Gender, Subjectivity, and “Everyday Health” in the Post-1945 World

ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES, JANUARY-JUNE 2021

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Our online seminar series explores the question: What is the history of “everyday health” in the postwar world, and where might we find it? Papers examine how gender, alongside class, ‘race’, and sexuality, mediated experiences of health and wellbeing; interrogate the reasons for differences in gendered experiences in different regions of the world; critically assess the concept of ‘everyday health’; and develop and share methodologies that allow us to write histories of subjectivity and embodiment from the bottom-up.

We are delighted that Professor Carol Tulloch will deliver a keynote lecture titled ‘… and breathe. Style narratives, composing a life and wellbeing’. Professor Tulloch says: ‘My writing and curatorial practice chimes strongly with the concerns of this conference. I have primarily studied the style narratives of people of the African diaspora, the way people dress themselves, and its expanded meaning in other areas of a life. At the core of this approach is my insistence to see ‘difference’ as agency not ‘an issue’, action I have applied to studies of women’s lives regardless of race, class and geography. This keynote will incorporate references to past and current research, as well as thinking that has arisen for me during the unchartered months since March 2020.’

Carol Tulloch, writer and curator, is Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism at the University of the Arts London based at Chelsea College of Arts. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her recent work includes ‘Style Activism: The Everyday Activist Wardrobe of the Black Panther Party and Rock Against Racism Movement’ in Fashion and Politics (2019),co-editor of The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday life After Bourdieu (2018), the exhibition Jessica Ogden: Still (2017), the monograph The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora (2016), the book and exhibition Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism (2015). http://professorcaroltulloch.com/

SEMINAR SERIES PROGRAMME

Keynote Lecture 11 January 2021           4.30-6.00pm        

Professor Carol Tulloch, (University of the Arts London)

‘… and breathe. Style narratives, composing a life and wellbeing’

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Session 1 11 January 2021            2.00-4.00pm

The ‘Beautiful’ Female Body as a Site of Health, Pleasure and Harm in Modern Britain

Katrina-Louise Moseley, Peder Clark, Fabiola Creed, and Louise Morgan

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Session 2 18 January 2021          1.00-2.00pm

Visibility and Invisibility in Histories of Masculinity and Sexuality

Katherine Jones and Georgia Grainger

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Session 3 1 February 2021           6.00-7.00pm        

Emotional Health, Sexual Subjectivity, and Self-Realisation

Lucy Brown and Teri Chettiar

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Session 4 15 February 2021         2.00-3.30pm

The State, Healthcare Systems, and Subjectivities

Stephanie Snow & Angela Whitecross, Martin Moore, and Gareth Millward

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Session 5 1 March 2021               1.00-2.00pm

Scientific Vs Experiential Knowledge: Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Health Campaigns

Evangelia Chordaki and Hannah Elizabeth

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Session 6 15 March 2021             1.00-2.00pm        

Disability, Embodiment, and Identity

Beckie Rutherford and Christina Lee

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Session 7 29 March 2021             6.00-8.00pm       

Centring Women in Care from Birth to Death

Whitney Wood, Holly Ashford, Karissa Patton, and Deborah Streahle

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Session 8 12 April 2021            1.00-2.00pm        

Love, Guilt, and Anxiety: Parent-Child Relationships in Post-War Britain

Hannah Charnock and Richard Hall

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Session 9 26 April 2021              6.00-7.00pm       

Youth, Sexual Knowledge, and Sexual Pleasure in the 1980s

Lucy Robinson and Rachel Thomson & Rosie Gahnstrom

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Session 10 10 May 2021 2.00-4.00pm       

Bodies in History, Embodied History, and Embodying History

Hannah Froom, Tracey Loughran, Kate Mahoney, and Daisy Payling

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Session 11 24 May 2021              1.00-2.00pm

Finding and Listening to Marginalised Voices: Approaches from Archives to Co-Production

Caroline Rusterholz and Jessica Hammett

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Session 12 7 June 2021                6.00-7.30pm       

Speaking and Listening: Making Meaning in ‘Everyday’ Health Experiences

Yuliya Hilevych, Chelsea Saxby, and Jill Kirby

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Session 13 14 June 2021              2.00-3.00pm       

‘I Felt as Though I Was Finally Myself Again’: Hair, Selfhood, and Wellbeing

Mark Anderson and the Body, Self and Family project team

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Session 14 14 June 2021 3.30-5.30pm

Zine-Making Workshop with Lu Williams (Grrrl Zine Fair)

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Session 15 14 June 2021              5.45-6.00pm

Seminar Series Wrap-Up

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