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New blog Monday! Check out Halle-Mackenzie Ashby's blog 'Wholesome Places of Healing: Plantation Sickhouses and Medical Neglect' live on the website now bit.ly/3GLTlaZ #earlymodern #histmed

📣This week! We are very excited to be welcoming so many brilliant speakers to our 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World' conference this week, 15-17 May. There's still time to register your attendance through the link below #earlymodern King's History

Today’s the day! We’re so excited to be welcoming our speakers to King's College London for day one of our ‘Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World’ conference. We’re looking forward to hearing some brilliant panels over the next few days #histmed bit.ly/4mn1CT4

Our first panel is ‘Medicine to treat enslaved bodies’ featuring papers from Iamara da Silva Viana, Tânia Salgado Pimenta and Dr. Kristen Block #earlymodern #histmed

And big thanks to those on our second panel today: ‘Slavery, Medicine, Gender’, featuring papers from Katharine Paugh, Lorena Telles and Sasha Turner. Thanks also to our chairs from both panels, Jake Richards and Lily Freeman-Jones. A great first day with some brilliant papers!

Day two of the ‘Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World’ conference and we’re looking forward to our first panel ‘Race in ‘professional’ and institutional medicine’, featuring Matthew Daniel Eddy MATTHEW DANIEL EDDY 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social, Zachary Dorner and Simon Buck, chaired by Philippa Hellawell

We’ve just had our first round of Lightning Talks of the conference; big thanks to Akosua Paries-Osei Akosua Paries-Osei, Jason Irving, Laura Smith and Hannah Hjorth for sharing their work. Thanks also to Misha Ewan for chairing!

Our last panel of the day has been ‘Making Race: Anatomy’ featuring Maxime Guttin, Paul Wolff Mitchell (with co-authors Laurens de Rooy & Alana Helberg-Proctor) and Meghan Roberts. Thanks to all of today’s contributors #histmed #earlymodern

It’s the final day of the ‘Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World’ conference! We’re looking forward to some great panels today, as well as a second round of lightening talks

First up is ‘Making Race: Natural History’, featuring Claire Weeda, Melissa Reynolds, Sarah Maria Schober ad Kevin Siena, chaired by our PI @han

On to our second panel of Lightning Talks from Francesca Livesey-Stephens, Vicki Richardson, Xavier Reader and Letícia Maria da Silva Mattos, chaired by Meghan Roberts.

And now for our seventh and final panel of the conference! We’re thrilled to be hearing papers from Suman Seth, Sascha Auerbach and Teresa Göltl, with thanks also to Kevin Siena for chairing.

Thank you Hannah Murphy and the whole team for an absolutely fabulous conference!

Our final blog of the series is now live on the MMoR website, many thanks to Gutiele Gonçalves dos Santos for her post 'From Labor to Laboratory: Africans, smallpox vaccination, and the glass industry in Colonial Brazil' bit.ly/4dPbGjS King's History #earlymodern #histmed