The Berlin Academy of Science is hosting an event with the Publications Excellence Group Topoi to clarify and make public the latest developments in digital publication. This could be of interest to members who are considering new ways to make their research public.
Category Archives: Events
Positive Birth Conference 2016
The Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research is hosting a one-day Conference on the importance of making an informed choice when deciding how to give birth.
For this conference that takes place at the City University of London on the 19th of July, 2016 tickets needs to be booked.
WHAI Conference 2016
The Women’s History Association of Ireland is hosting a conference on ‘Irish women and rural society, from medieval to modern’. The programme contains some pregnancy-related papers that may be of interest to members.
It is hosted at Queens University Belfast the 11-12 of March, 2016.
Aktuelle Positionen in Medizingeschichte
To commemorate the 60 birthday of Sigrid Stöckel the Institue for the History of Medicine at the Medical University in Hannover is holding a symposium on current trends in the History of Medicine. Of particular interest to members might be the talk by Johanna Bleker on the Feminine Genius and the talk by Gabriele Moser on Eugenic-abortion and sterilisation in Mecklenburg 1945-50.
When: 8th April, 2016
Where: Medizinische Hochshule Hannover
Deadline to confirm attendance: 23 March, 2016
Contact email: wolters.christine@mh-hannover.de
Home, Food and Family in WWI
Institutions and Ireland: Medicine, Health and Welfare
Institutions and Ireland: Medicine, Health and Welfare
A one-day conference exploring Ireland’s continuously evolving relationships with institution.
Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin
Friday 5 February 2016
Papers of potential interest to members include:
- Lloyd Houston (Brasenose College, Oxford), ‘The Wages of Sin is a Month in the Locke’: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease
- Professor Linda Connolly (UCC), The Construction of Gender and Motherhood through the Lens of Church–State Power in Ireland
- Sylvia Murphy Tighe (TCD), Contemporary Media Representations of Concealed Pregnancy: Shaming, Blaming, and Vilifying Women
- Keynote Address: Dr Rhona Mahony (Master, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street), The Birth of a Republic: Giving Birth in Ireland, 1916–2016
Reproduction on Film
Reproduction on Film: Sex, Secrets and Lies
Sexual secrets are powerful social capital, long subject to suppression, cover up, rumour, manipulation, investigation and exposure. In all the films in this fifth series of ‘Reproduction on Film’, lies, deceptions and conspiracies are exposed with life-changing consequences for individuals, groups or whole societies. Put on by the Generation to Reproduction programme with funding from the Wellcome Trust.
3 February – 20 March 2016, at the Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St Johns Street, Cambridge. All screenings at 7pm. All welcome. Admission free.
Series devised by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (jo312@cam.ac.uk).
Wednesday, 3 February: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
Introduced and with discussion led by Isabelle McNeill (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Director: Jacques Demy. Starring: Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. France/West Germany 1964. 91 mins.
An astonishingly beautiful and unusually operatic product of the French New Wave, Jacques Demy’s sung-through musical romance made Catherine Deneuve a star. It tells a bittersweet story of lovers separated by war, illegitimate pregnancy, and the social and economic pressures to marry, though not necessarily the one you love.
Co-presented by Alliance Française Cambridge. Free admission.
Wednesday, 10 February: Secrets and Lies
Introduced and with discussion led by Anandi Ramamurthy (Sheffield Hallam University)
Director: Mike Leigh. Starring: Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. UK 1996. 142 mins.
Leigh’s emotionally rich social observation documents the subtleties of the relationships in a dysfunctional family as its members’ secrets are revealed. After her adoptive parents die, an upwardly mobile, young black optometrist looks for her birth mother and discovers her to be working class and white.
Masculinity(/ies) – Femininity(/ies) in the Middle Ages
WHAT: Call for Papers Masculinity(/ies) – Femininity(/ies) in the Middle Ages Workshop
WHEN: 2nd – 3rd March 2016
WHERE: German Historical Institute Paris
DEADLINE: 4th January 2016
Ralph Samuel Memorial Lecture 2015
This year lecture at the Ralph Samuel History Centre is on politics of motherhood in 20th Century Britain.
Thursday 10 December 2015
6.30 pm (wine reception to follow)
Free of charge, no booking required, everyone welcome.
Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL
Women’s Deaths Remembered: Picking up the Threads, Remaking the Fabric of Care.
A multi-media exhibition, centred on a hand-knitted quilt is being launched on 25th November, 2015, in St. Laurence’s DIT Grangegorman, 6-9pm.
The exhibition commemorates the lives of the women who have died in our maternity services. In recent years, eight women had inquests, all of which ended in verdicts of death by medical misadventure. Continue reading
Perceptions of Pregnancy 