Dr Ranjita Dhital, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice (University of Reading), Principal Investigator of ‘Architecture of Pharmacies – Co-designing Pharmacy Spaces’: Pharmacy Research UK Leverhulme Fellowship (2018-2020), £44,972. Architecture of Pharmacies is an…Read More >
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Luigi Groto: A blind author and prophet in sixteenth-century Italy, by Laura Carnelos
Dr Laura Carnelos, Collections Research Assistant in Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading, draws on her postdoctoral work at the University of Venice to illuminate the experience of a famous…Read More >
Global Health Humanities Workshop 2019
This workshop, organised by Dr Rohan Deb Roy (co-director of the University of Reading’s Centre for Health Humanities), examines how biomedicine was received, reinterpreted and transformed in the non-western world in the…Read More >
Facial Prejudice: the Last Taboo? By Marjorie Gehrhardt
Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt, lecturer in 20th century French history, tells us about a recent event she organised on experiences and representations of facial differences. From The Phantom of the Opera to James…Read More >
Workshop on the fabric of the human body
On the 7 and 8 November, the Centre for Health Humanities teamed up the University’s Arts Strategy, and was supported generously by the Heritage and Creativity Institute for Collections, in…Read More >
Call for Papers: Disease & Ease, 1500-1800
University of Reading Conference, 1-2 July 2020 [Please note that the original dates for this conference were 3-4 July 2019, but one of the conference organisers has since found out…Read More >
The Aged Patient in Early Modern England
Amie Bolissian Mcrae provides a tantalising glimpse into the subject of her new Wellcome Trust-funded PhD project, ‘The Aged Patient in Early Modern England’. The PhD builds on her MA dissertation, which was awarded…Read More >
Sickly Smells & Putrid Potions
By Hannah Newton Ever wondered what it would be like to live at a time before antibiotics, anesthetics, and x-rays? Last month, a group of 7-10-year-olds were invited to find…Read More >
Tweeting from the Grave: Sickness and Survival in the 17th Century
By Hannah Newton My favourite thing about being a historian is reading other people’s diaries. I began to realise this at the tender age of eight, when our teacher asked…Read More >
Artistic Practice, Health Humanities and Collections: workshop 4 May 2018
Miranda Laurence, University of Reading Arts Development Officer It’s quite difficult to describe the frisson that went around the room as everyone realised that, in front of them, to look…Read More >