Research Events
Current year (2024-25)
Term 1
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Research Seminar: Jolien Gijbels (Free University, Brussels), 'Surgical consent: negotiating gynaecological operations in the John Hopkins Hospital, ca. 1890-1910'
Faculty of Arts, FAB 3.26, 1-3pm
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Research Seminar: Bonnie Evans (Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary), ‘The World Health Organization and International Approaches to Developmental Psychology and Children’s Rights 1948-2024’.
Faculty of Arts, FAB 3.30, 12-2pm
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Research Seminar: Elisabeth Yang (Wellcome Trust Early Career Award Fellow, University of Leeds), 'Constructing Moral Babies: The Medical and Scientific Enterprise of Infancy in Victorian America and Britain’.
Faculty of Arts, FAB 3.32, 4:30-6:30pm
Term 2
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Work in Progress: Andrew Burchell (Uppsala University), "Enacting (chronic) diseases: rheumatic and diabetic organisations in mid-century Britain"
Ramphal, R1.15, 11am - 1pm
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Joint Research Seminar with French Studies and History of Art: Hannah Halliwell (University of Edinburgh)
Faculty of Arts, FAB 3.30, 4pm - 6pm
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Work in Progress: Sophie Mann (Warwick University), “Practices and Objects of ‘Double Care’ in the Early Modern Household”
Millburn House, A0.26, 11am - 1pm
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Research Seminar: Michael Sappol (Visiting Researcher, University of Uppsala), ‘Queer Anatomies: Perverse desire and aesthetics in the anatomical image 1600-1860; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet’
Faculty of Arts, FAB 3.32, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Research Seminar: Laura King (University of Leeds), 'Living with the Dead: Graves, Names and Telling Family Stories in Modern Britain’
Millburn House A0.26, 11am - 1pm
Term 3
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Work in Progress: Caitjan Gainty (Kings College London)
‘“As Like to Cure Us as Kill Us”: Health Activism at Mid-Century’
This work in progress is a chapter for a trade book titled Healthy Scepticism, which, in its main body, offers a set of case studies to explore contemporary lines of health doubts and critiques and traces them historically.
This chapter is one of two early, stage-setting chapters. It offers a background to our contentious moment in health debate and has three main aims (and a bunch of more peripheral ones):
1 to present the history of medical activism in the US and UK from the 1950s-1970s in a readable way that does not lose intellectual complexity.
2 to mark this moment as offering an important point of origin for health scepticism that follows (of useful and the decidedly un-useful varieties)
3 to use the explicit antagonisms set between medicine’s critics and its institutionalised form in this era as a way into the thorny questions about how we represent medicine (quite differently) in our contemporary and where these meanings come from and how they are made.
Faculty of Arts, FAB 5.01, 12-2pm
Thursday, 5 June 2025
Work in Progress: Caroline Rusterholz (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Faculty of Arts, FAB 2.43, 3-5pm