The double special issue of AFS Journal, Creating Feminist Futures: Methodologies for New Times edited by @katjungnickel and me, is really coming together! At this moment of multiple crises, it asks how feminist methodologies can make ethically and politically just futures 🧵 1/?

Out now! Our AFS Journal special issue on 'Wealth' edited by Prof Lisa Adkins How is #wealth a feminist issue? Read it here: tinyurl.com/yc4dz7zt #wealth #gender #inequalities #money #feminism

Lunchtime lecture alert! Come along to IMH on June 26 (12:30-13:30) to hear Elizabeth Stephens explore how images of working bodies in early 20th-century photographic motion studies reflected new ideas about efficiency and the productive body. More below 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/efficiency-a…

📢Call for papers! Reproduction and Speculative Cultures conference at Lancaster University organised by Dr Anna McFarlane. 🗓️ 24th Oct (in person) and 28th Oct (online). Deadline for abstracts: 9th Aug. More details available here: tinyurl.com/2p4pe4ws Pls RT.

.William Viney examines the projectification of academic research and argues for critical responses to the normalisation of casualised work cultures in medical humanities funding schemes thepolyphony.org/2024/06/18/med…

Really looking forward to discussing how images of working bodies in scientific management fuelled the emergence of productivity cultures at Durham Institute for Medical Humanities next week! Many thanks to @literarti for the invitation.

2024 Amsterdamska Award winner: Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge. Congratulations to Dr Nicole Shepherd and all contributors to this fantastic collection. easst.net/award/2024-ams…

Really looking forward to this fantastic symposium on public health in the premodern world coming up at Monash in August. Such a great initiative Australasian Health and Medical Humanities @prosanitate.bsky.social

Keren Hammerschlag Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Natasha Ruiz-Gómez Art History at Essex & @DrTaniaCleaves ask how studying representations of the human body on a global scale might expand, complicate & enrich the current field of #VisualMedHums @VisualMedHums

ISEA2024 is underway! Looking forward to presenting on the visual history and scientific imaginary shaping contemporary conceptualisations of the artificial womb with Ionat Zurr, Cristin Millet and Cynthia Niemeyer. isea2024.isea-international.org/welcome/

Hugely looking forward to this symposium! Check out the fantastic programme. You can join online if you want to hear my talk on some of the dogs and cats that have left their mark on modern queer history.

Many thanks to Angela Woods @literarti and Durham Institute for Medical Humanities for hosting my talk this afternoon, and everyone who came along and asked so many great questions afterwards! Looking forward to future collaborations.

The CFP for #AusSTS2024 is officially open! This year's theme is "(De-)Territorialising STS: Discipline, Place, Power." Conference will take place at ANU in Canberra, 18 - 20 Nov, co-hosted by ANU and TopEndSTS. Applications due 4 Aug aussts.wordpress.com/call-for-propo…

This is excellent news for the arts in Australia, and what a coup for the WA art gallery! Long live SymbioticA Oron Catts Ionat Zurr

📢🌍We are creating an accessible database to map the world's medical & health humanities research organisations, centres & institutions. Complete our survey by 1 August 2024 to make sure your institution is included! #medhums Find out more 👇 medhumsplatform.org/global-medical…

Thanks The Polyphony for the chance to write about the recent stellar symposium run by the Health Humanities Network at ANU Research School of Humanities & the Arts. A fabulous couple of days! Thanks also to Harriet Schwarzrock for letting me use photographs of her incredible plasma hearts for the piece 🫀✨

Looking forward to this great event tomorrow, which allows in-person and virtual attendance. Hope to see some Melburnian friends there! Australasian Health and Medical Humanities UQ Communication & Arts UQ News

Enjoyed my conversation with Toby Miller Toby Miller for his Cultural Studies podcast yesterday, who managed to keep asking questions while getting attacked by his cat. UQ Communication & Arts @HASSUQ Australasian Health and Medical Humanities

Happy to see my article critiquing the rise of productivity cultures, "Efficiency and the Productive Body: The Gilbreths’ Photographic Motion Studies of Work," is now out, and available via open access in Body and Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…