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Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism | Led by @AnnaArabindan | Header image: https://t.co/HtiwbucxxI
Joined January 2021
Art Hx is pleased to announce that this year we will be exploring Black Maternal Health! We are excited to welcome Gabriella Nelson to the Art Hx team as the 2023-2024 Scholar-in-Residence to support this work. Stay tuned for more.
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Global Bodies, 1700-Present: Art, Race, Identity, Encounters. A roundtable discussion between Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (@ArtHistoryEssex), Keren Hammerschlag (@anu_cahat), Tania Cleaves (née Woloshyn), @BeccaKWhiteley & @FaviSonia. This Weds 5 July, 6pm BST. https://t.co/bbYLhYejx6
confabulationsdotorg.wordpress.com
Global Bodies: Art, Identities, Encounters since 1800. A roundtable discussion between Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Keren Hammerschlag, Tania Cleaves (née Woloshyn), Rebecca Whiteley and Sonia Favi. Th…
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New blog alert! Read Mackenzie Cooley's @NewWorldNature1 'Raza and Breeding in Renaissance Italy' now live https://t.co/fhGBfdXuzL. This latest installment in our series explores the use of the term 'race' when breeding animals in early modern Europe #earlymodern #histmedrace
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Thoroughly enjoyed listening to @BeccaKWhiteley talking with the @NewBooksNetwork about her book Birth Figures. Really looking forward to hearing her presentations with both @con_fabulations and @BConceived this coming week. https://t.co/ZAWpP7BDMJ
newbooksnetwork.com
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Read @c_weeda's blog 'Physiognomy and Work Recruitment Before Europe’s Overseas Expansion', now live on our website! https://t.co/HQoob5jTCg huge thanks to Claire for this fantastic contribution to our blog series #earlymodern #histmed
mmor.co.uk
In 1560, at Djerba in Tunisia, an Ottoman fleet attacked 27 ships fighting under an alliance of the Spanish, Genoese, Neapolitan powers, Papal State, and the Maltese. It led to high mortalities:...
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The second installment of our new blog series is now live on our website! Read @feyero's fantastic piece on 'Smallpox and Slavery in Ah Cuzamil' here https://t.co/mbKxCT9NmR Huge thanks to Farren! #histmedrace #histmed #earlymodern
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I’ve had a great time organizing this conference with @DrEmilyBerquist, and I'm super excited it's finally coming up at the @TheHuntington this weekend. If you're in the LA area, please consider joining us! #twitterstorians
https://t.co/0MkNr8Sekv
huntington.org
This two-day conference brings together a diverse group of leading scholars of the slave trade in the British and Spanish Empires in an effort to provoke further conversation, collaboration, and...
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Howard F. Cline Book Prize In Mexican History HONORABLE MENTION: @DrDanielleTW The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy and Liberty in Colonial Mexico @yalepress
https://t.co/d4lKbmQnpp
https://t.co/oCZ0I92zKX
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Take. 👏🏽 Imagination. 👏🏽 Seriously. 👏🏽 Sociologist and professor Ruha Benjamin shared a powerful message with the graduating class of University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
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Exciting new project out of King's College London, reflecting on the part played by medical professionals in the transatlantic slave trade. Their first post reflects on the research process... "what is a medical source for the history of slavery?" Well worth a read.
Exciting announcement! We are starting our brand new blog series on the MMoR website TODAY, beginning with an introductory blog post from @murphyhs2019 Read it here! https://t.co/RH0U9Yhndk
#histmed #earlymodern #twitterstorians @kingshistory
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For those around London on June 5 who want to know more about a long, dubious history of eugenics...come check out this talk!
ucl.ac.uk
This talk discusses Mackenzie Cooley's new book—The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance (The University of Chicago Press 2022)—which offers a history of how
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The folks at Durham have been wonderful collaborators - really excited to see how they break new barriers in medical humanities with this new initiative!
Delighted to announce the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities! The Platform will create spaces for experimentation & intellectual risk-taking, support networks globally & transform the capacity of the field. Learn more: https://t.co/R24zMu7F08
@wellcometrust
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Delighted to announce the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities! The Platform will create spaces for experimentation & intellectual risk-taking, support networks globally & transform the capacity of the field. Learn more: https://t.co/R24zMu7F08
@wellcometrust
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Over the moon for former Art Hx team member Sydnae Taylor, who has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. A bright prospect who underlines the care at the heart of healthcare. Congratulations!
princeton.edu
The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.
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And finally, @Michaelaclarkba on the tensions between care/harm, as well as the visible/invisible nature of race in clinical images and text books. @ArtHxProject #NNMHR2023
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@SadieLevyGale on ‘colonial visuality’ and how visual propaganda was used to establish the discipline of ‘tropical’ medicine. @ArtHxProject #NNMHR2023
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Next up: @ChimweMal on situating the black body in medical illustration. Do we need new frames of reference to work with anatomical & pathological images like these?
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First up at the Confabulations X @ArtHxProject panel at #NNMHR2023: @j4lebi on the Stopes contraceptive cap, eugenics, and links between histories of colonisation, conversion and medical education.
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Confabulations X Art Hx: health, race and space in archives and museums: A brilliant panel from @con_fabulations @ArtHxProject - thank you to @j4lebi @ChimweMal @SadieLevyGale @Michaelaclarkba for your sensitive discussions of some fascinating images and objects #NNMHR2023
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Now at #NNMHR2023 Shelley Angelie Saggar's @j4lebi illuminating and generous paper begins with a racial branded contraceptive cap @sciencemuseum and the celebration of Marie Stopes (her racial eugenics presented as... 1/3
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
Rubber cervical cap, "Racial" brand, supplied by the Mother's Clinic
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