Past events
Public lectures
Professor Sarah Franklin (Department of Sociology) gave her inaugural lecture, 'After IVF: the Reproductive Turn in Social Thought', on 30 October 2013.
Born to Rule: Royal Births in Tudor and Stuart England was a pair of lectures given in June 2013 in which leading historians explored how Tudor and Stuart monarchs begat children. Peter Jones gave the first lecture, 'Henry VIII: The Quest for an Heir'. Mary Fissell gave the second lecture, 'Mary of Modena: A Royal Scandal'.
Exhibition
Books and Babies: Communicating Reproduction, an exhibition supported by our Wellcome Trust strategic award, was on display at the University Library from July to December 2011.
Reproduction on Film
- Sex, Secrets and Lies
Fifth 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2016 - Outlaws
Fourth 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2015 - Making Babies
Third 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2013 - Monstrosity
Second 'Reproduction on Film' series, February to March 2012 - Reproductive Dystopias
First 'Reproduction on Film' series, March 2011
Festival of Ideas
- Should We Be Having Babies at 20?
21 October 2015 - Is Menstruation Healthy?
22 October 2014 - Can Europe Reproduce Itself? Debating Europe's Fertility
28 October 2013 - Forging Frontiers in Classical Medicine: Exploring the Body
Lecture by Rebecca Flemming, 26 October 2013 - Debating Reproduction: Hospital Birth
1 November 2012 - Debating Reproduction: IVF
20 October 2011
Workshops and conferences
- The Contested History of Hormone Pregnancy Tests
27 January 2017 - Reproductive Politics in France and Britain
5–7 September 2016 - Sex, Disease and Fertility in History
28–30 September 2015 - Reproduction on Film
23–25 September 2015 - Con/Tested: Sperm Science, Sterility and Masculinity
11–12 September 2014 - Cities and Towns as Epidemiological Drivers: Emerging Issues in Urban Historical Demography
17–18 March 2014 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 9
15 November 2013 - Making Love, Making Gender, Making Babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
6–7 September 2013 - In/Fertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern
15–16 July 2013 - Generation and Reproduction in Medieval Europe
8 December 2012, preceded by a lecture by Marianne Elsakkers (Utrecht) on 7 December - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 8
23 November 2012 - Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond
13–14 July 2012 - Making Human Heredity: Populations and Public Health in the Postwar Era
28–30 June 2012 - Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900
29–30 March 2012 - Communicating Reproduction
5–6 December 2011 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 7
18 November 2011 - Reproduction and the Sciences in Cambridge
8 April 2011 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 6
12 November 2010 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 5
30 October 2009 - Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Age of Capital and Empire, 1848–1919
22–23 April 2009 - Ancient Greek and Roman Scientific, Medical and Technical Writing
21 March 2009 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 4
14 November 2008 - Seriality and Scientific Objects in an Age of Revolution, 1780–1848
16–17 June 2008 - Ancient Greek and Roman Medical and Scientific Writing
15 March 2008 - The 'Missing Link': Medicine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
8 March 2008 - Secrets and Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Commerce, 1500–1800
15–16 February 2008 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 3
16 November 2007 - Cases in Science, Medicine and the Law
20–21 April 2007 - PhD Workshop on Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine
23 March 2007 - Interdisciplinary Workshops on Reproduction 1 & 2
17 November 2006 and 2 March 2007 - Temporalizing the Great Chain of Being: A Reappraisal After 70 Years
16 January 2007 - Astrology and the Body, 1100–1800
8–9 September 2006 - Science and Medicine in the Multinational Empires of Central and Eastern Europe
23 June 2006 - Free School Lane Workshop on Reproduction
17 October 2005 - Between the Farm and the Clinic: Agriculture and Reproductive Technology in the Twentieth Century
29 April 2005
Wellcome Lectures
- Fifteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Sarah Richardson (Harvard University), 13 February 2020 - Fourteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University), 17 January 2019 - Thirteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Alisha Rankin (Tufts University), 1 March 2018 - Twelfth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan), 24 November 2016 - Eleventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg), 14 January 2016 - Tenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Rebecca Flemming (Classics, Cambridge), 15 January 2015 - Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow), 16 January 2014 - Eighth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France), 17 January 2013 - Seventh Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter), 19 January 2012 - Sixth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University), 20 January 2011 - Fifth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Angus McLaren (University of Victoria), 3 December 2009 - Fourth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Rayna Rapp (New York University), 4 December 2008 - Third Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge), 29 November 2007 - Second Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Hilary Marland (University of Warwick), 23 November 2006 - First Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Helen King (Reading University), 1 December 2005