School of Medical Sciences

Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich (CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2025
Set in interwar Berlin, Brandy Schillace’s book The Intermediaries tells the story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights.…

The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan (East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2025
In 1802, the Nagasaki-based translator Shizuki Tadao completed the final volume of a work that presented Japanese readers for the first time with explanations of universal gravitation,…

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