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Upcoming Seminar Series - 'The History of Surgery'

All seminars are 16:00-17:00 Dutch time. Online sessions are hosted on Google Meet. Please send an e-mail to James Kennaway to receive the link.

Programme:

• 20 november 2023 - Sally Fampton (University of Oxford): "A Cruel and Bloody Operation: Caesarean Section and Medical Morality in the Nineteenth Century"
• 24 January 2024 - Alanna Skuse (University of Reading): "Under the Knife: Pain and Ambition in Early Modern Surgery"
• 19 February 2024 - Thomas Schlich (McGill University): "Against Human Vivisection - Criticism of Surgery in Britain, the US, and Germany, 1880s-1914"
• 18 March 2024 - James Kennaway (University of Groningen): "English Flesh bears Operations better than French Flesh: Resilience, Degeneration and Race in Crimean War Surgery"

ERC Starting Grant for GCHH Researcher

Yuliya Hilevych

The Centre is proud to announce one of its members was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Yuliya Hilevych received this grant for her project titled 'Coping with decline: Comparative social-historical analysis of depopulation and community welfare in Europe, 1950-2022  (DEPOP)'. Together with her team, she will produce a first social history of depopulation in Europe. DEPOP will illuminate regional depopulation as a potent example of a slow burn crisis – occurring over extended periods of time. Our historical findings will help to better understand how and why some communities have been more resilient to the slow burn crisis of depopulation.

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