Workshop
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 4.00 - 6.30pm
Room 2.21, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (Level 2), Newcastle University
Dr Helen Bynum (Historian),'Tuberculous Lives - Conforming to the Stereotype?'
Dr
Helen Bynum, studied human sciences and medical history at UCL and the
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, before lecturing in
medical history at the University of Liverpool. She is the author (as
Helen Power) of Tropical Medicine in the 20th Century', (Kegan Paul,
1999) and co-editor of the 'Biographies of Disease' series. In this
series, she is author of Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis
(OUP, 2012).
Anna Dumitriu's work is at the forefront
of art and science collaborative practice, with a strong interest in the
ethical issues raised by emerging technologies and a focus on
microbiology and healthcare. Her installations and performances use a
range of biological, digital, and traditional media. She has exhibited
in Barcelona, Dublin, Taipei, and London. She is Artist in Residence on
the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project at The University of
Oxford, and holds Visiting Research Fellowships with the Dept. of
Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire, and with the
Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research.
Her exhibition 'The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of
Tuberculosis' premiered in London (2014) and has since toured to
Amsterdam and Berlin. It entails an artistic investigation into
Tuberculosis from early superstitions about the disease to the latest
research into genome sequencing of bacteria.
This
workshop is organised by the 'Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature
and Culture, ca. 1660-1832' project team, a Leverhulme funded
collaboration between colleagues in History of Medicine at Newcastle
University and English Literature at Northumbria University.
http://fashionablediseases.info/workshop.php
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