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My article "Paul B. Preciado's queer hospital: healthcare architectures for pleasure, transformation and subversion" is now out in Senses & Society. This will be part of a Special Issue on "Senses and Health/Care Environments". Huge thanks to the editors! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An event for your diary: 'The Afterlives of Objects' Thursday 24th October 6pm at Birkbeck, Bloomsbury. Places are free but do book in advance. I'll be talking about our new research on museum closure and what happens to the collections. AIM bit.ly/3zcN98i

Very excited to share the CfP for our Association for Art History session 'How was it made? How interdisciplinary collaborations in Material Culture Studies and Art History can unlock new avenues of knowledge'

Here I am yet again starting a new health humanities podcast!! This time with the help of my wonderful students here at Rochester. Listen to the trailer here and subscribe / follow: open.spotify.com/episode/3R0iaF… (Also on Apple Podcasts!)

It was a joy to serve as EIC for The Polyphony for the last 2 years. I'm excited to see where Eva Surawy Stepney and the brilliant editorial team will take the platform in the coming years. 🌟🤓

Next June, BECC will be twenty, and we're throwing a party! Ok, we're holding a conference. Maybe with a party. Definitely cake... Please save the date: 26-27 June 2025.

Rosa Zharkikh was a factory worker who started to receive visions after a near-death experience. She embroidered her visions and used a hieroglyphic code she refused to translate. These are from Galerie St. Etienne, Museum of Outsider Art Montenegro, and Collection de l’Art Brut

New approaches to Black British Histories in 'Transactions Royal Historical Society': what's the experience of early career historians? bit.ly/3Y6IdM3 'Emerging Scholars Researching Black British Histories (mid-18th to mid-19th cent.)' now available #openaccess #twitterstorians

Very excited to launch the CfP for the 2025 Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress: “TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers” 🚨🚨🚨 Steven Wilson called for a multilingual medical humanities, and we’re answering that call! Abstracts for papers in any language welcome!

This looks fantastic - booked! 👇📷#histpsych eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-a…

Our second ep of "In the Same Vein" is out! UR Medicine student Spencer wanted to chat to Michael Brown about emotions and surgery, and our resulting conversation ranges from the late eighteenth century to today Have a listen and let me know what you think! open.spotify.com/episode/0OKIES…

A fabulous couple of weeks in Washington DC at Folger Shakespeare Library working on 18th-century representations of Ophelia. Some incredible treasures in their archive to think about the feminisation of madness with. Thanks so much for having me Folger Research #FolgerFinds

📢New additions to our CFPs Page 📢 Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future A multidisciplinary workshop Uni of Birmingham 2–3 July 2025 Deadline for proposals 14 Feb 2025 sshm.org/portfolio/upco…

Calling museum geeks. We've googled, telephoned, checked archives, newspaper reports, and spoken to specialists, but after a year of collecting data on closed museums in the UK we're officially stuck on some venues. Can you help? Have a look at our list: bit.ly/40rmJuV

Are you (or do you know) an early modern PhD student interested in ‘alt-ac’ careers? We’re hosting a careers panel with the wonderful Dr Isabella Rosner (Royal School of Needlework) and @GazelessStare (OUP) on 25th Nov, 6pm. In-person and online! Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's — kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/careers…

I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?

Our first event of the new year is a big one! Dr Anna Jamieson Sarah Knott Naomi Pullin and Professor Karen Harvey on "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," 4-6pm Tuesday 4 Feb (on campus in Birmingham, or on Zoom) birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor…

📢 My article on parents' letters to/about ill children is out in an exciting special issue, 'Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe', ed. Emily Rhodes & Alice Whitehead. It's full of fantastic contributions to the history of parenting! 👇 tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/30/1