Saturday 18th September 2010,
Navigating Nightingale, Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
A symposium exploring the multi-faceted life of Florence Nightingale.
The symposium, organised by the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, and hosted by the Wellcome Collection, will see the life and work of Florence Nightingale discussed from a wide variety of angles including war studies, history of medicine, celebrity, the media and film, religion, statistics, travel and life writing.
Speakers and chairs will include academics from a variety of disciplines, Florence Nightingale's biographer, Mark Bostridge, the director of the Florence Nightingale Museum, and a priest.
A provisional programme of the day's papers is available to download below.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/05/44/11/NavigatingNightingaleprogramme.pdf
For more information please follow these links, where credit/debit card registration details (deadline of 31st August) and the final programme will be posted shortly.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/anniversary/index/events
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/events/other.html
We are very grateful for support from the Society for the Social History of Medicine.
There is a £10 discount in the registration fee for students and for SSHM members (£25 rather than £35).
Also, on the evening before, the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery also curates 'Handle with Care', an evening spectacular at the Wellcome Building from 7pm-11pm. It is free and open to all with no registration necessary, but space is limited so it might be best to arrive on time. Please follow this link to the Wellcome Collection webpage for more information
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/handle-with-care.aspx
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