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Exploring Research Seminar Series Spring 2020

Library Viewing Room, 2^nd Floor, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road

For all events, doors open at 17.15, seminars start promptly at 17.30

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Tuesday 28^th January 2020:

Title: Playing at Creating Reality

Speaker: Robert Adès is Assistant Editor of ‘The Collected Works of Donald Winnicott’

Talk: This talk will explore the relationship between playing and health through the paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s compelling accounts of the origins of creativity in the baby's first experiences.

Tuesday 11^th February 2020:

Title: The queer world of Margaret Lowenfeld

Speaker: Dr Katherine Hubbard, feminist academic at the University of Surrey

Talk: Dr Katherine Hubbard will discuss her research on Margaret Lowenfeld (1890-1973), a pioneering child psychotherapist and all-round unique woman. Find out more about the life and love(r)s of this fascinating figure.

Tuesday 3^rd March 2020:

Title: Surrogacy as reproductive labour

Speaker: Dr Sigrid Vertommen is a research fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, and an affiliated scholar at the Sociology of Reproduction Research Group of the University of Cambridge

Talk: Dr Vertommen will explore the porous boundaries between gift-commodity, motherhood-work, altruism-profit in the fertility industry.

Tuesday 17^th March 2020:

Title: ‘Do NOT Flush Feminine Waste’: The History of the UK Sanitary Bin’

Speaker: Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews.

Talk: Dr Røstvik will examine the incinerators that led to calls for better menstrual waste management in the 1940s, the growth of the bin cleaning system in the 1960s, and the industry’s intersection with environmental and menstrual activism in the late-twentieth century.

Tuesday 31^st March 2020:

Title: Racial politics of radical mental health

Speaker: Jayasree Kalathil

Talk: Jayasree Kalathil will discuss her research into the history of mental health activism and advocacy at the intersections of ‘race’ and psychiatry drawing on the library’s collection of Asylum, the radical mental health magazine as a case study

Julia Nurse

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Acting Programme Lead (Research Communities)

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