Past Events

Two of our project members, Dr. Amelia Bonea and Dr. Jennifer Wallis, will be presenting aspects of their research at the 41st Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, to be held in Braşov, Romania.

Dr Melissa Dickson and Dr Jennifer Wallis will be speaking about two moments of Victorian social and cultural anxiety in a panel entitled 'Inside and Outside Bodies: the Science of Micro and Macrocosms'

We are very pleased to announce the first three seminars in our Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series. Drinks will be served after each seminar and all are welcome.

On November 6, Professor Sally Shuttleworth's two research projects, 'Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives' and 'Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries' were launched at St Anne's College.

Our programme for Hilary Term 2015 is now announced, with four seminars taking place at St Anne's College.

Our programme for Trinity Term 2015 is now announced, with three seminars taking place at St Anne's College.

On 30 May Diseases of Modern Life will be co-hosting a workshop with fellow project Constructing Scientific Communities, on 'Working with Nineteenth-Century Medical and Health Periodicals'.

The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the number of medical periodicals available to the interested reader. Publications such as the Lancet and British Medical Journal are familiar names to many of us, still published and widely read today.

'Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals' was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded 'Diseases of Modern Life' Project and the AHRC-funded 'Constructing Scientific Communities' Project, both based at St Anne's College.

Last weekend the Drinking Studies Network held its second major conference, 'New Directions in Drinking Studies' at the University of Leicester.

The Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries and Diseases of Modern Life: 19th Century Perspectives Projects will be taking part in Oxford Open Doors 2015 organised by the Oxford Preservation Trust.

Our programme for Michaelmas Term 2015 is now announced with three seminars taking place at St Anne's College.

Our programme for Hilary Term 2016 is now announced with two seminars taking place at St Anne's College.

We would like to draw your attention to the following event, to be organized at the Wellcome Library & Maison Française d'Oxford on 7-8 April 2016.

In this two day interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the ERC project Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth Century Perspectives, we will explore the phenomena of stress and overload, and other disorders associated with the problems of modernity.

Conference registration is now open for Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, to be held at St Anne's College on 10-11 September 2016.

Our programme for Trinity Term is now announced with three seminars taking place at St Anne's College.

The Victorians' fascination with objects and things has proved equally fascinating to the field of Victorian Studies.

On 10th and 11th September, the Diseases of Modern Life team held its main conference, 'Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century' at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Our programme for Michaelmas Term 2016 is now announced with two seminars at St Anne's College.

On Friday 25 November, Professor Shuttleworth will be taking part in Fright Friday, an evening event at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford with a talk on Fear of Cats and Other Phobias.

Our programme for Hilary Term 2017 is now announced with two seminars at St Anne's College.

The Constructing Scientific Communities, Diseases of Modern Life and the Million Pictures projects are pleased to announce a special workshop, hosted at London's Royal Institution.

This one-day programme of talks and workshops seeks to explore productive interactions between literature and mental health both historically and in the present day.