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📅Our PhDs are presenting at #SSHM2026 : Krittapak Ngamvaseenont, “The Creation of a Mental Health Model for Developing Countries: Thailand and International Mental Health in the Cold War” Megan Bridgeland, “Teaching, Tinkering and Toys: Crafting a New Culture of Neurosurgical Education, c.1930–60”
📢 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) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM
📢 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) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM
📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Flavio Rossi (Université de Lausanne) “Articulating Asian religious practices: three epistemic trading zones in Switzerland (1900-1950).” Tue 19 May, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM
📢 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 #HistSTM
📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ 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) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM
Will be presenting some of my work on phenol disinfection, cholera policy and socio-environmental violence this Thursday at 7pm BST! Info: www.chstm.org/group/health... #frenchstudies #histmed #histsci #medhum #envhum #envhist #hstm
📢 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) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistMed
📢 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” Tue 10 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK) Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM
📢 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 Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistMed
Giving a talk for Sydney HPS next Monday! Planetary Health beyond Spaceship Earth. Featuring the music and thought of Sun Ra
📢 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/eR5m5f46mHJH... #histmed #HistSTM
A blog piece highlighting research from the Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine @manchester.ac.uk This research by Dr Meng Zhang has just been published #OpenAccess in Social History of Medicine (for full article: doi.org/10.1093/shm/...) #histmed #histSTM
Strike against mask wearing in 1930s echoed COVID-19 protests, study finds
New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot further than the COVID-19 pandemic.Dr Meng Zhang, a Wellcome Trust Research ...
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📢 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 #HistSTM
Our CHSTM PhD Krittapak Ngamvaseenont (@ngamvaseenont.bsky.social) 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-pob-...
Can Phi Pob Speak? ANZSHM NSW Seminar with Krittapak Ngamvaseenont
Get tickets on Humanitix - Can Phi Pob Speak? ANZSHM NSW Seminar with Krittapak Ngamvaseenont. Online. Monday 1st December 2025. Find event information.
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Join us for the Postgraduate Seminar! Katherine Enright (University of Cambridge) — “Capturing the ‘Rhinoceros Song’: Ethnozoology, Sound Recording and Physical Anthropology in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900” Tue25Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
New #OpenAccess volume by Huiyi Wu and Mackenzie Cooley: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" 🗺️ The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds. 🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN #HistSci #Sinology
Proofs of the Afterword by @cwaldby.bsky.social and me for the social survey in global perspective book have arrived. Edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh, @clarecorbould.bsky.social and me, published in 2026 by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page: 'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context' Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026 Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball @re-histories.bsky.social #DisHist
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
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But first it's Dr Lewis Bremner's turn, next Tuesday (hosted jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies) blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 11 November 2025
Dr Lewis Bremner The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan
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📢 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
📢 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/rN5SL487xvg1... Enquiries: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM #histmed
📢 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, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistMed
Next week
MancHSTM@manchstm.bsky.social · 10mo agoIf you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
One of our CHSTM PhDs, @xinyueli.bsky.social, 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!
