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
Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Trinity College Dublin)
Buying and Selling Medical Books in Early Modern Ireland
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD

Thursday 23 February
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
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
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
Dr Rosemary Wall (University of Hull)
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
Dr James McGeachie (Ulster University)
A network of enterprises and a centre of calculation: becoming Sir William Wilde
5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.