ONE WEEK ⏰ - CALL FOR PAPERS! There's still time to submit a chapter proposal for our upcoming edited collection. Deadline: Sunday 30 November 2025, 23.59 UK time. More info: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/broadly-conc... Submit abstract: forms.office.com/e/csESr71mgv

There's still time to submit a chapter proposal for the BC edited collection! And we've updated the eligibility criteria, so anyone can submit (you no longer need to have previous involvement with the network). Deadline for proposals in 30 November

I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs. Please share!

💫New Workshop #CfP💫 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social. #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️

I am delighted that my artwork was selected in the Postgraduate Pedagogies cover art competition! Volume 5, Issue 1 is now available to download postgradpedagogies.lse.ac.uk/6/volume/5/i...

We will be showcasing this project at the next @bconceived.bsky.social meeting on 22 May, 4-5pm UK time. Reserve your place: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efa462...

Tonight! The first event from the @bconceived.bsky.social Small Grant Scheme 2025. The Impact of Motherhood within Art Institutions at The Courtauld, 18.30-20.30. Booking Essential: courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the...

Next week! 5 May, 7-8.30pm UK time, @bconceived.bsky.social are hosting @hzeavin.bsky.social & Helen Charman in discussions about The Technological and Political Mediation of Motherhood. Sign up for this free, online event: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c25ec8...

Together with a wonderful filmmaker Rita Conry, I’ve made a documentary about birth control and mental health. It now has a permanent home and you can watch it online: www.girlsinfilm.net/videos/high-...

📣Registration is open for our workshop, 'Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future'! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential. ⏰ 2-3 July 2025 🏛️ University of Birmingham / online 👉 Register here: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ #histmed #histsex #medhums #sexualhealth #SRH #HIV

Next @bconceived.bsky.social event just announced! 5 May, 7-8.30pm UK time. In-conversation with @hzeavin.bsky.social & Helen Charman about The Technological and Political Mediation of Motherhood. Read more: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/t...

Don't mind me - just some more @bconceived.bsky.social updates! There's still time to sign up to tomorrow's event with @drbeldavis.bsky.social. If you're UK-based, then you'll also have a chance to win a copy Conceiving Histories 📖 register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3192db...

Fab time at the @hexhistory.bsky.social conference in Tampere, Finland. I delivered a paper on the panel "Reproductive Health Histories of Experiences: Case Studies from Britain and British India" alongside @karissapatton.bsky.social & Ranjana Saha.

Final day today at The Baby Show, talking with the public about the past, present (and future!) of maternal vaccination and infection health communication, thanks to the IMPRINT public engagement fund.

If you are UK-based, there is a chance to win a copy of my book (Conceiving Histories) by attending this talk on 18th March. It's a free online talk with @bconceived.bsky.social What's not to like? #BookGiveAway

Dear BlueSky, Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere. Discount code in replies 👇🏾

Deadline 6 March! Innovative, fully-funded PhD scholarship supervised by me (cultural histories of gender & sexuality & human-animal relations) & Karen Hiestand (veterinary & animal ethics). Located at Birkbeck's School of Creative Arts, Culture & Communication & the Royal Veterinary College.

👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University: Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory. 'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y

Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

Next @bconceived.bsky.social event is 18 March, 7-8pm UK time. We'll be joined by @drbeldavis.bsky.social who will be talking about her latest book "Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy Past and Future." Read more: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/c...

A really great and thoughtful article about motherhood, medical advice, and maternal responsibility mh.bmj.com/content/50/2...

We've just announced the successful projects for the @bconceived.bsky.social small grant scheme 24-25, for repro-related projects. Some really exciting stuff here, so check it out! broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/bc-small-gra...

In our winter issue, Carlo Sariego discusses reproductive outsiders and “the impenetrable and contradictory nature of state control over immigrant and migrant reproduction” (sub. req’d) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Welcome to the Victorian Hand project, funded by @ukri.org (2024-2028) & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & @medhistoryman.bsky.social with more team members to announce very soon! Stay tuned for updates about our research and engagement activities, as well as multimedia fun! Please follow and share!

Next @bconceived.bsky.social event is 24 Feb 7-8pm UK time. We'll be talking with Dr Karissa Patton, Interdisciplinary Research Fellow @biomedselfsoc.bsky.social about her @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early Career Award 'Reproductive Justice, Healthcare & History' Read more: tinyurl.com/yc3mya7p

📢 Just over a week left to apply for a PhD scholarship with us 🦋 Féileacáin-funded project on second trimester pregnancy loss 📅 Closing date: 14 Feb 🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy... 🙏 Please share if you can @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @lauralinehan.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

Back in July I was fortunate enough to attend this brilliant event at Edinburgh University. Read our blog post to find out what we got up to!

