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UCL Health Humanities Centre
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The UCL Health Humanities Centre draws together staff from different disciplines and departments engaged in teaching and research on matters relating to health, illness and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/health-humanities-centre
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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 9d
Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.

📅27 Oct, 2-4pm
📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN

Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour.

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The 1950s Shit They Want From Me: Tay-Vis and the Disciplinary Lens of Reproductive Labour
Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · 12d
Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany
23 October 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for the Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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UCL South Asia @ucl-cssa.bsky.social · Sep 5
Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940
25 September 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Sep 3
Charms & Experiments in English Medieval Medical Manuscripts
11 September 1-2pm at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Join this Historical Health & The Body Reading Group session for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Two drawings of skeletons from the early modern period, with bones and muscles numbered
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UCL Health of the Public @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social · Jul 15
🎙️ “The point of public health is to create a place where people can live life in their fullest extent…” @admbriggs.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social

In our latest episode of #PublicHealthDisrupted, we are reminded that public health is about enabling life, not restricting it.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jul 14
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
17 July 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
The article for this week's session is Heather Taylor's (2025) 'An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost': 'Non-medical' Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts.
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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Jul 11
Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change
14 July 10am-6:30pm online
Join us for a hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change.
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Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change
Join us for a hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change.
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Jul 10
Parental and Child-Free Activism
5 August 2025, 10am–12pm
Third session of the reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Justice at UCL. All welcome.
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Parental and Child-Free Activism
Third session of the reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Justice at UCL
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Jun 27
Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change
14 July 2025, 10am–6:30pm
A hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change
Join us for a hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Jun 20
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join at the Wellcome Collection for the Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
3 July 2025, 1pm-2pm
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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Jun 6
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join @historyfinn.bsky.social and Katherine Wills at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for their Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
19 June 2025, 1pm-2pm
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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Jun 6
Remnants of Catastrophe: The Materiality & Memorialisation of the COVID-19 Pandemic
12 June 6pm @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social
5 years on, what do we make of the material remnants the pandemic left behind & the memorials that have grown in response to its memory?
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Remnants of Catastrophe: The Materiality and Memorialisation of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Described by some as a ‘paradigmatic example of an Anthropocene disease’ (Antó et al.), COVID-19 presented the world with a catastrophe that, whilst itself was invisible, bore massive material consequ...
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Jun 2
CfP: Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change
14–15 July 2025 at UCL
🚨Submit your abstract by 10th June 🚨
Join this two-day interdisciplinary research symposium and sandpit, funded by an IAS Octagon Grant.
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CfP: Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change
Join us for a two-day interdisciplinary research symposium and sandpit focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change. Submit your abstract by 10th June.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · May 23
Sensory Health: Introducing the Health Humanities Creative Fellows
29 May 2025, 6pm-8pm
The UCL Health Humanities Centre is delighted to introduce the two new Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellows.
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Sensory Health: Introducing the Health Humanities Creative Fellows
The UCL Health Humanities Centre is delighted to introduce the two new Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellows.
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · May 23
Writing Histories of Abortion and Reproductive Health Today
27 May 2025, 10am-12pm
Second session of the new reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL
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Writing Histories of Abortion and Reproductive Health Today
Second session of the new reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · May 20
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
22 May 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
We will be discussing Liane Maria Bertucci's ‘Herbs, Roots, Amulets, and Prayers in the Practices of “Saint” Vicente and other Healers in São Paulo in the 1910s’
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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social · Apr 11
🌎 Join @ucl.ac.uk Geography: Lecturer in Geographies of Health 🌎

We're looking for a Lecturer to help us explore the intersections of health, environment, cities, and development.

Apply by May 5, 2025
🔗 Full details: tinyurl.com/ucl-hea

#GeographyJobs #HealthResearch #UCLCareers #HybridWork
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Apr 8
New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice
Students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages, from any university/institution welcome.
Session 1: Reproductive Justice and the Environment.
13 May, 10am @uclamericas.bsky.social
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New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL
This reading group invites students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages to consider interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to the study of sexuality, reproductive health, and...
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Apr 4
‘I have a kind husband, a beautiful baby, no financial problems and still I want to die’
Maternal Mental Illness in Letters, on the Radio and through Telephone Hotlines in 1970s Britain.
With Dr Fabiola Creed @uofglasgow.bsky.social
1 May 6-8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
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‘I have a kind husband, a beautiful baby, no financial problems and still I want to die’
Maternal Mental Illness in Letters, on the Radio and through Telephone Hotlines in 1970s Britain.
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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Apr 4
Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills & Cures
7 May 5:30-8pm
Azzedine Haddour examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria
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Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills and Cures
This lecture examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Mar 26
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
TODAY! 26 March, 1-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers (pilot event).
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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers (pilot event).
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Mar 7
Histories of the Welfare State
27 March 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm
UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Dr Emily Baughan, University of Sheffield, to give this lecture.
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Histories of the Welfare State
UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Dr Emily Baughan, University of Sheffield, to give this lecture.
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Feb 28
The Consequences of Shocking the System: Comparing Evolution & Disasters
3 March 5pm
Prof John Martin & Dr Rozana Himaz use their research in medical science & economics to explore how shock can affect people across a lifetime, future generations & even across millennia
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The Consequences of Shocking the System: Comparing Evolution and Disasters
Rozana Himaz, UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction and John Martin, UCL Division of Medicine, are chaired by Clive Cookson, Senior Science Writer at the Financial Times.
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Feb 28
📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences)
Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚
Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL
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IAS Early Career Network Workshop: Getting Published
This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Feb 19
The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field
27 February 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm
We are pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities.
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The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field
UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities.
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