CERES Conversation 2019
6pm, Lecture Theatre, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill/Kings Buildings.
Visions of Inclusive Outer Space: Systems and Architectures (open seminar)
Details and free booking at https://inclusive-outer-space.eventbrite.co.uk
[Social Dimensions of Outer Space]
THURSDAY 20 JUNE
All day, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill/Kings Buildings.
Out of the Cradle: Inclusive Systems in Outer Space (workshop)
Details and free booking at https://ootc-roe-2019.eventbrite.co.uk
[Social Dimensions of Outer Space]
Date: 14 May 2020
Title: Cause for Complaint: Men’s Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Times: 6pm – 7pm
Cost: £3
Speaker: Dr Jennifer Evans, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Hertfordshire
Description:
How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? How did they feel when their bodies failed them?
Date: 9 April 2020
Title: The Truth About Vaccines
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Cost: £3
Speakers: Professor Gareth Williams, University of Bristol and Dr Heidi Larson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Description:
In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet published an article by Andrew Wakefield questioning the benefits of the MMR vaccination which was being given unquestioningly to children throughout the UK.
Date: 22 January 2020
Title: Forensic Psychiatry: From Plato to the Modern ‘Insanity’ Defence
Times: 6pm – 7pm
Cost: £3
Speaker: John Crichton, Chair of RCPsych in Scotland
Description:
In Scotland's enlightenment a bride stabs her husband on their wedding night; a nobleman kills his brother; a veteran kills his devoted wife - who then pleads mercy for him on her deathbed.
Date: 20 November 2019
Title: “Cats robbed him of his wealth, his health and his reason”: The Wild and Tranquil Geographies of Animals and Madness
Times: 6pm – 7pm
Cost: £3
Speaker: Professor Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow
Description:
Date: 17 October 2019
Title: The McCarthy Award for History of Medicine Research
Times: 5pm – 7pm
Cost: Free
Description:
Join us at the cutting-edge of history of medicine research where new ideas and discoveries collide with traditional thought and theory. At this event you’ll have the opportunity to hear our McCarthy Award finalists present their exciting pieces of research. A panel of esteemed judges will preside.
Last year’s winning presentation was on Sir Patrick Manson and his experiments on malarial mosquitos.
Date: 18 September 2019
Title: The Physician as Revolutionary: From Frantz Fanon to “Che”
Times: 6 – 7pm
Cost: £3
Speaker: Professor Abraham Verghese, Stanford University Medical School
Description:
Date: 14 August 2019
Title: Gaslight Stories: Women in White, Eccentric Heirs, Inconvenient People
Times: 6pm – 7pm
Cost: £3
Speaker: Sarah Wise, Independent Scholar
Description:
The 1800s saw a series of scandals where individuals were locked away in lunatic asylums – the victims of unscrupulous persons who wanted to be rid of a ‘difficult’ family member, spouse or friend. But who were the victims of this trade? Was a male head of household simply able to ‘put away’ an unwanted wife or disobedient daughter?