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09:15-09:30 Opening Remarks: Manikarnika Dutta & Paula Larsson (University of Oxford)
09:30-10:45 Session One: The Transformative Power of Imagined Identity
Chair: Rod Bailey
Elliott Bowen (Nazarbayev University) [Online]
Prescribing primitivism: America, the Philippines, and the transformation of early twentieth-century resort medicine
Martin Robert (CERMES3, Paris) [Online]
The importance of Paris in nineteenth-century Canadian medical identity
Joanna Spyra (University of Bergen) [In person]
Medical identities of Jewish immigrants in Argentina
10:45-11:05 Coffee Break
11:05-12:20 Session Two: Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine
Chair: Mark Harrison
Saurabh Mishra (University of Sheffield) [In person]
Medicine, science, and mortality: a tale of two sisters in Madras, 1801-1808
Hannah-Louise Clark (University of Glasgow) [In person]
“You will not find official trace of it”: Jewish doctors, Muslim medical auxiliaries, and colonial medicine in Algeria
Souvik Naha (University of Glasgow) [In person]
Why cricketers hated going to India: sanitary anxieties and post imperial cricket tours
12:20-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:15 Keynote Lecture One: Mark Harrison (Co-Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford)
Protest and identity formation in the time of Covid: the UK in global context [In person]
14:15-15:00 Session Three: Health and Hygiene
Chair: Manikarnika Dutta
Sarbajit Mitra (SOAS) [Online]
Interrogating Pariah Arrack: the inquiries on the perils of locally distilled liquor by the Fort William Medical Board of Calcutta in 1817
Mobeen Hussain (Trinity College, Dublin) [Online]
Skin-lightening as hygiene discourse: an alternative dialectic in late colonial India, c.1900- 1945
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-16: 35 Public Engagement Workshop
Moderator: Paula Larsson
Hannah Cornish (Curator of the Pathology and History of Science Collections at University College London) [In person]
Eugenic theories, racist science and medicine: what can we learn from museum collections?
Lunan Zhao (MD Program, University of Toronto) [In person]
Oxford’s medical legacy: a public engagement initiative
Liat Kozma (Harry Friedenwald Chair in History of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) [In person]
Gamification of medical history: cholera at the time of the Mecca pilgrimage
17:15-18:45 Uncomfortable Oxford Walking Tour
Meeting Point: In front of Radcliffe Humanities
20:00-21:00 Optional Social
The Bear Pub