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Rebecca Whiteley

@rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social

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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prints and books, materiality, sex and medicine! Author of Birth Figures (she/her)

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Aug 28

How. HOW. Are there still academic ebooks with no page numbers?! How.

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The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · Aug 15

🙌Call for Papers🙌
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026

Send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

Call for Papers. The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity. An Interdisciplinary Conference. 8-9 January, 2026
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
Proposal Deadline: 22 September 2025

What do hands reveal about us?
We invite abstracts for papers of 15-20 minutes, for presentation at our 2-day interdisciplinary conference, part of The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present, supported by UKRI.

We welcome presentations from multi- and interdisciplinary research fields, including Critical Studies, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM.
We encourage proposals from artists, makers and performers.
Image includes an illustration of magnetism, a Victorian man sitting under 3 hands, 2 of whom have lines of magnetic power emanating onto his head and shoulders

Please send abstracts up to 300 words, and biographies up to 100 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025
Read the full call at thevictorianhand.uk/call-for-papers-the-hand

Image features the 3 logos of Lancaster University, UAL and UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wonder if anyone tech-minded can help! I have two mac computers about 10 years old, both work fine and yet I've just discovered are now 'unsupported' by Apple and I can't update their OSs. Soon I won't be able to use key programs. Is there anything to be done?!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Jul 25

Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference

See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071

Please share widely!!

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Richard Bellis @richardtbellis.bsky.social · Aug 13

New article out today! 'The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable' focuses on how the illustrations for Matthew Baillie's morbid anatomy were made through collaborations with the artist William Clift and a team of engravers associated with the Royal Society. doi.org/10.1086/736874

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Sep 23

Want to know more about obstetrical models, paper dolls, or play in medical education? Check out my new article in Material Culture Review about these little guys!
journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Reminder that I am soliciting papers for my CAA 2025 panel "Anonymity in Art and Visual Culture."

📅 Deadline: August 29

Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · Jul 23

You can find the full description of the panel attached here, and at this link:

caa.confex.com/caa/2025/web...

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Looking at visual methods of providing anonymity, this panel seeks to explore the ethical and aesthetic vicissitudes and values of anonymity in art and visual culture. When an image's subject is deemed sensitive, those represented are often allocated anonymity, usually by covering the face or eyes. Visual anonymity can be seen as an easy fix for ethical questions relating to visual personal data – but what is the actual ethical, aesthetic, and interpersonal outcome of anonymizing a subject?
Several key themes related to visual anonymity are of particular interest. The face is treated as the seat of recognizability, but other body parts or traits can give away identity. Photography is the medium that is most frequently deemed to require anonymization, but other artistic and cultural media appraised as less “indexical” may slip under the radar of ethical concern. And artistic and gendered considerations have historically been taken into account while anonymizing, even ... more at link!

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Aug 9

The primary school teachers in my family describe the loudness of 3-6 year olds as a logical adaption to childcare/school environments where if they're not loud they won't be heard. Would be nice if they didn't bring it home though...

Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Aug 9

Putting this at the top of my reading list!

Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Mar 7

My little bookish heart is bleeding! I just opened a new book from an academic press far enough for it to lie open, and about forty pages have burst from their 'glue' binding 😭

Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Jan 26

A fantastic summary of a term I have been wanting to know more about for a while.
thepolyphony.org/2024/01/26/m...

MedHums 101: What is Crip Time?

‘Crip time’ is a conception of living with illness that many patients bring to their healthcare interactions, says Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril.

thepolyphony.org

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Jan 25

What are visual culture people using to keep track of their images? I love Zotero for references and I tried Tropy but it couldn't talk across my two devices so I had to give that up... I'm drowning in medical book illustrations!

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Dec 15

Yes I am, thank you! Planning a little trip for the new year

Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Dec 15

Does anyone know anything written about Gustave-Joseph Witkowski? Because I'm looking at his publication history and he seems too bonkers to be unstudied?? 👀

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Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · Oct 24

My (Mis)Conceptions project is collecting magical thinking during the trying to conceive experience. Do you have a story to share? Why not contribute it to future ttc communities? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trying To Conceive

All answers are completely anonymous but your answers will be used to inform the creative outputs and research for the project (Mis)Conceptions Read more about the project here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk...

docs.google.com

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