Naomi Samake-Backert standing in front of a PowerPoint in a lecture theatre.
Fantastic presentation by Naomi Samake-Backert of the RE:SHaRE team as part of the @cshhh.bsky.social seminar series this evening. Naomi spoke to us on her important research on virginity testing and reproductive surveillance at Heathrow airport in the late 70s. #histmed
Facilitating a conversation between some brilliant thinkers @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on Thursday around the material culture of childbirth. Expect scrolls, pools and talismanic objects!
Delighted to welcome Naomi Samake-Bäckert to share her research into Black woman's activism in the 1970s around the practice of state-mandated virginity testing at Heathrow with the @cshhh.bsky.social on Tuesday the 10th of March 4-5.30 pm in the Business School Cathedral Wing Room 408.
Looking forward to hosting Tom White next week for a co-hosted seminar with the Scottish Oral History Centre, Tuesday 3rd of March 4-5.30pm Graham Hills Building Room 222. Everyone welcome!
Next CSHHH seminar on February 3rd in Strathclyde Business School CW408 4-5.30pm with Dr Francesca Lewis speaking on the fascinating history of Borderline Personality Disorder. All welcome!
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Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...
Our first seminar of 2026 will take placeThursday 22nd of Jan 4-5.30 pm @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the CW406a where we will be joined by Dr Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen on 'Living with risk assessments. How direct-to-consumer genetic testing changes narratives of illness and health'. Come!
A reminder that the deadline to get your abstracts in for the nest Society for the Social History of Medicine conference Leeds 2026 is almost upon us!
Come along to the last @cshhh.bsky.social seminar of 2025!
Saved the best to last, come hear @jdnott.bsky.social of @biomedselfsoc.bsky.social on the East African Medical Survey, mathematics, and modernism. 26th November, 4pm-5.30pm, Teaching & Learning Building 325, Strathclyde. Wine /crips
Thrilled to be hearing from @drflewis.bsky.social on the history of Borderline Personality Disorder @cshhh.bsky.social on Wednesday 19th November, 4pm-5.30pm in the Graham Hills Building 514, University of Strathclyde. Everyone welcome! No need to sign up just come along
One last reminder and then I promise I will stop but if you are anywhere near Glasgow on Wednesday do please come celebrate 20 years of the @cshhh.bsky.social with us! Talks from the fantastic Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social, drinks and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social's best snacks!
Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed
Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed
We are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here:
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Excited to be joining @ruairirobertson.bsky.social, @jenniepedley.bsky.social, Merrilees Roberts, Joanna Penso and Rhodri Hayward for an evening of gut based malarky. Thursday 12 June, free to attend, likely be refreshments of some kind, do come! @c19qmul.bsky.social @qmul-microbiome.bsky.social
Next week the CSHHH will host Sioban Nelson (University of Toronto) for the last of this term's seminars on 'The Tale of the Abandoned Trunk: Rockefeller Foundation Nursing Fellows and the Politics of a Global Vision for American Nursing in the Mid Twentieth Century' 4-5.30 TL565
Celebrating the retirement of the peerless Caroline Marley, @cshhh.bsky.social administrator and minder of Prof Mills.
Next Tuesday (4th of March) we welcome Merrilees Roberts (QMUL) to @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for the next @cshhh.bsky.social seminar! 4-5.30 pm in TL565 to hear about 'Keats’s Blushing Bodies: Inflammation, Arousal and Critique'. All welcome, there will be wine and crisps obviously.