The Body in History | Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Career Researcher and Early Career Researcher Conference

Academic study is often concerned with the mind, with ideas, reason, and fact which are implicitly set against the messy, complicated realities of human embodiment. However, recent decades have seen a turn towards the body across the humanities and social sciences, a wide-ranging and dynamic topic. Alongside this ‘somatic turn’ in academia, contemporary culture displays something of an obsession with the body, its appearance, performance, and management. Moreover, even when our research does not directly touch on the body, we all have bodies, and our engagements with the university and archive as well as broader society are informed by our different experiences of embodiment.

 

The Body in History Conference will bring together Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers across disciplines interested in the history, representation, and experience of the human body and its environments. It will provide a unique opportunity to cross disciplinary divides, network, and share insights.

 

The deadline for abstracts has passed.

 

 

The draft programme of panels and speakers can be found below. Please note, the panel is provisional.

 

 

 

 

If you are interested in attending the conference please fill out the following the registration form. There is space on the form to fill out any dietary and access requirements, as well as anything else we might need to know. 

 

Registration is only open to UK-based attendees, and we cannot accommodate online attendance. Registration will close on Monday 1st June.