UCL Health Humanities Centre

Symposium: Autopathography Beyond Narrative Closure Some experiences don’t behave; they stay unruly, refuse to settle & don’t fit neatly into linear stories. This symposium looks at how lived experiences of physical and/or mental health are approached ...

Symposium: Autopathography Beyond Narrative Closure
12 March 6:30-8:30pm
Some experiences stay unruly, refuse to settle & don’t fit neatly into linear stories. This event looks at lived experiences of physical/mental health when they resist coherence & narrative closure
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All good things come to an end It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS.

We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026.

Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗

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Drawing the Child’s Mind: Visual Tools in Psychology (1890–1960) Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Dr. Camille Jaccard (IAS Visiting Research Fellow), who will explore the history of observation, screening and treatment techniques in child psychiatry, with p...

Drawing the Child’s Mind: Visual Tools in Psychology (1890–1960)
12 Feb 6:15-7:30pm
Join Dr Camille Jaccard (@ucl-ias.bsky.social VRF) to explore history of observation, screening & treatment techniques in child psychiatry, esp. children’s drawings & projective tests.
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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'.

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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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...

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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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...

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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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.

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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'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.

'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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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...

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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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.

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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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.

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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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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‘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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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

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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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).

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).
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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.

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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Post for a November 13, 6:15 PM event at University College London for Alison Bashford's book "Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic" featuring an image of the book cover and praise from historians Janet Browne, Simon Schaffer, and David Stack. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/nov/biometrics-and-palmistry-ucl-story

#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

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.

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.

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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Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health)

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)
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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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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Two drawings of skeletons from the early modern period, with bones and muscles numbered

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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🎙️ “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.

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

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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Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change Join us for a hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change.

Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change
14 July 10am-6:30pm online
Join us for a hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change.
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Parental and Child-Free Activism Third session of the reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Justice at UCL

Parental and Child-Free Activism
5 August 2025, 10am–12pm
Third session of the reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Justice at UCL. All welcome.
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