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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

📅Our PhDs are presenting at #SSHM2026 : Krittapak Ngamvaseenont, “The Creation of a Mental Health Model for Developing Countries: Thailand and International Mental Health in the Cold War” Megan Bridgeland, “Teaching, Tinkering and Toys: Crafting a New Culture of Neurosurgical Education, c.1930–60”

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Megan Bridgeland (University of Manchester) “Teaching, Tinkering and Toys: Crafting a New Culture of Neurosurgical Education, c. 1930–50” Tue 9 June, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Xinyue Li (University of Manchester) “More than Superstition: Rethinking Rainmaking as Drought Relief in an "Age of Science”” Tue 2 June, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Flavio Rossi (Université de Lausanne) “Articulating Asian religious practices: three epistemic trading zones in Switzerland (1900-1950).” Tue 19 May, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Dyuti Gupta (University of Manchester) “'Sister Morphine': Care, Pain, and Painkilling in First World War Nursing Narratives” Tue 12 May, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Fu Ge Yang (University of Cambridge) “Is it fraud? Jingshen healing and the psychiatric trade in 1930s Beijing” Tue 21 April, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM

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Manon Raffard @manonraffard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Will be presenting some of my work on phenol disinfection, cholera policy and socio-environmental violence this Thursday at 7pm BST! Info: www.chstm.org/group/health... #frenchstudies #histmed #histsci #medhum #envhum #envhist #hstm

Poster for the talk featuring a French imperial soldier attacking cholera with a phenol cannon.

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📢 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) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistMed

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📢 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” Tue 10 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK) Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📢 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 Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistMed

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Giving a talk for Sydney HPS next Monday! Planetary Health beyond Spaceship Earth. Featuring the music and thought of Sun Ra

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

📢 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/eR5m5f46mHJH... #histmed #HistSTM

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

📢 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 #histmed

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

📢 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

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Our CHSTM PhD Krittapak Ngamvaseenont (@ngamvaseenont.bsky.social) 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-...

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Can Phi Pob Speak? ANZSHM NSW Seminar with Krittapak Ngamvaseenont

Get tickets on Humanitix - Can Phi Pob Speak? ANZSHM NSW Seminar with Krittapak Ngamvaseenont. Online. Monday 1st December 2025. Find event information.

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Join us for the Postgraduate Seminar! Katherine Enright (University of Cambridge) — “Capturing the ‘Rhinoceros Song’: Ethnozoology, Sound Recording and Physical Anthropology in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900” Tue25Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New #OpenAccess volume by Huiyi Wu and Mackenzie Cooley: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" 🗺️ The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds. 🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN #HistSci #Sinology

Cover of the volume. On an orange and olive background, it features excerpts of two drawn maps, one with Spanish, one with Chinese inscriptions.

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Proofs of the Afterword by @cwaldby.bsky.social and me for the social survey in global perspective book have arrived. Edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh, @clarecorbould.bsky.social and me, published in 2026 by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page: 'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context' Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026 Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball @re-histories.bsky.social #DisHist

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History of Medicine CFPs

If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

But first it's Dr Lewis Bremner's turn, next Tuesday (hosted jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies) blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

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East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 11 November 2025

Dr Lewis Bremner The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

📢 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

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

📢 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/rN5SL487xvg1... Enquiries: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM #histmed

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📢 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, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistMed

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

📢 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 #histmed

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Next week

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

One of our CHSTM PhDs, @xinyueli.bsky.social, 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!

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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

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