Keynote Lecture | Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Body in History Network
Keynote Lecture: Professor Helen King on Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Friday 28 November 2025, 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Learning Centre (Room 00.018), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
All welcome
Esteemed classicist and historian Professor Helen King will discuss her new book Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies (2024). Professor King will explore how she tackled such a vast, challenging, and both deeply personal and political topic, as well as discussing how to write about the history of the body for a general audience.
Biography:
Professor Helen King is a classicist, historian, and advocate for the medical humanities. Her works include Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece (1998), The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty (2004), and most recently Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies (2024), which she will be discussing in this talk.
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