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Health Humanities Research Group

@healthhumslboro.bsky.social

Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research group in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Posts by @hannahpalmer.bsky.social

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)@sshmedicine.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A workshop for early-career researchers based in the UK on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project and Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) 📆29-30 Oct 2026 University of Stirling Applications by 15 April

Decentring the Medical Humanities - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research

Decentring the Medical Humanities: NNMHR (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research) early career workshop Date: Starting on 29 October 2026 at 13.00, and concluding on 30 October at 13.00. Pla...

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Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS@braddonite.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...

Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: 27th March 2026

A VPFA Study DayHosted by Loughborough University Registration now open! Click here to register Scroll down for the Study Day Programme The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect…

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Ketil Slagstad@slagstadk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu

Gender Insight

Through co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Can you 'hear' disease? What does it feel like to 'smell' sickness? We're excited to be hosting a one-day in-person workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities. 📅 Tue 24 Feb, 11am–4pm Book your free spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

The Senses and Medical Humanities

A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities through short talks, creative activities, and networking.

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Loughborough English@lboroenglish.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

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BSECS@bsecs.bsky.social · 9mo ago

***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

BECC-BSECS Postgraduate Fellowship - University of Birmingham

The Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies run an annual fellowship.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📅 On Monday 9 February 5–6pm we are delighted to be hearing from @drhick.bsky.social about 'Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria'. This is a free, online event. More info and book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersecti...

Intersections in Medical and Environmental Humanities

An online talk by Dr Clare Hickman about Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria.

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association@vpfa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

don't forget to send in your abstracts for this VPFA study day. Women's bodily experiences are so often overlooked in fiction, so this study day is so important for bringing those to light.

Victorian Popular Fiction Association@vpfa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Another VPFA Study Day: 'The Critical Age in Victorian Popular Literature' ❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause 🌏 online 📅 19th May 2026 💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members Send proposals (250) to jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk and siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk by 19th February 2026

This one-day symposium seeks to explore representations of the ‘critical age’ – the (peri-) menopause – in Victorian popular literature. The peri-menopausal and menopausal experiences of Victorian women have to date been overlooked or underrepresented in scholarly discussions of the period. Victorian popular literature, from novels to periodicals to advice books, provided an essential forum for discussing and shaping the public understanding of women’s bodies, even as much of it sought to obscure the female body. The (peri-) menopausal experience was often framed in terms of illness, excess, and degeneration, or, conversely, was relegated to silence. Women at the ‘critical age’ are frequently marginalised and associated with a range of negative stereotypes in literary and cultural narratives. This call for papers invites exploration of how this phase of women’s lives was constructed in the Victorian imagination, in medical discourses and advice literature, and in women’s lived experiences. We invite 20-minute papers exploring any aspect of the critical age in Victorian popular literature. Topics for exploration include but are not limited to: • Representations of the critical age in Victorian popular fiction • The medicalisation of (peri-) menopause • Cultural constructions of middle-aged women • Class and (peri-) menopause • (Peri-) Menopause in Victorian advice literature • Motherhood and (peri-) menopause • Experiences of the critical age in Victorian women’s life writing • Myths and popular misconceptions The event will also include a Digital Humanities Research Skills Workshop, with an emphasis on making digital methods more accessible. We invite short papers or workshop proposals that showcase how digital tools can be used to research women and their bodies in Victorian literature. Possible topics include data creation/cleaning/visualisations, textual, quantitative or statistical analysis, using AI or specific tools (such as Voyant or Power BI).
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer@hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨

Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes

‘Poor Mrs Glover’, wrote Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘[…] the operation is to be today’.1 There are nine letters featuring Mrs Glover and her diagnosis and treatmen

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Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer@hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very much looking forward to sharing my work on pregnancy and motherhood following gynaecological surgery in the mid-19th century as part of this fantastic programme! It is online and free - links in posts below about how to register. Thank you for including me @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social !! 🫀💫

Voices of Motherhood@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Just three weeks to go until our conference! If you've not done so already, you can sign up via the link below. Please email any queries to voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk 📩

Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)@sshmedicine.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

SSHM 2026: In/Out

Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

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Health Humanities Research Group@healthhumslboro.bsky.social · last yr.

🔈📚🕰️🩺 Join us for a Loughborough Health Humanities x Cultural Currents event on Weds 29 October, 16:15. Taking place in a hybrid format - DM us (or DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social) for link and details. See post below for more info on our wonderful speakers👇

@culturalcurrents.bsky.social · last yr.

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

Health Humanities Research Group@healthhumslboro.bsky.social · last yr.

CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

Victorian Popular Fiction Association@vpfa.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa
Voices of Motherhood@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · last yr.

One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline! Full details can be found on our website and please email us [voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk] with any questions.

Voices of Motherhood@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · last yr.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.
Rebecca Wynter@rebeccawynter.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New online event!💥 Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online]  4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time)  As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to give the @royalhistsoc.org's public lecture this December: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' @sheffielduni.bsky.social @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social #histed 📅 Tuesday 10 December, 6pm 🎟️ Free, all welcome. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunger-hea...

Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain, IN-PERSON

Royal Historical Society public lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Institute of Education, UCL

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)@sshmedicine.bsky.social · last yr.

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Kicking the Habit@kthabitproject.bsky.social · last yr.

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.