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Event poster for "Bodies at Work Bodies at Play" featuring illustrated wprkers with tools and a woman posing for tailoring. The text reads "Bodies at Work Bodies at Play History Graduate Student Association 14th Annual Student Conference Friday, 29 March 2019 University of Maryland, College Park H.J. Patterson, rooms 2114 and 2118 Panel 1 — Taking Teaching Seriously room 2114 9:30 am – 10:45 am A Discussion on Teaching Methods by the History Graduate Student Colloquium on Teaching Panelists: Kate Bailey, Sabrina Gonzalez, Stan Maxson, Lauren Michalak and Jane Polen Panel 2 — Corporeal Spectacles room 2118 9:30 am – 10:45 am Peter D’PRA, “Bodies on Display: Sideshows, Imperialism, and the 1904 ‘World’s Fair.’” Thera Nauman, “Animality and Boundary Crossing at the Paris Zoo, 1860–1900.” Jewels Wylie, “The Stigmatized Sexualized Feminine Form for Profit: Kinship Sentiments, Modern Family Structures and a Sense of Belonging.” Panel 3 — The Spectral, Digital, and Artisanal: Bodies Taking Form in Media room 2114 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Sophie Hess, “A News of a Haunting.” Bridget Sellers, “Plugged In: The Player Body, Avatar, and Game Assemblage.” Kate Sunderland, “Plaster and Power: Race and Representation in Studio of Edward V. Valentine.” Panel 4 — Under Construction: Fear, Desire and Bodies Gendered room 2118 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Lauren Scott, “Getting Out: Intersections of Queer Desire, Spirituality, and Black Escapism in Randall Kenan’s ‘A Visitation of Spirits.’” Austin Reece, “Erectile Masculinity in the Modern West: British Nationalism as a Response to ‘Erectile Dysfunction’ of Men.” Helen Jones, “Controlling Bodies: The Regulation of Gender Expression in 17th Century European and North American Communities.” Panel 5 — Reproductive Bodies: Medical Knowledge, Discipline, and Sexual Health room 2114 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Arielle Alterwaite, “Medical Imaginaries and the Emergence of Biopolitics on the Southern Plantation.” Emily Clark, “‘I had buried my heart towards’ this man: Laboring Women and Infanticide in New England.” Brooke Langford, “Discipline and Desire: Advertising Sexual Health in Nineteenth-Century New York.” Panel 6 — Body and Soul: Burial, Tombs, and Resistance room 2118 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Jonathan Allen, “Reproducing Holy Presences: Devotion, Materiality, and Sanctity in Ottoman Islam.” Emily Hemmerman, “The Genesis of the Medieval Trans Tomb.” Ruken Isik, “Gendered Necro-Political Resistance: Kurdish Women Funerals in Turkey.” 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Keynote Presentation Dr. Mary Fissell, The Johns Hopkins University: “The Extraordinary Affair: A Victorian Abortion Provider.” Panel 7 — Moving Bodies, Bodies on the Move: Transnational Brazil from the 1800s – 2018 room 2114 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Ana Paula Machado Mendes, “Se Fara Justiça: Liberated African Communities in Brazil (1848–1865).” Charles R. Chagas, “Tropical Noxious: Institutionalism and Exchange: Politics on the Move Between Brazil and the U.S.” Kayla Shuster, “Fielding Futebol and the Ethics of Morality in Brazilian Legacy.” Panel 8 — Bodies Alienated, Bodies Liberated room 2118 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Marcia Esteves Agostinho, “Black American Colonization in Brazil: Racially Colored Bodies in Motion.” Charlie Pahnke, “On ‘Longpowerlessness’: Farmworker Organizing in Florida from the 1970s–1980s.” Chris Hines, “Racialized Violence and Alienation: A Theoretical Dialogue Between Fanon and Aflaq.” Sponsored by University of Maryland College of Arts & Humanities Office of International Affairs The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies The History Department"
Hopkins goes to College Park
March 28, 2019

On Friday March 29, a number of Hopkins historians will be presenting at the University of Maryland College Park Graduate Student…

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Marta Hanson spoke at the National Palace Museum in Taipei 3/27
March 28, 2019

At the International Colloquium on Antiquarian Medical Texts, Traditional Medical Knowledge, and Their Circulation and Application, she presented a paper titled…

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Marta Hanson spoke at University of Michigan 2/12 and Vassar College 2/21
February 27, 2019

Kenneth G. Lieberthal and RIchard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Lecture Series “The Body-as-Technology in Classical Chinese…

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University news webpage (RUB) announcing a guest professorship, of Mary E. Fissell with a portrait header and site navigation.
Mary Fissell, Visiting Chair in International Gender Studies at the Ruhr Universität, Bochum
January 16, 2019

Mary Fissell is honored to be appointed the Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Gender Studies at the Ruhr Universität, Bochum….

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Purple workshop poster listing talks on sex and medicine: keynote by Mary Fissell, “Reading Sex: The History of a Popular Medical Manual 1684–1930”; talks by Tereza Hendl and Bianca Jansky on mHealth period and fertility apps; and Paula‑Irene Villa on cosmetic surgery biopolitics. Event date 17.01.2019, 12–16 Uhr, at LMU Munich’s Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Lessingstraße 2. No registration required. Logos for LMU and institute names at bottom.
Mary Fissell, Keynote Speaker for Symposium in Munich, 1/17/19
January 16, 2019

Mary Fissell is the keynote speaker at a symposium on 17 January  at the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at…

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Marta Hanson gave Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine, University of Cambridge 1/17
January 13, 2019

http://http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/112810 The lecture draws examples from her book manuscript, “Heaven and Earth are Within One’s Grasp: The Healer’s Body-as-Technology in Classical Chinese…

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Mary Fissell convening conference on The History of the Medical Book, 11/15-16
November 9, 2018

Mary Fissell is convening a conference on The History of the Medical Book at the Henry E. Huntington Library on Nov…

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Graduate Recruitment Postponed
October 30, 2018

A message from the department’s Director of Graduate Studies: The PhD program of the Department of the History of Medicine at…

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Jeremy Greene to speak on NYU Humanities Panel, 10/9
October 8, 2018

​Remote Care: From the “Electronic Patient” to Self-Tracking  When: October 9th6:00PM – 7:30PM Location: NYU Center for the Humanities, Fifth Floor,…

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Marta Hanson gave the inaugural talk in Harvard University’s new Asia Center Science & Technology Seminar Series 9/17
September 21, 2018

Dr Victor Seow, new Assistant Professor of East Asian Science and Technology in the Department of the History of Science has…

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