Seminar Series, 2012-13

Seminar Series, 2012-13

Semester 2

Thursday 4 April
Professor Cara Delay (College of Charleston and Fulbright Scholar at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin)
‘'Noxious Things': Illegal Abortion Cases in Twentieth-Century Ireland’
5 pm, K114, School of History & Archives, UCD.

Thursday 28 February
Professor Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa)
‘Physiognomy and the Rise of Scientific Observation c. 1500’
5 pm, K114, School of History & Archives, UCD.
*The Centre would like to thank the Israeli Embassy in Dublin for generously supporting this event.

Thursday 31 January
Dr Susan Grant (University College Dublin and University of Toronto)
‘Caring Communists?: The Development of Early Soviet Nursing, 1917-1941’
5 pm, K114, School of History & Archives, UCD.

 

Semester 1

Thursday 22 November
Professor Greta Jones (University of Ulster)
‘The Border in Irish Medicine’
5 pm, K114, School of History & Archives, UCD.

Thursday 25 October
Dr Fiachra Byrne (University College Dublin)
‘Patient Subjects – Medical Objects: Encounters in the Irish Mental Hospital 1900-58’
5 pm, K114, School of History & Archives, UCD.

Thursday 27 September
Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History, University College Dublin/University of Tasmania)
‘Convict Health on the Voyage to Australia’
5 pm, K114, School of History & Archives, UCD.