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Keynote Lecture: Professor Helen King on Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Esteemed classicist and historian Professor Helen King will discuss her new book Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies (2024). Professor King will explore how she tackled such a vast, challenging, and both deeply personal and political topic, as well as discussing how to write about the history of the body for a general audience.
Professor Helen King is a classist, historian, and advocate for the medical humanities. Her works include Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece (1998), The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty (2004), and most recently Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies (2024), which she will be discussing in this talk.
Date:
28 November 2025, 13:30
Venue:
Radcliffe Observatory
Venue Details:
Learning Centre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Speaker:
Professor Helen King
Part of:
Body in History Network
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
