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Feb 11
📢 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:krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM
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Jun 4
📢 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 krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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May 28
📢 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)
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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May 13
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🗓️ Flavio Rossi (Université de Lausanne) “Articulating Asian religious practices: three epistemic trading zones in Switzerland (1900-1950).”
Tue 19 May, 1–2 pm (UK)
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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May 6
📢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
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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Apr 14
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🗓️ 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)
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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Mar 18
📢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)
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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Mar 9
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
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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Feb 26
📢 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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Feb 23
📢 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:
forms.gle/eR5m5f46mHJHcpeG9
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2 Dec 2025
📢 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 sotirios.mikros@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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27 Nov 2025
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: events.humanitix.com/can-phi…
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18 Nov 2025
📢 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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10 Nov 2025
📢 Call for Presentations! CHSTM Postgraduate Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) invites PhD students to share their research in HSTM. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 Apply here👉 forms.gle/rN5SL487xvg11JqV7 Enquiries: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM #histmed
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10 Nov 2025
📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham) — “The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970” 🕐 Tue 11 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistMed
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15 Oct 2025
📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26! Allegra Hahn (University of Manchester) — “Philosophical Therapeutics: The ‘Doctor–Patient’ Relationship in Seneca’s Dialogues” Tue 21 Oct, 1–2pm Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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14 Oct 2025
📢 Join us this autumn 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:krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM
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9 Oct 2025
🎓 One of our CHSTM PhDs, @LI_Xinyue_, will give her talk “Bringing the Past to the Future: Discovery of Folk Weather Knowledge in Republican China”
📍 Manchester China Institute
🗓️ 9 Oct 2025 | 🕧 12:30–2:00 pm
Everyone is welcome!
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11 Jun 2025
Thanks to everyone who made this year's CHSTM Postgrad Seminars happen - from organizers to speakers and to our involved participants! Each seminar was a great way of exploring new research avenues in #hstm and we hope to do it all again soon! Until then, enjoy the summer break☀️
10 Jun 2025
Wrapped up our centre’s PGR lunch seminar series @chstmphds @MancHSTM for the semester today🎉🎉 I had a wonderful time co-hosting it with my brilliant colleague Daniela Dandes and meeting so many friends. Grateful for the opportunity to learn so much over the past two years.
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