Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940 25 September 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Charms & Experiments in English Medieval Medical Manuscripts 11 September 1-2pm at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social Join this Historical Health & The Body Reading Group session for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

🎙️ “The point of public health is to create a place where people can live life in their fullest extent…” @admbriggs.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social In our latest episode of #PublicHealthDisrupted, we are reminded that public health is about enabling life, not restricting it.

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group 17 July 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social The article for this week's session is Heather Taylor's (2025) 'An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost': 'Non-medical' Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change 14 July 10am-6:30pm online Join us for a hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Parental and Child-Free Activism 5 August 2025, 10am–12pm Third session of the reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Justice at UCL. All welcome. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change 14 July 2025, 10am–6:30pm A hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group Join at the Wellcome Collection for the Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. 3 July 2025, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group Join @historyfinn.bsky.social and Katherine Wills at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for their Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. 19 June 2025, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Remnants of Catastrophe: The Materiality & Memorialisation of the COVID-19 Pandemic 12 June 6pm @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social 5 years on, what do we make of the material remnants the pandemic left behind & the memorials that have grown in response to its memory? www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/...

CfP: Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change 14–15 July 2025 at UCL 🚨Submit your abstract by 10th June 🚨 Join this two-day interdisciplinary research symposium and sandpit, funded by an IAS Octagon Grant. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Sensory Health: Introducing the Health Humanities Creative Fellows 29 May 2025, 6pm-8pm The UCL Health Humanities Centre is delighted to introduce the two new Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellows. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Writing Histories of Abortion and Reproductive Health Today 27 May 2025, 10am-12pm Second session of the new reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group 22 May 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social We will be discussing Liane Maria Bertucci's ‘Herbs, Roots, Amulets, and Prayers in the Practices of “Saint” Vicente and other Healers in São Paulo in the 1910s’ www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

🌎 Join @ucl.ac.uk Geography: Lecturer in Geographies of Health 🌎 We're looking for a Lecturer to help us explore the intersections of health, environment, cities, and development. Apply by May 5, 2025 🔗 Full details: tinyurl.com/ucl-hea #GeographyJobs #HealthResearch #UCLCareers #HybridWork

New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice Students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages, from any university/institution welcome. Session 1: Reproductive Justice and the Environment. 13 May, 10am @uclamericas.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

‘I have a kind husband, a beautiful baby, no financial problems and still I want to die’ Maternal Mental Illness in Letters, on the Radio and through Telephone Hotlines in 1970s Britain. With Dr Fabiola Creed @uofglasgow.bsky.social 1 May 6-8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills & Cures 7 May 5:30-8pm Azzedine Haddour examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group TODAY! 26 March, 1-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers (pilot event). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Histories of the Welfare State 27 March 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Dr Emily Baughan, University of Sheffield, to give this lecture. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Consequences of Shocking the System: Comparing Evolution & Disasters 3 March 5pm Prof John Martin & Dr Rozana Himaz use their research in medical science & economics to explore how shock can affect people across a lifetime, future generations & even across millennia www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences) Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚 Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field 27 February 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm We are pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field 27 Feb 6:15–7:30 pm UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢Calling all UCL ECRs & PhDs in A&H and SHS 📢 (if you are not in A&H or SHS you just need to find a suitable collaborator who is!) The IAS Octagon Grant is open for applications 🎉🙌🏽 Apply by 24 Feb - get writing! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellowship in Health Humanities Apply by 16 Feb 2025 We invite an artist / writer to develop their creative practice on a theme related to the health humanities. We're offering £5,000 to work on a project linked to our core research themes. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

“In the beginning was the chaplaincy”: the religious origins of the medical humanities, 1960-1980 23 January 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm We are pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the first in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Thinking with Sunaura Taylor’s disabled ecologies This event brings together academic & practice-based reflections on reproductive, environmental, & disability (in)justice in Colombia 13 February, 5.30 - 7pm, online only Register here ▶️https://shorturl.at/eCaKz

Join the online open evening coming up for the MA Health Humanities and MA Philosophy Politics and Economics of Health Monday January 20th 2025, 17:30 GMT (UK time) Programme directors for both MAs will introduce you to the programs and answer your questions. app.geckoform.com/events-embed...

Lunch Hour Lecture | Social prescribing: ground-breaking or gimmicky? 4 March 1-2pm Prof Daisy Fancourt discusses the UK's social prescribing initiative, its widespread adoption and the ongoing debate about its effectiveness & potential to exacerbate health inequalities www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

We're delighted to welcome @healthhistory.bsky.social, who's giving his paper 'Six Misconceptions about Modern Medicine that Historical Research Undermines', this Thursday, 28th Nov! Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-we-nee.... In person only.