FRIDAY 5 MARCH 2010, 09.00 – 15.30

Arts & Humanities Conference room, James Callaghan Building

 

09.00-10.30 Welcome & Session 1: Literature, Medical Practice, and the Gendered Body

 

Dr Alison Williams

Department of Modern Languages

Swansea University

THE MONK’S GUIDE TO BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD: OBSTETRICS AND PAEDIATRICS IN RABELAIS.

 

Dr Dan Healey

Department of History & Classics

Swansea University

THE BODY OF THE GULAG PATIENT: GULAG MEDICINE, SIMULATION AND “DRAMATOLOGICAL” CONTESTS

 

10.30-10.45: Coffee

 

10.45-12.15 Session 2: Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex* (And How Knowing Will Change You)

 

Julia Cutmore

School of Medicine

SEXUALITY IN PHILIP ROTH’S NOVELS ABOUT AGEING AND DEATH.

 

Dr Lutz Sauerteig

Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease

Durham University

 ‘PUBERTY AND THE MAKING OF GENDER: EXPLAINING BODILY CHANGES IN SEX EDUCATION (1900-1980)’

 

 

12.15 – 13.15 Lunch

 

13.15-15.15 Session 3: Spectacular Illness and Disability in History

 

Dr Irina Metzler

Honorary Research Fellow

Department of History & Classics

Swansea University

DISABILITY AND POVERTY IN THE HIGH AND LATER MIDDLE AGES: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTIONS OF PAUPERES, IMPOTENTES AND DEBILITATES

Dr David M. Turner

Department of History & Classics

Swansea University

‘PICTURING DISABILITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND’

 

Professor Anne Borsay

School of Human and Health Sciences

Swansea University

DISABILITY, GENETICS, AND GENDER IN ADVICE LITERATURE FOR PARENTS: BRITAIN, c.1900-1960

 

 

15.15 – 15.45 Wrap up roundtable discussion and close.

 

For further information, please contact Dr Dan Healey, d.healey@swan.ac.uk