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'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.

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.

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Contagion Cabaret, Meet our Student Composers video

Interviews with local students who composed music around themes of contagion, medicine, and science.

Full video from Contagion Camerata

This is the full video from our Contagion Camera event from 2 February, 2018. See more at Contagion Camerata

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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.

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Reflecting on Victorian Light Night

Three key figures - Prof. Sally Shuttleworth, Ross Ashton and Karen Monid - reflect on their experiences of Victorian Light Night.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

Edited photograph of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s image of a nerve cell. Originally taken by Irene Tobón and posted on Flickr commons. Some rights reserved.

Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health

See the videos from our conference, Mind Reading: Adolescence, Literature and Mental Health

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Videos from the Conference 'Sound Talking'

See the videos from the day below

Events

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.

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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.

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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.

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