Workshop invitation: “Managing the International Impact of Biotechnology” Date and Location: 2-3 March, University of Edinburgh This workshop, supported by the BBSRC GCRF Impact Acceleration Fund, aims to explore the challenges presented by emerging biotechnologies in the international context. How do we ensure that the impact of new biotechnologies is positive and that it addresses… Continue reading
‘To be called by the suffering’, Laura Candiotto (University of Edinburgh, Eidyn Centre) Location: 23 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh Date: 12-2pm, 1st March 2017 Drawing on Laura’s philosophical training experience with the Venice Board of Medical Practitioners, this seminar explores the calling for a nursing career, stressing the motivational role played by affectivity within the establishment of an… Continue reading
Location: University Chapel, University of Glasgow Date: 1pm, Friday 24th Feb 2017 You are warmly invited to the next WWI lunchtime lecture at 13.00 on Friday, 24 February in the University Chapel. Dr Beverly Bergman from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing will be speaking on public health in the trenches. All welcome – please circulate widely… Continue reading
On Friday 17th March 2017 at 5.00pm, Lucinda Kirby of the University of Liverpool, presently holding the post of Alan Rodger Postgraduate Visiting Researcher at the University of Glasgow, will speak on: Public doctors and the law in fourth century Egypt The event will take place in room 207, 10 The Square, University Avenue, The… Continue reading
Date: Tuesday 21 February 2017 Venue: The Kelvin Gallery, Main Building, University of Glasgow Doors Open: 6.00pm Lecture Starts: 6.30pm Event Finishes: 8.00pm Registration Page: https://www.alumni.gla.ac.uk/NetCommunity/events-and-reunions/2017-stone-lecture It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 2017 Stone Lecture on Tuesday 21st February, during which broadcaster and writer Sally Magnusson will talk about the challenge… Continue reading
You are invited to the next Centre for American Studies research seminar, to be held at 5.15pm on Wednesday 1st February 2017. Dr David Lubin (Wake Forest University) will speak on: ‘Behind the Mask: World War 1, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution’ Location: Room 203, 10 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ. All welcome!… Continue reading
The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) is pleased to announce their 2017 seminar series is due to start in February. The first seminar is scheduled for 1st February, 4-5pm in Room LH104a/b/c of the Lord Hope Building. The speaker is Paul Dimeo of the University of Stirling and the title… Continue reading
Date: 5-7pm, Friday 2nd Dec 2016 Location: Room 108, Hamish Wood Building, Glasgow Caledonian University You are warmly invited to the next CSHHH workshop, co-organised with the RSE Young Academy of Scotland’s Health and Wellbeing group, which will explore how we might use historical research and knowledge to inform current debates and policy on health inequalities in… Continue reading
Professor Jane Taylor (University of Leeds): “Newes From the Dead: An Unnatural Moment from the History of Natural Philosophy” Date: Thursday 10 Nov at 5.30pm, Location: Room 408, Gilmorehill Hall (9 University Avenue), Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow In 1650 (the year of Descartes’ death) a young woman was hanged in Oxford for infanticide. Rather remarkably, she… Continue reading
Location: Room 104, Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde Date: 4pm, Wednesday 26th of October The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare invite you to join them for Dr Stephen Mawdsley’s lecture ‘Prohibition and patent medicine: A case study of Jamaica Ginger’. This seminar, which is co-hosted by the School of Humanities and CSHHH,… Continue reading