#CallForAbstracts alert! The Measurement Lab at the Platform are now inviting individual & panel submissions for their free, hybrid conference on #CriticalNeurodiversityStudies in June – variety of formats welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 🔗 tinyurl.com/cfa-cns-dire...

Don't forget that the deadline for the CFP for our next women and alcohol conference (Dangerous Pleasures) in Dublin is 13 January. Get your abstracts in asap. www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-... @drinkingstudies.bsky.social @dorotadias.bsky.social @lucycogan.bsky.social

Delighted to confirm that I'll be taking part in @BirkbeckUoL Arts Week 2023 with a historical workshop entitled "Trials and Trepidation: Clinical trials during pregnancy" More details to be released, so watch this space!

TAKE PART IN RESEARCH I'm looking to speak with pregnant people from the North-East of England. Together, we'll be looking at historical messages about risk during pregnancy. 📅Mid-February 🧭Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne Learn more: divinworrymams.wordpress.com

A wonderful talk today with Prof Emily Jackson @LSELaw revisiting some of the themes from their 2001 book 'Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy x.com/MLE_DG/status/…

Yesterday I received a prize in the Gwynne-Vaughan Medal Competition, hosted by the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. Highly commended in the current student category. Thanks to my supervisors @drbel and Robin Basu Roy for your ongoing support 🌟

Spent yesterday pouring through the papers of childbirth activist Sheila Kitzinger at @ExploreWellcome - I wonder if there's anything I can do with this lovely marginalia 🐢

I'm incredibly excited to start working as a Research Assistant with @Emily_Baughan - already looked at some really fascinating papers at the Wellcome. Can't wait to see what we unearth! x.com/Emily_Baughan/…

Enjoying my secondhand copy of The Making of the Unborn Patient by Monica J. Casper. Particularly the annotations 🤯

CAN'T WAIT to attend this course with the @RCA - thanks once again to EHCN for supporting us. I hope this training will help @BConceived to develop an exhibition using archival materials in discourse with contemporary arts practice that further our repro-conversations x.com/BConceived/sta…

So excited @BConceived have been awarded @NNMHRmed funding to relaunch and expand our network - @jemma_walton I'm really looking forward to continue working with you and watching BC grow and flourish x.com/NNMHRmed/statu… tinyurl.com/bdh3b3me

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded Wellcome ISSF funding for the project ‘Divin’ worry Mams! Navigating mixed messages during pregnancy’ Under the supervision of @drbel, I'll be using archival material to talk with people from the North-East about risk during pregnancy

Spent the last week in Florence and fascinated (delighted and perplexed) by the images of the breastfeeding Virgin Mary. Does anyone know anything about breastfeeding at this time / these images? Would love to learn more

I'm looking to collaborate with a #midwife on a #PublicEngagement project based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Could this be you? Or do you know anyone who might be interested? 👇 Get in touch: [email protected] Please RT

Putting my finishing touches on the PPT for the 'Pregnancy Advice from the Archives' workshop with @CHASEMedHums - there's still time to sign up! - Thursday 14 July, 5-6.30pm (UK time) - Free to attend chase.ac.uk/events-1/medic…

Reading Spare Rib (issues between 1977-79) in the @britishlibrary - articles on abortion rights and access, and being able to walk at night without fear of rape and/or assault. Hugely depressing that we're still demanding these basic rights 45 years later...

A highlight from my archival research has been reading 1970s recipes for pregnant women. Here are some highlights from today - Brandy Egg Nog for "when you can't face solid foods". And we really did enjoy a mould...

Thank you to everyone who attended and spoke at the @BirkBeckArtsRes SHAPE conference today. Absolutely blown away and proud to be part of such a rich research community 👏

Final panel of the day is kicked off with @kinoniv and her exploration of cringe aesthetics - lovingly presented in comic sans

Fell behind on live tweeting as I was chairing 😅 but next we had a v. reassuring panel discussion on the PhD journey with @kinoniv, Eleanora Rossi, Ellie Myerson & Dr Agnes Woolley, with contributions from Dr Rhys Jones

1st paper from @EleanorFranzen - The Shape of a Story: the Magdalen House Tects, 1758-1777. Examining the shape and structure of tects from 18th C Magdalen House for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes

Great first session at the SHAPE conference with @danieljayregan discussing the importance of the arts. Zine making and collaborative poetry