laura cowley
@lauracowley.bsky.social
Wellcome PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, History of Art. Researching visual humour and jokes from the UK disability arts movement | Visual medical humanities and histories of disability | She/her | remembering how to be Online
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RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR.
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR.
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
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Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900!
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900!
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
At at Birkbeck Cinema this Wednesday, very excited to screen Andrew Kötting’s Mapping Perception. Book here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
At at Birkbeck Cinema this Wednesday, very excited to screen Andrew Kötting’s Mapping Perception. Book here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*.
We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*.
We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
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‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’
Colin Burrow on satire: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow on satire: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow · Let custards quake: Satire without the Jokes
To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of...
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August 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’
Colin Burrow on satire: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow on satire: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣
Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026.
#histmed
Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026.
#histmed
Annual Book Development Prize Competition
Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) invites submissions to its Annual Book Development Award Competition. The Award Two awards of £2000.00 each will be given …
sshm.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣
Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026.
#histmed
Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026.
#histmed
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Reflecting on their work in the Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, Folker et al offer real insight into theory-building within and through the dynamics (& difficulties) of engaged critical medical humanities research
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Engaged Medical Humanities—A Framework for Knowledge Production in Research Collaborations - Journal of Medical Humanities
In the field of medical humanities, there has been a general call to understand biocultural entanglements and to break down rigid distinctions between culture and health, as well as disciplinary bound...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Reflecting on their work in the Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, Folker et al offer real insight into theory-building within and through the dynamics (& difficulties) of engaged critical medical humanities research
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New CFP for a Topic Collection on Visual Medical Humanities with @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal.
Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline January 5, 2026.
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline January 5, 2026.
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities
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June 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New CFP for a Topic Collection on Visual Medical Humanities with @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal.
Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline January 5, 2026.
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline January 5, 2026.
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
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As cities across the UK reverberate with the sound of pots and pans to protest the starvation of Palestinian people in Gaza, a piece from the archive on the humble pot and pan as tools for protest by Matthew Kerry:
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
Radical Objects: The Pot and Pan
Matthew Kerry explores how the humble pot and pan have become powerful tools for protestors.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
As cities across the UK reverberate with the sound of pots and pans to protest the starvation of Palestinian people in Gaza, a piece from the archive on the humble pot and pan as tools for protest by Matthew Kerry:
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
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In the latest piece from the 2024 Medical Humanities International Summer School, Mercy Nqandeka and Rachel Cummings reflect on their contrasting research cultures and the implications for inquiry in the medical/health humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/21/i...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/21/i...
Insider/Outsider Research in London and South Africa
Mercy Nqandeka and Rachel Cummings reflect on their contrasting research cultures and the implications for inquiry in the medical/health humanities. This piece is part of a collection of posts from…
thepolyphony.org
July 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In the latest piece from the 2024 Medical Humanities International Summer School, Mercy Nqandeka and Rachel Cummings reflect on their contrasting research cultures and the implications for inquiry in the medical/health humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/21/i...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/21/i...
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Delighted this is now LIVE! CFP for a Special Issue of ‘Neurodiversity’ - towards a critical turn in neurodiversity studies via arts/humanities/social sciences - we want to hear from you!!
Exciting new CFP for a Special Issue of the OA journal, 'Neurodiversity' thinking through the critical turn(s) in #neurodiversity studies across the arts, humanities & social sciences.
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live!
We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩
@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social
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We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩
@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
May 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Delighted this is now LIVE! CFP for a Special Issue of ‘Neurodiversity’ - towards a critical turn in neurodiversity studies via arts/humanities/social sciences - we want to hear from you!!
Today in the archives: surveys of ‘public conveniences’ aka public toilets. This 1973 volume was amusingly concerned about Hull having their loos too close to their statue of Queen Victoria
July 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Today in the archives: surveys of ‘public conveniences’ aka public toilets. This 1973 volume was amusingly concerned about Hull having their loos too close to their statue of Queen Victoria
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June 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I'm currently with Dr Wade Berger trying to get a group of disabled museum educators to the ASTC conference. Both of us are currently jobless due to higher education cuts, but feel it's important to keep advancing this research anyways. Thank you very much for any and all help! gofund.me/54f249fc
Donate to Fund Travel for Disabled Museum Workshop Leaders, organized by Wade Berger
We’re raising funds to send a cohort of disabled museum educators to the … Wade Berger needs your support for Fund Travel for Disabled Museum Workshop Leaders
gofund.me
July 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I'm currently with Dr Wade Berger trying to get a group of disabled museum educators to the ASTC conference. Both of us are currently jobless due to higher education cuts, but feel it's important to keep advancing this research anyways. Thank you very much for any and all help! gofund.me/54f249fc
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The organisers of the UKDHHH outdid themselves today - what a brilliant day of talks, and a masterclass in accessibility
We are rounding off our day with two sessions of 15-minute presentations! The first session has papers from @tillyguthrie.bsky.social and @isabellelawrence.bsky.social #DisHist
June 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The organisers of the UKDHHH outdid themselves today - what a brilliant day of talks, and a masterclass in accessibility
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Eeeek this will be good'un! Happy publication day @slobogin.bsky.social ⭐ Essential reading for all medical history/medical humanities visual culture people.
It's publication day!!
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
June 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Eeeek this will be good'un! Happy publication day @slobogin.bsky.social ⭐ Essential reading for all medical history/medical humanities visual culture people.
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Another brilliant article I would add to this list is this collaborative piece on oral history and Section 28 - several of its contributors highlight the parallels between the demonisation of LGBTQ+ people in the 1980s and 90s and the relentless persecution of the trans community today.
April 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Another brilliant article I would add to this list is this collaborative piece on oral history and Section 28 - several of its contributors highlight the parallels between the demonisation of LGBTQ+ people in the 1980s and 90s and the relentless persecution of the trans community today.
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So exciting seeing this book up on the Bloomsbury website! It'll be out at the end of this year.
I co-wrote a piece on visual medical humor with @katiesnow.bsky.social and @lauracowley.bsky.social 🎭
www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-and-t...
I co-wrote a piece on visual medical humor with @katiesnow.bsky.social and @lauracowley.bsky.social 🎭
www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-and-t...
Art and the Critical Medical Humanities
This agenda-setting edited volume makes a forceful case for the contribution that art – its practices and its histories – can make to debates and developments i…
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April 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
So exciting seeing this book up on the Bloomsbury website! It'll be out at the end of this year.
I co-wrote a piece on visual medical humor with @katiesnow.bsky.social and @lauracowley.bsky.social 🎭
www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-and-t...
I co-wrote a piece on visual medical humor with @katiesnow.bsky.social and @lauracowley.bsky.social 🎭
www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-and-t...
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Super excited for this year’s IMH seminar series on “hidden experience” - on queer theory, memory, trauma, disability studies, sugar, politics and more! mailchi.mp/dbab179fbcc9...
IMH newsletter: September 2023
News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.
mailchi.mp
October 6, 2023 at 7:03 PM
Super excited for this year’s IMH seminar series on “hidden experience” - on queer theory, memory, trauma, disability studies, sugar, politics and more! mailchi.mp/dbab179fbcc9...
Introducing my research with this recent delight from the archive. By the UK Disability Movement artist Steve Cribb:
October 7, 2023 at 10:43 PM
Introducing my research with this recent delight from the archive. By the UK Disability Movement artist Steve Cribb: