Art Hx @ArtHxProject
Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism | Led by @AnnaArabindan | Header image: https://t.co/HtiwbucxxI artandcolonialmedicine.com Joined January 2021-
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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. confabulationsdotorg.wordpress.com/global-bodies/
New blog alert! Read Mackenzie Cooley's @NewWorldNature1 'Raza and Breeding in Renaissance Italy' now live rb.gy/s9831. This latest installment in our series explores the use of the term 'race' when breeding animals in early modern Europe #earlymodern #histmedrace
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. newbooksnetwork.com/birth-figures
Read @c_weeda's blog 'Physiognomy and Work Recruitment Before Europe’s Overseas Expansion', now live on our website! rb.gy/78zfz huge thanks to Claire for this fantastic contribution to our blog series #earlymodern #histmed
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 rb.gy/mrc3t Huge thanks to Farren! #histmedrace #histmed #earlymodern
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 huntington.org/slave-trade
Howard F. Cline Book Prize In Mexican History HONORABLE MENTION: @DrDanielleTW The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy and Liberty in Colonial Mexico @yalepress yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030025… lasaweb.org/en/lasa2023/aw…
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.
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 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.
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/early-modern/e…
The folks at Durham have been wonderful collaborators - really excited to see how they break new barriers in medical humanities with this new initiative!
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: tinyurl.com/DRP-Med-Hums @wellcometrust
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/news/2023/04/1…
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
@SadieLevyGale on ‘colonial visuality’ and how visual propaganda was used to establish the discipline of ‘tropical’ medicine. @ArtHxProject #NNMHR2023
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?
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.
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
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/objects/co9635…

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