workshop: Histories of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment