Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminar
Amy Austin, 'The Role of the Body in Transgender Identities, 1940-'60' Sarra Bouabdeli, 'Body as a Sign in Virtual Reality' To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk Please click here to see the...Read More >
Facial Disfigurement and Madness in Early Modern Britain: Reconsidering Arise Evans
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars: 'Facial Disfigurement and Madness in Early Modern Britain: Reconsidering Arise Evans', Emily Cock, Cardiff University To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk Please click here to see the...Read More >
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars: ‘A Cultural Biography of the Prostate’, Ericka Johnson, Linköping University To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk Please click here to see the other seminars in our...Read More >
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars
Janet Walls, ‘The Zodiac Sign as Body in the Late Medieval Period’ Tom Mills, ‘Medieval Leprosy and Bioarchaeology: The Body as a Physical Sign' Claire Collins, 'Secreta mulierum? The not...Read More >
The Past as Nightmare
The Past as Nightmare An interdisciplinary conference from the Centre for Health Humanities 6-7 September 2022, University of Reading (UK) Keynote speakers: Dr Ailise Bulfin & Professor Laurence Talairach The gothic...Read More >
Making Mutants: How and Why We Break Genes on Purpose
Reading Museum Blagrave Street, Reading, BerkshireJoin Dr Louise Johnson from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Reading to explore how mutation in genetic research is helping to identify and understand...Read More >
Sensation or Science? Monsters Ancient and Modern
Reading Museum Blagrave Street, Reading, BerkshireJoin Professors Emma Aston and Andrew Mangham from the University of Reading to explore how Classical myths worked their way into the monster science and monster stories of the modern...Read More >
Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity
Reading Museum Blagrave Street, Reading, BerkshireVideo games seem to teach us that monsters must be fought and can be defeated. Join Dr Jarosłav Švelch from Charles University in Prague to explore how this came to be. Do...Read More >
Under the Bed and Among the Dead: Monsters in Ancient Egypt
Reading Museum Blagrave Street, Reading, BerkshireLearn from Dr Jordan Miller from the University of Cambridge about the fearsome qualities of some famous (and lesser-known) supernatural beings from ancient Egypt, the situations in which ancient Egyptians...Read More >