CHSTM PhDs

📢 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

📢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

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

📢 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 #HistMed

📢 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/eR5m5f46mHJHcp… #histmed

📢 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 ) 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-sp…

📢 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 #histSTM

📢 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/rN5SL487xvg11J… Enquiries: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM #histmed

📢 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

📢 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

📢 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

🎓 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!

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

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☀️

You can find the abstract via our website: chstmphdblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/04-… DM for access!

Join us TODAY, Mar 4th, at 1-2 pm UK time via Zoom for our CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar with our very own Sally Cross, who will talk on "Transforming Medical Uncertainty: the socio-historical origins of fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)".

To read the full abstract, please visit our website: chstmphdblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/18-… #hstm #chstm #newreseach

Please join us for our next CHSTM Postgrad Seminar with speaker Brian Li from @Cambridge_Uni presenting on "Meteorological Latin: The Semantics of Respectability and Representation in Early Cloud Nomenclature, 1803-1820". Tuesday, Feb 18th, 1-2 pm UK time via Zoom, DM for access!

Full information and abstract here: chstmphdblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/04-…

We're off to a new start this semester for our CHSTM Postgrad Lunchtime Seminars! Join us this Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2025, from 1-2 pm UK time via Zoom for a talk by Deborah Cohen from @unibirmingham on "Psychoanalysis on BBC Radio 1945-1970". DM to access the Zoom link! #chstm #hstm