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With the support of IAS, we are delighted to announce the forthcoming visit to ÌÇÐÄTV of Karen Barad, Myra Hird and Elizabeth Wilson. Each of these scholars have considerable reputations in the field of interdisciplinary science studies. In their distinctive ways, Professors Barad, Hird and Wilson are providing new theoretical approaches which have their roots in feminism and which challenge conventional wisdoms of ontology and epistemology in the study of the social and natural through which they draw upon, inter alia, quantum physics, bacteria and artificial intelligence. Their visit will be of particular relevance to colleagues in psychology, sociology, politics, education, history, health and medicine, philosophy and gender studies. We believe this will prove to be a landmark intellectual event.

• MONDAY 13 JUNE, 12:00-14:00, Gillian Rose Room (R3.25), Ramphal Building, 3^rd Floor: (including lunch): Interdisciplinary Research Symposium: An exchange and discussion based on the work of Professors Wilson, Hird and Barad
• MONDAY 13 JUNE, 17:00-18:30, Room S0.21 Ground Floor Social Studies Building: Public Lecture: Myra Hird, Elizabeth Wilson and Karen Barad In Conversation: What can feminism, the human sciences and the natural sciences each learn from the others?’  Interlocuter: Professor Steve Fuller
• TUESDAY 14 JUNE, 10:30-12:00, Room SO.28 Ground Floor Social Studies Building: Early Career Advance Class: An opportunity to explore developing research in this area from ÌÇÐÄTV early career colleagues and to explore further interdisciplinary and institutional linkages.

Further information please contact Jeannette Silva-Flores J.T.Silva-Flores@warwick.ac.uk

Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, 10-11 June 2011

Organisers Catherine Cox (University College Dublin), Hilary Marland (University of ÌÇÐÄTV) and Sarah York (University College Dublin and University of ÌÇÐÄTV).

This two-day Wellcome Trust funded conference will focus on the relationship between illness and migration, discrimination and social dislocation.  By migration, we refer to both migration between countries and internal movements of populations, for example between regions or from rural to urban areas.  Our focus is primarily on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but we are also interested in exploring the relationship between historical concerns surrounding health and ethnicity and current health practice and policy. The workshop is intended to contribute to debates on the susceptibility of specific groups to medical interventions, as well as interpretations of the relationship between health and illness, migration and ethnicity, and the management of the health and illness of ethnic groups within broader health and welfare strategies.  The workshop will explore the experiences of particular groups, be these ‘foreigners’, migratory peoples, patients of varied religious denominations and those suffering from particular disorders or diseases.  Participants will include keynote speaker Alison Bashford, Roberta Bivins, Kat Foxhall, Alan Ingram and John Welshman. The conference will also provide the organisers with an opportunity to present on their project on ‘Madness, Migration and the Irish in Lancashire, c.1850-1921’ (funded by the Wellcome Trust).   We are keen to involve a mix of early career and established scholars, historians and academics from a broad range of disciplines, policy makers and practitioners in the conference. 

Please contact either Catherine Cox catherine.cox@ucd.ie or Sarah York sarah.york@ucd.ie

for further information.