Dr Gayle Davis of University of Edinburgh. Test Tubes and Turpitude. Debates surrounding Artificial Insemination in Mid-Twentieth-Century Scotland’ was given on November 11th 2010 in University College Dublin.
Yearly archives: 2010
Professor Joanna Bourke of Birkbeck College. Her paper ‘Are Women Animals. Women, Sentience, and Rights in the UK from the 1790s to the Twentieth Century’ was given on October 21st 2010 in University College Dublin. Prof Bourke’s new book ‘Are Women Animals?: Historical Reflections on What It Means To Be […]
Joanna Bourke. Are Women Animals. Women, Sentience, and Rights in ...
Professor David Hufford, Senior Fellow at the The Samueli Institute in Virginia. His inquiry has focused on spiritual experience, the experiential grounds for spiritual beliefs, and the role of reason in their development and persistence. His paper “Folk Healing Comes of Age” was given in Trinity College Dublin on September […]
David Hufford. Folk Healing Comes of Age
This episode features Professor James Kelly of St Patrick’s College Drumcondra. His paper I was right glad to be rid of it: dental medical practice in eighteenth-century Ireland was given on September 30th 2010 in University College Dublin. Prof Kelly has published on 18th Century Irish Legislature, poor relief and […]
Jimmy Kelly. Dental Medical Practice in Eigtheenth Century Ireland

This episode features the renowned playwright and poet Frank McGuinness who gave a paper entitled “Living With Mortality: A Short Stay in Switzerland” on February 25th 2010 in the Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD. Frank spoke about the issue of mortality as treated in drama from Greek theatre to contemporary […]
Frank McGuinness. Living With Mortality. A Short Stay in Switzerland
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Reinarz. This episode features Dr Jonathan Reinarz, Director of the History of Medicine Unit at the University of Birmingham. His paper “From rowdy youths to marginal men: a social history of medical students in provincial England, c.1825-1939” was delivered as part of the Centre Seminar Series on […]