Katie Snow
@katiesnow.bsky.social
Researching bodies across the medical humanities.
Book on breasts in caricature and satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers.
Wellcome postdoc @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures project 🥃
Book on breasts in caricature and satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers.
Wellcome postdoc @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures project 🥃
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I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models:
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
The Epistemic Determinants of Health
Health and illness are significantly determined by knowledge and its communication. At first glance, this might seem obvious; people use healthcare systems when they suspect that something might be wr...
bci-hub.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models:
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
bci-hub.org/documents/ep...
Dubliners— this is today! 4.30pm, John Henry Newman building ⬇️
Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Dubliners— this is today! 4.30pm, John Henry Newman building ⬇️
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On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025
Dr Brandy Schillace
Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
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THIS IS IT!
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
THIS IS IT!
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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For the weekend crowd: CFP for online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*, deadline for abstracts Monday 6 October 💫
Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
For the weekend crowd: CFP for online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*, deadline for abstracts Monday 6 October 💫
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***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025***
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️
September 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025***
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️
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📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar -
lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢
Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...
lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢
Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...
Critical Approaches to Like and Dislike in Medicine, Law, and Society
Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society: University of Bristol
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
📢 I'm thrilled to announce the full - and stellar -
lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢
Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...
lineup for our upcoming symposium on critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society! 📢
Bristol Uni, 15th October - register (for free) below!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-a...
Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
September 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project!
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...
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The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
docs.google.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
July 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
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A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭
(📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
(📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭
(📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
(📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
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The white cis body as the default setting for ‘human’? @nursingclio.bsky.social has published an interview I did with the curator of a new exhibition nursingclio.org/2025/07/23/u...
“Unseen: Inequality in Medicine” at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden
The medical field has long treated the 70 kg white male body as the norm — an assumption that continues to shape healthcare today. From March 7, 2025 to March 8, 2026, the award-winning Rijksmuseum…
nursingclio.org
July 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The white cis body as the default setting for ‘human’? @nursingclio.bsky.social has published an interview I did with the curator of a new exhibition nursingclio.org/2025/07/23/u...
News from last year, but a good reminder that there are many satirical prints in this collection ☺️
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
News from last year, but a good reminder that there are many satirical prints in this collection ☺️
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This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.
July 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.
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Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings
From untangling the evolutionary roots of plant variation to how medieval nuns mastered the art of credit, we’ve had some fascinating applications for this year’s Early Career Fellowship scheme. The Trust is pleased to announce 152 Fellowships in this round. Congratulations to the 2025 cohort!
June 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings
Eeeek this will be good'un! Happy publication day @slobogin.bsky.social ⭐ Essential reading for all medical history/medical humanities visual culture people.
It's publication day!!
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
June 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Eeeek this will be good'un! Happy publication day @slobogin.bsky.social ⭐ Essential reading for all medical history/medical humanities visual culture people.
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Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities
mh.bmj.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
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3 year postdoc in STS of health (“health” and “STS” construed broadly) here at Egenis! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I was chairing the first panel so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that the papers by Vanessa Höving, Marta Ramón García, Katie Snow were all brilliant... here's Marta in our very fancy room at the Museum of Literature #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures
June 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I was chairing the first panel so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that the papers by Vanessa Höving, Marta Ramón García, Katie Snow were all brilliant... here's Marta in our very fancy room at the Museum of Literature #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures
What a gorgeous setting for the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social women and alcohol #dangerouspleasures conference this week 🌸
June 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
What a gorgeous setting for the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social women and alcohol #dangerouspleasures conference this week 🌸
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June 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Medicine AND quilting in GLAM?? if it wasn't in London this would be my dream job 😭
Job Alert! We're hiring a 3-year F/T Public Engagment Fellow based @lcflondon.bsky.social to lead our exciting programme of activities. We're looking for collegial & creative people with expertise in History, Galleries, Archives, Libraries, or Museums. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI861/p...
Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) at University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion
Don't miss your chance to apply for professional services job openings, including the Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) role, listed on jobs.ac.uk. Start your search now!
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Medicine AND quilting in GLAM?? if it wasn't in London this would be my dream job 😭
A welcome new publication yesterday for those teaching medical humanities in UK medical schools, asking some key questions. Using visual body histories with medical students at Exeter and Plymouth (both recognised as innovators in the field) has been by far my most radical and rewarding teaching.
New co-authored article out about #medhums teaching in the UK. Grateful to my co-authors for making this such a seamless process! #meded
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Teaching humanities in UK medical schools: towards community-building and coherence - Monash Bioethics Review
Medical humanities teaching in UK medical schools has lacked cohesion, having developed opportunistically in different locations. Cohesion is necessary to develop an identifiable community of practice...
link.springer.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
A welcome new publication yesterday for those teaching medical humanities in UK medical schools, asking some key questions. Using visual body histories with medical students at Exeter and Plymouth (both recognised as innovators in the field) has been by far my most radical and rewarding teaching.
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Exciting new CFP for a Special Issue of the OA journal, 'Neurodiversity' thinking through the critical turn(s) in #neurodiversity studies across the arts, humanities & social sciences.
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live!
We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩
@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩
@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
journals.sagepub.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Exciting new CFP for a Special Issue of the OA journal, 'Neurodiversity' thinking through the critical turn(s) in #neurodiversity studies across the arts, humanities & social sciences.
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social
Editors @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social @danielpjones.bsky.social & @dramypearson.bsky.social