Dear all,
The following interdisciplinary conference, supported by the British
Society for the History of Science, may be of interest to list members.
Jenny
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The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York is
pleased to announce an interdisciplinary day conference on 9 March 2013,
'Medical Matters: The Cultural Politics of the Body in Eighteenth Century
Britain.'
During the eighteenth century and Romantic period, medical accounts of the
body constitute sites of tension, for example between enlightenment
celebrations of progress and older, occult folkloric traditions. Our
speakers will address the medical literature of the period, and will
investigate the significance of medical debates in literary, philosophical
and political texts. The connection between medical debate and cultural
activity operates in two directions, and we are interested in the formal
and the epistemological effects of such cross-currents. Conference papers
will discuss the significance of literary conventions in medical
representations of the body, and the way in which medical theories are used
to underpin aesthetic, social and political speculations during this
period.
Confirmed speakers include Prof Peter Kitston (Dundee), Prof Sharon Ruston
(Salford), Dr Clarke Lawlor (Northumbria), Dr Michael Brown (Roehampton),
Dr Corinna Wagner (Exeter), Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds), Joanna Wharton
(York), and Dr Mary Fairclough (York).
Please click on the poster below for further information and details of how
to reserve your place, or follow this link:
http://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/conferencemedicalmatters2013/
The conference has been generously supported by the British Society for the
History of Science.
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Dr Mary Fairclough
Department of English Literature and
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
University of York
The King's Manor
Exhibition Square
York YO1 7EP
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Jennifer Rampling
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Department of History and
Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RH
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