News — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

Happy New Year & Book Recommendations

Read on for book recommendations from our community and events to come in 2024
4th January 2024

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Autumn Update 2023

Read our autumn 2023 update, including news on upcoming events
November 2023

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Museum Visit: The Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

Read Hannah’s write-up of our project trip to the exhibtion here
October 2023

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Christianity and racemaking: a conference report

Read Eli Cumings’ summary of our September 2023 conference here
October 2023

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Read Amalia Levi's blog on MMoR Summer School

Summer School participant Amalia Levi publishes blog post ‘Archives of Empires, Archives of Race: A Reflection on the 2023 Archives, Slavery & Race-Making Summer School’
October 2023

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Hannah Murphy speaking at IHR Seminar

Hannah is giving a seminar on ‘Medicine, the Archive and the Making of Slavery in Early Modern Barbados’ on 19th October 17:30-19:00
October 2023

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Autumn Blog Series

Our autumn blog series will be released every other Monday throughout the autumn term …and a reminder that our full summer series is available to read now! Each blog examines sources related to the history of medicine, slavery & racemaking.
September 2023

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Summer Update from MMoR

Read our 2023 summer update from the MMoR project including news on a new blog series, our summer school, and other events
June 2023

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RSA San Juan

On 6/7 March, Hannah Murphy and Eli Cummings travelled to Puerto Rico for the annual Renaissance Society of America conference.
March 2023

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Call for Participants: Archives, Slavery & Race-Making Summer School

Read our call for participants here
18th January 2023

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Call for Papers: Christianity and Racemaking in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Read our call for papers here
18th January 2023

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Goodbye 2022, hello 2023!

Read our summary of 2022, and what we are looking forward to as a project in the coming year
11th January 2023

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Hiring now

Come and work with us! We are hiring for our second post-doc/research associate at King’s College London to work on the MMoR project. Applications are open until 5th June 2022.

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Hannah Murphy speaking at Wellcome Seminar

Hannah leads an online seminar on ‘Medical Involvement in the Early Modern Slave Trade’.
30th Nov 2021

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Call for participants: PGR Research Posters

As part of our opening conference on 24th May 2022, we are inviting all interested PGR/doctoral students and participants the opportunity to design and display 'research posters' around relevant doctoral projects.

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Hannah Murphy speaking at Durham Seminar

Online seminar ‘Spectacle, Slavery, Race: Medical Encounters and the 'Languages of Blackness' in Early Modern Europe’
10th Nov 2021

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First project output

Hannah Murphy’s new article “Rewriting Race in Early Modern European Medicine" is now available open access
31st October 2021

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Visible Skin Exhibition

Renaissance Skin launches exhibition curated by Hannah Murphy featuring the work of Peter Brathwaite
10th Sept 2021

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UKRI FLF award

Hannah Murphy awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for Medicine and the Making of Race
15th Oct 2020

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