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The UCL Health Humanities Centre draws together staff from different disciplines and departments engaged in teaching and research on matters relating to health, illness and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/health-humanities-centre
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Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice
This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'.
12 February 2026, 1pm-2pm
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Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice
This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance
13 Feb 12-1pm
This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data can drive, represent & inform musical expression across music making and education domains.
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The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance
This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data—such as muscle activity, movement, and physiological signals—can function to drive, represent and inform musical expression across music making...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Looking at Britain through health and healthcare: changes and challenges
12 Feb 5:30pm
A panel of experts discuss the most urgent health issues facing Britain today, and how our understanding of health and healthcare is changing in the contemporary landscape.
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Looking at Britain through health and healthcare: changes and challenges
The event brings together a panel of experts in the field of healthcare in modern Britain to discuss the most urgent health issues facing Britain today, and how our understanding of health and healthc...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Rewriting Race in Early Modern Medicine
5 February 1-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Rewriting Race in Early Modern Medicine
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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'Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth': a history of post-war psychiatry
UCL French & Francophone Research is delighted to announce the 2026 Noble Lecture with prize-winning French novelist Adèle Yon.
29 January 2026, 5pm-7pm
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'Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth': a history of post-war psychiatry
UCL French & Francophone Research is delighted to announce the 2026 Noble Lecture with prize-winning French novelist Adèle Yon.
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January 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health
2 Feb 6:15–8:15pm
@ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcome Susi Geiger & Théo Bourgeron to present their new book, which traces the long-wave movements between the pharmaceutical industry, its discontents and regulators.
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Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health
UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is delighted to welcome authors Susi Geiger (University College Dublin) and Théo Bourgeron (University of Edinburgh) to present their new book. Moderated by Professor...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:22 AM
The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s
29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm
We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.
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The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Prof Jonathan Bell (UCL Institute of the Americas), who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England
22 January 2026, 1pm–2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Hybrid Seminar: Urban Mental Health
2 Dec 12-2pm UCL & online
Exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being.
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Seminar: Urban Mental Health
An in-person and online seminar exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
‘So-called Puerperal Insanity’ Diagnosing Postnatal Mental Illness (late 19th-early 20thC)
27 Nov 6:15pm
With case studies from London & Liverpool asylums, Hilary Marland examines response of asylum doctors to debate about role of childbirth in prompting mental illness
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‘So-called Puerperal Insanity’: Diagnosing Postnatal Mental Illness (late 19th- early 20th century)
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Hilary Marland. Taking case studies from London & Liverpool asylums, this paper examines the responses of asylum doctors to debates about the role of childbirth in prompting mental illness.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Scent as Portal: a memory workshop
Nov 23 from 2pm to 4pm GMT
No.1 Poultry, London.
An interactive workshop and sensorial journey featuring guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises. With our Creative Fellow Claire Sunho Lee, and Jon Kempton.
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Scent as Portal: a memory workshop with Claire Sunho Lee and Jon Kempton
An interactive workshop and sensorial journey featuring guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises
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November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
3 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell
20 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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#London! Join Alison Bashford tonight, Nov 13 at 6:15pm, with @ucl-ias.bsky.social & @uclhhcentre.bsky.social as she discusses her new book, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #BookTour #palmistry buff.ly/Bw0sA38
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story
13 Nov 6:15pm-7:30pm
Join Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics.
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Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story
13 Nov 6:15-7:30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
Join our seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics.
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Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story
Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
11 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health)
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health)
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus'
6 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus'
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Scent as Portal: A Memory Workshop
24 October 2025, 2:30 pm–5:00 pm
Through a series of guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises, participants will explore how fragrance can stir memory and emotion and give form to the formless.
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Scent as Portal: A Memory Workshop
Through a series of guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises, participants will explore how fragrance can stir memory and emotion and give form to the formless.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.

📅27 Oct, 2-4pm
📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN

Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour.

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The 1950s Shit They Want From Me: Tay-Vis and the Disciplinary Lens of Reproductive Labour
Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany
23 October 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for the Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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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.
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Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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🎙️ “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.
July 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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.
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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM