Bart’s Hospital Pathology Museum Spring Seminar Series 2012

Seminar 1: 18^th April

Prof. Iwan Rhys Morus (Aberystwyth University) ‘Science and the Senses’

Dr. Claire Brock (University of Leicester) 'Risk, Responsibility, and the Female Surgeon, 1890-1910'

Seminar 2: 25^th April

Dr. Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes University) 'Florence Marryat and Maternal Impressions: from the spiritualistic to the literary'

Dr. Shane McCorristine (University of Leicester) 'The Ethereal Woman in Victorian Arctic Exploration'

Seminar 3: 2^nd May

Dr. Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan) ‘Catalepsy, Case Notes and George Eliot’

Kirsty Chilton (Old Operating Theatre) ‘Bart’s, Bellingham and the Body Snatchers’

Seminar 4: 9^th May

Dr. Anna Maerker (Kings College London) ‘Models vs Specimens: Debating the utility of artificial anatomies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’

Dr. Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University) ‘‘In my opinion it was a child at full time’: Infanticide in English and Welsh Medico-Legal Practice, 1730-1914’

Seminar 5: 16^th May

Karen Howell (Old Opertaing Theatre) ‘Curating the Old Operating Theatre’

Dr. Alan Bates (University College London) 'London's Lost Anatomy Museums'

Dr. Ken Arnold (Wellcome Trust) ‘Putting Medicine on Show’

Seminar 6: 30^th May

Dr. Karl Harrison (Cranfield University) ‘Case Studies in Forensic Archaeology’

Prof. Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College) ‘The Mummy Unwrapp’d!’

Seminar 7: 13^th June - The Centre for the History of Emotions (Queen Mary College, University of London)

Dr. Tiffany Watt-Smith ‘Turning aside and looking askance: body parts and the choreography of spectatorship’

Jen Wallis ‘Disturbing images ... not to be produced: Visualising Pathology in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum’

A Special Event on 27^th June

Alastair Duncan (The Sherlock Holmes Society) ‘A Study in Barts: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson and England's Great Hospital’

Drinks and nibbles will be served from 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.

For more information see http://springseries.eventbrite.co.uk/

You can also follow us on Twitter @bartspathology

Venue:

The Pathology Museum

3rd Floor Robin Brook Centre (outpatients entrance)

(Bart’s Hospital site)

West Smithfield,

London EC1M 6BQ

t: 020 7882 8766 or 2216

St. Paul’s station on the Central line, Barbican Station on Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines are all within a short walking distance. Follow signs for St.Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Bus

Routes 25 and 8 stop by St Paul’s. Route 56 stops outside Bart’s Hospital.

Car

NCP car park in West Smithfield charges £2 per hour all day. On-street metered parking available. Bart’s Hospital lies within the congestion charge zone.

Overground

First Capital Connect services to Hertford North and Welwyn Garden City from nearby Moorgate

Cycle

Cycle docking stations can be found outside Bart’s Hospital on Giltspur Street