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CFA: Making Masculinity: Craft, Gender, and Material Production in the Long Nineteenth Century, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Special Issue
Originally posted on Dr Freya Gowrley:
CFA: Making Masculinity: Craft, Gender, and Material Production in the Long Nineteenth Century Guest Editors: Dr Katie Faulkner (The Courtauld Institute of Art and…
CFP: Pain and its Paradoxes (BMJ Medical Humanities)
The BMJ has issued a call for abstracts for its forthcoming Special Issue of Medical Humanities on “Pain and its Paradoxes”. The deadline for abstract submissions is 1st August 2017. Pain is […]
Recommended Reblog: ‘Man and Meat’ in Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
A fascinating exploration of the significance of meat in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Man and Meat: A Christmas Carol’s Cannibalistic Menace in Historical Perspective by Lydia Craig (Loyola University, […]
Medical Photography: Opportunities and Challenges
A thought-provoking reflection on the ethics of using (potentially sensationalist) medical photographs.
Call for chapter proposals: Literature, Trauma and the Self
Originally posted on h-madness:
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS–LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY: WRITING, TRAUMA AND THE SELF contact email: callforliteraturepapers@gmail.com Centuries ago, Aristotle fashioned a term that brought literature and psychology face…
CFP: Cultures of Anxiety
University of Bristol 8-9 June 2017 Although it is notoriously difficult to define, anxiety has long been theorized in a variety of fields, from philosophy to psychology, theology to […]
Suggested Reading on Objects & Emotions
Originally posted on Emotional Objects: Touching Emotions in History:
At the Emotional Objects conference, delegates repeatedly noted the difficulty of finding ‘textbook’ sources on the material culture of emotions. In response we…
Maritime Masculinities, 1815-1940
Originally posted on Maritime Masculinities:
The online registration page for the conference is now up and running! Please register in good time, and if you have any issues, please contact…
Joseph Bristow: ‘Homosexual Blackmail in 1890s London’
The Fitzroy Street Raid, the Oscar Wilde Trials, and the Case of Cotsford Dick Hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies When: Monday 24 October 2016, 7:30pm Where: Keynes Library, […]
C19 Mad Men 