But first it's Dr Lewis Bremner's turn, next Tuesday (hosted jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies)

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And again I've got a @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague who has published on it: Dr James Sumner in Nature Reviews Physics.
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We are still waiting for titles and abstracts for the remaining two talks. Watch this space.

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I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.

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Or read one of Dr Evans' journal articles on the issue - you can access a list of publications through this link.

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On 11 November, jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies, we are welcoming Dr Lewis Bremner (Cambridge) for a talk on The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan.

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On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

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