Dear all,
I am pleased to announce the posting of the five lectures presented in
the Toxic Atmospheres seminar series held at the Institut d’Història de
la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero (CSIC-UVEG) between February
and September 2013. The seminar series was coordinated by Ximo Guillem-
Llobat and José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez, funded by the IHMC-López Piñero
and the Catalan Society for the History of Science and the lectures were
registered by the Educational Innovation Service of the Universitat de
València.
The videos of the seminars can be watched at:
http://www.ihmc.uv-csic.es/videoteca.php
The series includes:
1) Frank Uekoetter (Rachel Carson Center. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Fellow). Urbanity Spoiled. Pollution in the City in and beyond the Age
of Smoke. 7/2/2013, IHMC López Piñero, Valencia.
2) Nathalie Jas (Unité RiTME, INRA). Making Visible What Was Invisible:
a Task for Historians? Arsenic and Farm Workers Health in France 1890s -
1960s. 28/2/2013, IHMC López Piñero, Valencia.
3) Joseph Melling (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter).
Dangerous Trade: Ideas for writing a Trans-national Industrial Hazard
History. 7/3/2013, IHMC López Piñero, Valencia.
4) Thomas Le Roux (Maison Française d’Oxford-CNRS). Industrial pollution
and risk: the great French shift, 1750-1850. 21/3/2013, Sala Darwin -
Campus de Burjassot (UVEG), Valencia.
5) Alfredo Menéndez-Navarro (Universidad de Granada). Amianto: de
problema laboral a riesgo ambiental, 1960-1980. 24/9/2013, IHMC López
Piñero, Valencia
We hope you will enjoy them as much as we did on the day!
Best wishes,
Ximo Guillem-Llobat (IHMC-López Piñero/Universitat de València)