starting & so excited + honored to keynote; I admire the work of historians as @WillemijnRuberg (plus, love NL chitchat)

Very exciting to see this is now available for pre-order and out in a few weeks....!! Many thanks to Lynsey Black @DrEmmaMilne Lizzie Seal Sitawa Kimuna & other co-editors not on Twitter! Can't wait to read complete volume 👏books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/th…

Lynsey Black @DrEmmaMilne Lizzie Seal Sitawa Kimuna My own chapter made possible by (& citing), among others, work by Elaine Farrell Rachel Dixon @AggieCrank @DrKDWatson @AM_Kilday Lesley A Hall @carorusterholz @WillemijnRuberg @amandarees9 Tanya Evans @DrAngelaMuir Corrie Decker @hospital_senses Lynn Abrams Dr Meg Arnot 💫

Forensic bitemark analysis for court trials not backed by sufficient data and 'is leading to wrongful convictions' medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-f…

Medical students honor body donors through words, deeds and ceremonies theconversation.com/medical-studen… via The Conversation U.S.

Our Women's History Review special issue stresses need to recentre the perpetrator in discussions of sexual violence. By recognising the historical contingency of sexual perpetrators, we eschew essentialising worldviews. Sexual harm is not natural or immutable. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Read 🌺Cami Sastre🌺's powerful article on military rapes during Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000). Survivors face challenges seeking justice when triumphalist narratives of the war praise the army as national saviours. Women's History Review tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A young Dutch man convicted of murder files a complaint against the third expert report made by psychiatrists, who are accused of bias. This report contradicted the first two that stated he had committed the murders in a psychosis. nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/07…

Out now...my foray into the history of forensics and voice tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Today's the day - always exciting to see latest publications enter the world! Great to see this 🌟collection now out out, including my own essay "‘A Hard-Working and Nice Person?’ Respectability, Femininity and Infanticide in England and Wales, 1800–2000" doi.org/10.1108/978-1-…

‘Hysteria was a dynamic and versatile object that easily adapted to the judicial context’. In our latest issue, Willemijn Ruberg explores hysteria as a shape-shifting forensic psychiatric diagnosis in the Netherlands between 1885-1960. Read it here: 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

new at the HEX Handbook, Mari Eyice on "Experiencing Bodies", in dialogue with a previous entry by Willemijn Ruberg: sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/th…

Reflecting on the case of Myra Hindley, @bourke_joanna draws on a historical account that metnions she 'did not have the decency to go mad', indicating how mental illness was often framed as an explanation for women's violent acts. #shameschool

This interesting article really dovetails with the ERC_FORCE research project, which studied the forensic cultures, also regarding sexual violence, in the Netherlands, Spain, Russia and England. Will add it to our project's bibliography!

📄Jade en Kaat Wils schreven een artikel voor het nieuwste nummer van Historica onder de titel 'Een vergeten stem. Vrouwelijke slachtoffers van seksueel geweld en het forensisch medisch onderzoek'. Het artikel is beschikbaar in open access via: ugp.rug.nl/historica/arti…

ICYMI: Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado and Filipa Queiró, 'The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

We're organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on the *past & present of criminal interrogation* in Utrecht on 13 September 2024. Do submit a proposal if your research touches upon interrogations! More info: interpsy.sites.uu.nl/workshop-crimi… RTs appreciated! #twitterstorians #law

Trending in #PhilosophyOfScience: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Experimental Artefacts (The BJPS) 2) A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation (The BJPS) 3) Plague, Religion & Urban Space in 16th-Century Antwerp (Soc Hist Med) 4) The improvised expert: Staging authority at

Interesting newspaper article about scientific police models in 1933. "U.S. 'Sherlocks' War on Crime. Scotland Yard Decried as Model for United States Police" (The Indianapolis Times, December 19, 1933) Metropolitan Police #USA

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Suspected serial killers and unsuspected statistical blunders. Sally Clark, Lucia de Berk, and Lucy Letby. #lucyletby #freedom4lucy