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2023
May
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CHPSTM on-line Research Seminar: Ben Marsden (University of Aberdeen)
-Details TBC
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CHPSTM on-line Research Seminar: Silvia Casini (University of Aberdeen)
-In search of a format: The strange case of the International Festival of Scientific-Didactic Film 1956-1975
April
March
January
2022
December
April
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February
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2021
December
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October
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Collected Papers: A Preliminary Account from the Rowett Research Institute
-In 1912 the North of Scotland College of Agriculture applied to the Development Commission, which was set up to administer funds voted by Parliament to benefit the rural economy, for funding to undertake research into animal nutrition.
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Filming Fly Eggs: Time-Lapse Cinematography as an Intermedial Practice
-This talk investigates time-lapse cinematography as a hybrid, intermedial practice.
June
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The Ledgers of Death: Florence Nightingale and the battle to reform army medical practice after the Crimean War
-Accounting and the concept of accountability have been around as long as human civilization and are intrinsic to it.
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Reclaiming the Unclaimed: The Medical Schools of Aberdeen and the Dissection of the Poor c.1832-1914
-There has been limited research on the workings of the 1832 Anatomy Act in Scotland which allowed the lawful, but non-consensual, supply of unclaimed corpses to be sent to the medical schools for dissection.
May
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February
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2020
December
November
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CHPSTM - Loving the monster: David Lynch's The Elephant Man as cultural history
-Ostensibly a tale about Victorian London, David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) became a modern parable of tragic ugliness and inner beauty at a time when disfigurement was being redefined as a disability, and disability was being recognized as a civil rights issue.
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'The Mecca of the Womanhood of Scottish Agriculture': the Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy and the Dissemination of Electricity in Northern Scotland, 1923-1939
-Forgotten in Scotland's educational history, the Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy was the only institute in Scotland dedicated to the domestic education of women in rural areas from the opening of the School in 1923 to the outbreak of the Second World War.
October
September
July
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'No one wishes to say you are to live on preserved meats': Canned Food and Disruptive Narratives in Nineteenth Century Food Writing
-From its industrialised beginning at the start of the nineteenth century, the preserving of foods in hermetically sealed metal canisters would go on to vastly alter global foodways and people's engagement with convenience foods.
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Fictional and Non-Fictional Representations of Men of Science and the Supernatural in the Victorian Periodical Press
-This talk will look at Alfred Russell Wallace and William Benjamin Carpenter's very public feud in the 1870s over the validity of spiritualism.
June
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2018
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2015
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2014
July
May
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"Climate Science, Evidence and Double-Counting"
-Abstract: I argue that concerns about double-counting - using the same evidence both to calibrate or tune climate models and also to confirm that the
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Deep Time and the Platypus: Geology and Literature in Nineteenth-Century France and England
A double-bill hosted by the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine in association with the School of Language and Literature. Speakers: Dr Manon Mathias, Dept. of French, University of Aberdeen 'Sand, Flaubert, Cuvier: Writing Time and Nature' and Professor Mary Orr, Dept. of French, University of Southampton 'Between Rocks...
February
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Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution', 'David Livingstone (Belfast).
-CHPSTM was loosely involved in co-hosting the Gifford Lecture Series.
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Women, Science and the Novel' group (later funded by Royal Society of Edinburgh)
February, CHPSTM was in collaboration with Hazel Hutchison (English) on ‘Women, Science and the Novel’ group (later funded by Royal Society of Edinburgh)