Rebecca Flemming
@flemmingrebecca
Historian of ancient Greek and Roman science and medicine; trade unionist; co-editor Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day. she/her.
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Next week (25 and 26th Sept) will see the Centre for Hellenistic and Later Greek Studies (directed by Dr Chiara Meccariello and Dr Dr Emma Nicholson) host its relaunch conference entitled 'Innovation and Discovery in the Hellenistic World'. (1/2)
In S1E9, Dr. Kate Cooper Kate Cooper talked about those rare surviving moments when ancient women wrote for themselves. Royal Holloway womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/in-he…
Rachel Charlton-Dailey OUT IN MARCH 🗓️ From classical Greece to #RoeVWade, a long-overdue history of #abortion through changing social and cultural climates. #Abortion: A History by Mary Fissell is a vividly illuminating history that reminds us that restrictions on women’s independence never endure.
I'm giving a talk for Shame&Medicine next month, you should come! 'Carmita Wood in her own words: Shame, loneliness, and epistemic injustice at a speak-out on sexual harassment in Ithaca in 1975.' shameandmedicine.org/fred-cooper-se…
In Season 2 Episode 1, we talk with Professor Rebecca Flemming about ancient gynecology, wandering wombs, and what agency women had over the healing of their bodies. Exeter Classics Listen on all your podcast apps or at womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/wande…
Prof Lauren Kassell is delivering the 2024 SSHM Lecture. 'Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine' 🗓️Mon 2 December 🕰️4:00 - 5:30pm (GMT) Online - All Welcome Casebooks Project #histmed eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sshm-lec…
*Really really* excited to be part of this important, multidisciplinary, creative Centre, with such fantastic colleagues. Looking forward to the next 5 years 🌳 🌍 (Watch out for a PhD being advertised in the near future!) Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Exeter Classics Arts and Culture University of Exeter
@HolleranClaire has written a fantastic piece for The Conversation - 'Graffiti was a powerful form of protest in ancient Rome – as Gladiator II shows' Read it here➡️theconversation.com/graffiti-was-a…
Call for #histmed abstracts: #EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine, Berlin, August 26 - 29, 2025 hi.converia.de/frontend/index… president Dora Vargha Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin