📢 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 [email protected] 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-...

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 [email protected] 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

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...

📢 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 [email protected] 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: [email protected] #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 [email protected] for the link #HistMed

📢 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: [email protected] #HistSTM #histmed

Next week

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!

The CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series is back this semester! 🎉 Our first talk will be on Tuesday, 21 October 2025. Stay tuned for speaker details and more updates! #HistSci #HistMed #CHSTM