Cover image of a male hospital in-patient looking directly at the camera, a smiley face tattoo exposed on his arm.
Our edited volume Sick Jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body is almost here! It's up on the Manchester University Press website for preorders, ahead of its publication this September 🤩 🥳 📣 📖
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Our edited volume _Sick Jokes_ is officially on the
@manchesterup.bsky.social website!!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/
If you're interested in loneliness and epistemic injustice, I'm giving a talk about my book project next week!
All the way back and all the way down: epistemic injustice and the history of loneliness
30/03/2026, 1pm - 2:15pm.
epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-seminar...
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NEW CfP! 🌈🎓
📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space
8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland
If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you!
Deadline 31 March
www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
thank you! 😀
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A sneak peak of our new book, Sick Jokes, which shares some of the best medical humanities research happening around visual humour & health! It's been so great to work on this w/ our contributors. On the @manchesterup.bsky.social website come spring 🌱 @slobogin.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social
Front cover of the book with artwork detail from "Surviving: COVID-19" by Ruth Cuthand.
🥳 New publication! Art & the Critical Medical Humanities is now online, fully open access. Thrilled to have co-written “Punchlines and power: visual humour as a disruptive tool for the critical medical humanities" w. @slobogin.bsky.social & Laura Cowley: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models:
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
Dubliners— this is today! 4.30pm, John Henry Newman building ⬇️
On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
THIS IS IT!
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
For the weekend crowd: CFP for online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*, deadline for abstracts Monday 6 October 💫
***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025***
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️
📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar -
lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢
Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social
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Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
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📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭
(📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
The white cis body as the default setting for ‘human’? @nursingclio.bsky.social has published an interview I did with the curator of a new exhibition nursingclio.org/2025/07/23/u...
News from last year, but a good reminder that there are many satirical prints in this collection ☺️
A cardboard sheet with 18 tins of foreign bodies attached to it 1. - 12.: Halfpennies 13. Shilling 14. Florin 15. Button 16. Whistle 17. Chicken bone 18. Flakes of enamel.
This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.
Congratulations Hardeep, how cool!
Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings
No way! 🤩
