Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Hannah Murphy
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So dramatic! This was such a stimulating and generative event - have been turning over grains, practices, ephemera, voices, silences, and the difficult negotiation between the whispers of interiority and the loudness of structure all weekend...
Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'.
Further details and how to sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...
Sprinkling a little #EarlyModern and #HistSTM over this, as I forgot in my earlier excitement....
One of a number of *fully-funded* PhD studentships associated with our new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery and War. I'll be co-supervising with the Centre director, Maeve Ryan: an interdisciplinary collaboration with War Studies. PlHappy to answer questions/offer advice!
🗃️#EarlyModern
I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!
Hannah Murphy
The English Historical Review
Some fun reading for the week
Hannah Murphy
How to do #history when there are no sources?🤔—in person April symposium @stjohnsox.bsky.social with @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social & @academic.oup.com + John Arnold, @hsmurphy.bsky.social, Jonathan Saha, Miranda Spieler & Tess Wingard across many periods & geographies. Free, but book👇!
CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'.
We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs.
Deadline: 7th April
Full details below.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409
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To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...
Brodie Waddell
Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o
