Posts Tagged ‘history of the body’
PhD defense Jon Verriet
On June 22, 2022, Jon Verriet will defend his dissertation Representing the healthy lifestyle: Contested ideas about nutrition and physical exercise in the Netherlands, 1940-2020 at Radboud University. Time: Wednesday…
Read MorePush: Childbirth in global screen culture
Editors Amy C. Chambers, Xi W. Liu, and Kate Taylor-Jones are inviting proposals for contributions to the edited volume “Push, Childbirth in global screen culture”. The act of childbirth is…
Read MorePurity, pollution, purification and defilement
On June 28-30, 2022, the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University are organising the conference “Purity, pollution, purification and defilement in the premodern Mediterranean”. Purity and purification were key…
Read MoreGlobal-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945
The conference “Whose choice, whose rights? Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945” takes place on June 9 and 10 in Glasgow and online. The…
Read MoreFrom automata to transhumans
The conference “From automata to transhumans, Debating human nature and its limitations 1600-2000” takes place in Pisa and online on April 21 and 22, 2022. An important part of the…
Read MoreHistories of surgical training, skills and knowledge in early modern Europe
On September 23 and 24, 2022, the workshop “Learning to cut, bandage and cure. Histories of surgical training, skills and knowledge in early modern Europe” is held at the École…
Read MoreMapping bodies
On April 22-24, 2022, the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place (IASESP) holds an interdisciplinary conference in Chicago entitled “Mapping bodies”. The global pandemic highlights already…
Read MoreFat bodies in the early modern world
On June 28-30, the conference “Fat bodies in the early modern world” takes place onsite in Frankfurt and Edinburgh as well as online. In the emerging field of Fat Studies,…
Read MoreYouth sexuality in postwar Britain
In the online seminar series of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (Glasgow), on March 22 from 5-6.30 (CET) Caroline Rusterholz (University of Cambridge) holds a…
Read MoreSyphilis in the Ottoman empire
In the online seminar series of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (Glasgow), on March 8 from 5-6.30 (CET) Seçil Yılmaz (Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania)…
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