UCL Health Humanities Centre
@uclhhcentre.bsky.social
The UCL Health Humanities Centre draws together staff from different disciplines and departments engaged in teaching and research on matters relating to health, illness and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/health-humanities-centre
Critique, Critical Theory & Systems Theory in Medical Humanities: A Historical Note Prof Neil Vickers (KCL) ------------------- Making Better Numbers: Ten Years of Collaboration Between Ethnography & Epidemiology Prof Elizabeth Roberts (U. Michigan) 📅2 June 6–7:30 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Interdisciplinary health dialogues
Keynote lectures with Prof Elizabeth Roberts and Prof Neil Vickers.
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Interdisciplinary health dialogues. Elizabeth Roberts : Making Better Numbers: Ten Years of Collaboration Between Ethnography and Epidemiology; Neil Vickers: Critique, Critical Theory and Systems Theory in the Medical Humanities: A Historical Note 2 June 6pm-7.30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...
Interdisciplinary health dialogues
Join Prof Elizabeth Roberts and Prof Neil Vickers for an open event exploring histories and practices in interdisciplinary health research.
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Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care & Race in US-Mexico Borderlands 26 May 4:30-6pm Uncovering nearly 100yrs of struggle, Prof Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of border fought to reclaim autonomy & care for themselves & their community www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Prof Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their community.
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Should disadvantaged patients have higher priority on medical waiting lists? 14 May 2026, 6:15pm-7:30pm Johann Go (@uclgbsh.bsky.social) will introduce an ethical framework for thinking about waiting list design in healthcare. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Should disadvantaged patients have higher priority on medical waiting lists?
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Johann Go (Global Business School for Health, UCL), who will introduce an ethical framework for thinking about waiting list design in healthcare and explain ho...
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Should disadvantaged patients have higher priority on medical waiting lists? Johann Go @uclgbsh.bsky.social will introduce an ethical framework for waiting list design in healthcare & explain how this helps reflect on this question. 📅14 May 6:15pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Should disadvantaged patients have higher priority on medical waiting lists?
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Johann Go (Global Business School for Health, UCL), who will introduce an ethical framework for thinking about waiting list design in healthcare and explain ho...
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Our last big hurrah before we're shut down. We hope you can join us (free lunch!) 28 April 2026, 9am-5pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
A one-day symposium that will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.
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Deep Listening Workshop 17 March 2026, 6pm-7:30pm Through guided exercises and collective sound-based activities, participants will experiment with listening as an embodied and relational practice. Part One of Two... www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Deep Listening Workshop
Led by Artur M. Vidal, this participatory workshop introduces elements of Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice, which explores the difference between hearing and listening. Through guided exercis...
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This #WomensHistoryMonth, check out the new exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum, 'In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine', and find out about this St Bartholomew's Hospital nurse and her life's work in the fight for women's rights www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/exhibition-i...
Exhibition ‘In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine’
In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine Friday 6th March - Sunday 4th October The fourth exhibition of our In Focus - In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine is now open. This exhibition gives an in depth look at t...
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Symposium: Autopathography Beyond Narrative Closure 12 March 6:30-8:30pm Some experiences stay unruly, refuse to settle & don’t fit neatly into linear stories. This event looks at lived experiences of physical/mental health when they resist coherence & narrative closure www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Symposium: Autopathography Beyond Narrative Closure
Some experiences don’t behave; they stay unruly, refuse to settle & don’t fit neatly into linear stories. This symposium looks at how lived experiences of physical and/or mental health are approached ...
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It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
All good things come to an end
It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.
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Drawing the Child’s Mind: Visual Tools in Psychology (1890–1960) 12 Feb 6:15-7:30pm Join Dr Camille Jaccard (@ucl-ias.bsky.social VRF) to explore history of observation, screening & treatment techniques in child psychiatry, esp. children’s drawings & projective tests. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Drawing the Child’s Mind: Visual Tools in Psychology (1890–1960)
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Dr. Camille Jaccard (IAS Visiting Research Fellow), who will explore the history of observation, screening and treatment techniques in child psychiatry, with p...
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Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'. 12 February 2026, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice
This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'.
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The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance 13 Feb 12-1pm This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data can drive, represent & inform musical expression across music making and education domains. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance
This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data—such as muscle activity, movement, and physiological signals—can function to drive, represent and inform musical expression across music making...
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Looking at Britain through health and healthcare: changes and challenges 12 Feb 5:30pm A panel of experts discuss the most urgent health issues facing Britain today, and how our understanding of health and healthcare is changing in the contemporary landscape. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Looking at Britain through health and healthcare: changes and challenges
The event brings together a panel of experts in the field of healthcare in modern Britain to discuss the most urgent health issues facing Britain today, and how our understanding of health and healthc...
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Rewriting Race in Early Modern Medicine 5 February 1-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Rewriting Race in Early Modern Medicine
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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'Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth': a history of post-war psychiatry UCL French & Francophone Research is delighted to announce the 2026 Noble Lecture with prize-winning French novelist Adèle Yon. 29 January 2026, 5pm-7pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
'Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth': a history of post-war psychiatry
UCL French & Francophone Research is delighted to announce the 2026 Noble Lecture with prize-winning French novelist Adèle Yon.
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Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health 2 Feb 6:15–8:15pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcome Susi Geiger & Théo Bourgeron to present their new book, which traces the long-wave movements between the pharmaceutical industry, its discontents and regulators. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health
UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is delighted to welcome authors Susi Geiger (University College Dublin) and Théo Bourgeron (University of Edinburgh) to present their new book. Moderated by Professor...
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The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s 29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Prof Jonathan Bell (UCL Institute of the Americas), who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.
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Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England 22 January 2026, 1pm–2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Hybrid Seminar: Urban Mental Health 2 Dec 12-2pm UCL & online Exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Seminar: Urban Mental Health
An in-person and online seminar exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being.
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‘So-called Puerperal Insanity’ Diagnosing Postnatal Mental Illness (late 19th-early 20thC) 27 Nov 6:15pm With case studies from London & Liverpool asylums, Hilary Marland examines response of asylum doctors to debate about role of childbirth in prompting mental illness www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
‘So-called Puerperal Insanity’: Diagnosing Postnatal Mental Illness (late 19th- early 20th century)
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Hilary Marland. Taking case studies from London & Liverpool asylums, this paper examines the responses of asylum doctors to debates about the role of childbirth in prompting mental illness.
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Scent as Portal: a memory workshop Nov 23 from 2pm to 4pm GMT No.1 Poultry, London. An interactive workshop and sensorial journey featuring guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises. With our Creative Fellow Claire Sunho Lee, and Jon Kempton. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scent-as-p...
Scent as Portal: a memory workshop with Claire Sunho Lee and Jon Kempton
An interactive workshop and sensorial journey featuring guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises
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NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice 3 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health).
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Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell 20 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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#London! Join Alison Bashford tonight, Nov 13 at 6:15pm, with @ucl-ias.bsky.social & @uclhhcentre.bsky.social as she discusses her new book, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #BookTour #palmistry buff.ly/Bw0sA38
Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story 13 Nov 6:15pm-7:30pm Join Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics.
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Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story 13 Nov 6:15-7:30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Join our seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics.
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Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice 11 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health)
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Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus' 6 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus'
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Scent as Portal: A Memory Workshop 24 October 2025, 2:30 pm–5:00 pm Through a series of guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises, participants will explore how fragrance can stir memory and emotion and give form to the formless. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Scent as Portal: A Memory Workshop
Through a series of guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises, participants will explore how fragrance can stir memory and emotion and give form to the formless.
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