Seminar Series, 2016-17

Seminar Series, 2016-2017

Everyone is welcome to our seminar series, normally held on Thursday evening in K114.

Please click on paper title to listen to podcasts of past papers.

Semester 2

Thursday 2 February
(opens in a new window)Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Trinity College Dublin)
Buying and Selling Medical Books in Early Modern Ireland
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD

Thursday 23 February
(opens in a new window)Dr Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)
A rocky beginning: the early WHO and the roots of socialist international health
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD

Thursday 30 March
Dr David Durnin (University College Dublin)
'It is our duty': Medical provision and the Irish experience of the First World War
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD

Thursday 20 April
(opens in a new window)Dr Michael Sappol (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study)
Anatomy's photography: objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1860–1950
5 pm, K114, School of History, UCD

 
Semester 1

Thursday 15 September
(opens in a new window)Dr Sabine Arnaud (Max Planck Institute)
Constructing aspirations for the abnormal: challenges for pedagogy at the turn of the twentieth century
5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.

Thursday 6 October
(opens in a new window)Dr Rosemary Wall (University of Hull)
(opens in a new window)The British Red Cross in 1916: Conscription, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme
5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.

Thursday 17 November
(opens in a new window)Dr James McGeachie (Ulster University)
(opens in a new window)A network of enterprises and a centre of calculation: becoming Sir William Wilde
5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.