Posts Tagged ‘history of the body’
HHH Column: Shifting Roles: The Decline of Midwife Testimony in Early Modern Sexual Offence Trials
The HHH column is a monthly blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts on research, current affairs, or anything to do with medical history. Each edition…
Read MoreProtecting Bodies at Work: Technical Devices, Materialities of Health, and Political Imaginaries
“Protecting Bodies at Work: Technical Devices, Materialities of Health, and Political Imaginaries”, University of Geneva, September 18-19 2025 How have workers’ bodies been protected in hazardous working environments? Masks, gloves,…
Read MoreBodies and Environments in the Early Modern World
Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World 9th-10th June 2025 John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, UK · Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg…
Read MoreFemale Seeds, Powers, and Bodies: Albert the Great and the Vegetal Sexuality by Amalia Cerrito
The 13th-century Dominican master Albert the Great extensively discusses vegetal sexuality. While animals reproduce through the mating of female and male individuals, plants lack a sexual distinction, reproducing through seeds…
Read MoreJob vacancy: PhD Reading the Female Body in the Early Modern Low Countries (1500-1800) – University of Groningen
The University of Groningen is looking for applications for a fully-funded four-year PhD position in Dutch cultural history at the University of Groningen, focusing on the representation, imagination and scholarly…
Read MoreMartijn van der Meer and Stefan Gaillard listed in Forbes 30 under 30 for co-founding JOTE
HHH member Martijn van der Meer and Stefan Gaillard have been listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in the category Science and Healthcare for co-founding, together with Max…
Read MoreHHH column: Just a scratch by James Kennaway
The HHH column is a monthly blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts: on research, current affairs, and anything to do with medical history. Each edition…
Read MoreVENI grant for Noortje Jacobs
We can donate our organs, blood, bones, urine, milk and sperm – the possibilities seem endless in medicine today. Which moral boundaries do we use when thinking about this? And…
Read MoreHHH column: Knowbody knows by Maaike Hommes
The HHH column is a monthly blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts: on research, current affairs, and anything to do with medical history. Each edition…
Read MoreVictorian resurrections
On September 22-24, 2022, the University of Vienna organizes the conference “Victorian resurrection”. Death and resurrection as well as the fears, fantasies and fads that surround them, pervade Victorian literature…
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