Howard F. Cline Book Prize In Mexican History HONORABLE MENTION: Dr. Danielle Terrazas Williams The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy and Liberty in Colonial Mexico Yale University Press yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030025… lasaweb.org/en/lasa2023/aw…

First up at the Confabulations X Art Hx panel at #NNMHR2023: dr shelley angelie saggar on the Stopes contraceptive cap, eugenics, and links between histories of colonisation, conversion and medical education.

Next up: Chimwemwe Phiri on situating the black body in medical illustration. Do we need new frames of reference to work with anatomical & pathological images like these?

Now at #NNMHR2023 Shelley Angelie Saggar's dr shelley angelie saggar illuminating and generous paper begins with a racial branded contraceptive cap Science Museum and the celebration of Marie Stopes (her racial eugenics presented as... 1/3 collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co9635…

@SadieLevyGale on ‘colonial visuality’ and how visual propaganda was used to establish the discipline of ‘tropical’ medicine. Art Hx #NNMHR2023

And finally, Dr Michaela Clark on the tensions between care/harm, as well as the visible/invisible nature of race in clinical images and text books. Art Hx #NNMHR2023

Confabulations X Art Hx: health, race and space in archives and museums: A brilliant panel from Confabulations Art Hx - thank you to dr shelley angelie saggar Chimwemwe Phiri @SadieLevyGale Dr Michaela Clark for your sensitive discussions of some fascinating images and objects #NNMHR2023

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…

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 Wellcome

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.

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!

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.

I’ve had a great time organizing this conference with PlusUltraEmily, and I'm super excited it's finally coming up at the The Huntington this weekend. If you're in the LA area, please consider joining us! #twitterstorians huntington.org/slave-trade

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

Read Claire 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

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to Dr Rebecca Whiteley (rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social) talking with the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) about her book Birth Figures. Really looking forward to hearing her presentations with both Confabulations and Broadly Conceived this coming week. newbooksnetwork.com/birth-figures

Global Bodies, 1700-Present: Art, Race, Identity, Encounters. A roundtable discussion between Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (Art History at Essex), Keren Hammerschlag (ANU Art History & Theory), Tania Cleaves (née Woloshyn), Dr Rebecca Whiteley (rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social) & Sonia Favi. This Weds 5 July, 6pm BST. confabulationsdotorg.wordpress.com/global-bodies/

New blog alert! Read Mackenzie Cooley's Mackenzie Cooley '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