Current events

The events below are organised by the College of Humanities. You may also be interested in events in the general University of Exeter events.

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28 April 2021		Hippocratic Machines with Dr Maria Gerolemou Whereas there are certain studies on medical tools in antiquity, none of them deals with what is called in scholarship medical machine. In this talk, I offer first a brief overview of the Hippocratic notion of mêchanê by presenting three different types of machines a. natural machines; b. simple machines; c. complicated machines. Second, I discuss three examples of complicated Hippocratic machines (the Hippocratic board, ladder and the bench) and suggest ways of approaching them.. Full details	Add event
28 April 2021	16:30	Noughts and Crosses and Zeroes and Ones: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Digital Humanities Seminar Series. Prof Caroline Bassett (Cambridge). Full details	Add event
3 May 2021	17:00	Copper and human health in the Chalcolithic, the classical, and the age of COVID Copper and human health in the Chalcolithic, the classical, and the age of COVID Julie Laskaris (University of Richmond). Respondent: Colin Webster (UC Davis) To register, please visit: : https://ancientmedicineandtechnology.wordpress.com/. Full details	Add event
5 May 2021	15:00	Dr Angela Parker, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University Dr Angela Parker, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, will be talking about her forthcoming book, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority (Eerdmans, 2021).. Full details	Add event
12 May 2021	16:00	Zubin Mistry (Edinburgh), 'Monasteries, Medicine and Reproduction in Early Medieval Societies, c.700-1000’ Dr Zubin Mistry introduces to some of the sources for early medieval medicine, particularly in relation to infertility. Dr Mistry's work concerns medical knowledge and practice in early medieval societies. His interest in reproductive medicine has also led him to consider the political and social implications of infertility in the medieval world. Full details	Add event
14 May 2021	14:00	Change and Resilience in Antiquity session 2 You are warmly invited to Session 2 of the online seminar series on Change and Resilience in Antiquity, which is being hosted by Irene Salvo and Emma Nicholson.. Full details	Add event
18 May 2021	13:30	Theology & Religion Research seminar with Professor Mark Wynn (Oxford University) tbc. Full details	Add event
25 May 2021	17:00	The Roman physician and the knowledge of the patient The Roman physician and the knowledge of the patient Lauren Caldwell (UMass Amherst). Respondent: Chiara Blanco (University of Oxford) To register please visit: https://ancientmedicineandtechnology.wordpress.com/. Full details	Add event
26 May 2021	16:00	Research Masterclass: Interdisciplinary Research Research Masterclasses are directed towards the Centre's PhD students and offer expert discussion and insights into particular types of evidence or approaches. In this session, a panel of scholars from different disciplines offer insights into managing interdisciplinary research projects. How do you combine and balance different perspectives? And what are the most common pitfalls or issues encountered?. Full details	Add event
4 June 2021	14:00	Change and Resilience in Antiquity Session 3 You are warmly invited to the third session of the Change and Resilience Seminar Series, which is being hosted by Emma Nicholson and Irene Salvo.. Full details	Add event
9 June 2021	15:00	Dr Jon Morgan, Honorary Research Fellow tbc. Full details	Add event
24 June 2021	16:00	Navigating between abstraction and observation: using astrolabes, globes and mirrors in the medieval Mediterranean Navigating between abstraction and observation: using astrolabes, globes and mirrors in the medieval Mediterranean Divna Manolova (The University of York). Respondent: Karen ní Mheallaigh (Johns Hopkins University) To register for this talk, please visit: https://ancientmedicineandtechnology.wordpress.com/. Full details	Add event
25 June 2021	14:00	Change and Resilience in Antiquity Session 4 You are warmly invited to the fourth session of the Change and Resilience in Antiquity Seminar Series, which is being hosted by Emma Nicholson and Irene Salvo.. Full details	Add event
5 July 2021	16:00	Nutrition in ancient medicine Nutrition in ancient medicine John Wilkins (University of Exeter). Respondent: Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University) To register for this talk, please visit: https://ancientmedicineandtechnology.wordpress.com/. Full details	Add event
16 July 2021	13:00	Change and Resilience in Antiquity Session 5 and Roundtable You are warmly invited to the final session and the Roundtable event in the Change and Resilience in Antiquity Seminar Series.. Full details	Add event
9 September 2021		State-Led Inquiries as Political Devices: Lessons Learned and Lost from British Interventions, 1853 to the Present Day One-day virtual workshop hosted by the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict (CHVC) and the Leverhulme-funded Warnings from the Archive project at the University of Exeter. This workshop reflects a renewed interest in research into processes and politics of truth-telling and lesson-learning in the wake of state-sponsored violence, intervention, and transgression. The focus of the workshop will be on the political conditions and cultural norms that determine the composition and scope of inquiries and lesson-learning. Rather than treating inquiries as objective vessels of knowledge, we approach them as political devices. Our interests are in how contingent processes of investigation shape elite and popular understandings of the history and character of British military operations from the Crimean War to the present day. The outcome of this workshop will be a special issue with a top-tier interdisciplinary journal for History, Politics and International Relation. Full details	Add event