'Such a Pair – The Twin Lives of Humans and Trees', Catherine Charlwood's Hay Festival Lecture Catherine won the 2019 ASLE/INSPIRE Literature and Sustainability Lecture Competition, giving her the opportunity to present her research at the Hay Festival. 30 May 2019
Along the Lines event and blog post ‘Along The Lines’ was an immersive, virtual workshop and performance that took place in September and October 2020. 1 Feb 2021
Contagion Cabaret, Meet our Student Composers video Interviews with local students who composed music around themes of contagion, medicine, and science. 23 Jan 2018
Full video from Contagion Camerata This is the full video from our Contagion Camera event from 2 February, 2018. See more at Contagion Camerata 16 Feb 2018
Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and cultural determinants of health and well-being. 6 May 2017
Reflecting on Victorian Light Night Three key figures - Prof. Sally Shuttleworth, Ross Ashton and Karen Monid - reflect on their experiences of Victorian Light Night. 1 Apr 2019
Songs, Cakes, and Games: Thoughts on Performing, Baking, and Playing Our Research at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival On 29th September 2017, Oxford hosted the Curiosity Carnival – a city-wide public engagement event as part of European Researcher’s night. 3 Oct 2017
Stressed out? So were the Victorians. We didn’t invent the ‘diseases of modern life’; people in Victorian England worried about anxiety and overwork, too. 19 Jul 2017
The Contagion Cabaret: The Film (and Post Show Decontamination!) The Contagion Cabaret is a brilliant irreverent look at plagues and pandemics, past and present--and now it's also a film! 25 Jun 2020
Victorian Light Night goes to Dunedin, New Zealand Earlier this year, our Principal Investigator travelled with The Projection Studio to the University of Otago, New Zealand in order to share Victorian Light Night. 7 Sep 2020
Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award We are beyond excited to announce that 'The Victorian Speed of Life' project has won an University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award. 3 Jun 2019
Victorian Light Night: The Projection Video Having suitably intrigued you about the projection shown on Victorian Light Night and/or made you sorry you missed it, we are excited to share video footage of "Victorian Speed of Life". 3 Dec 2018
Video of Germs Revisited On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited. 20 Jun 2017
Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health See the videos from our conference, Mind Reading: Adolescence, Literature and Mental Health 3 Jun 2019
2 Jan Join us for a Contagion Camerata Local students have been working with Dr John Traill (University of Oxford) to compose musical pieces about science and medicine. For inspiration, the students attended the Contagion Cabaret at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival in September.
10 Sep Medicine and Modernity Conference Report and Keynotes videos 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. St. Anne's College
14 Nov UK Disability History Month Event: Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives The two talks will raise lots of ideas for discussion, including the impact of modern technologies in each period on the nature of work. Radcliffe Humanities