Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain
Programme
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Friday, 4 October 2019
09:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:30 Welcome and Introduction
Sandra Dinter (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) & Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (Universität Koblenz-Landau)
“Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain”
10:30-13:00 Nineteenth-Century Medical Tourism and Therapeutic Travel
Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
“The Siren Call of the Mediterranean: Medical Climatology and Travel for Health, 1860-1900”
Matthew Ingleby (Queen Mary University of London)
“Sea Sicknesses, London–Margate c. 1815”
Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey)
“Sunburnt at Sea: Developing Understandings of Sunburn and Tanning in Nineteenth-Century Maritime Medicine”
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Pathologising (Im)Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Andrew Mangham (University of Reading)
“Monstrosities: Mobility and Development in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Stefanie John (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
“A Feverish Restlessness: Decadence, Disease and Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry”
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Feminine Mobility and the Gendered Medical Gaze
Ariane de Waal (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
“Exposure, Contamination, and ‘Peculiar Feelings’: The Travelling Skin of Victorian Horsewomen and Railway Passengers”
Monika Class (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
“Feminine Comportment, Motility and Spatiality in George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss (1860)”
19:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 5 October 2019
09:30-11:00 Mobility, Medicine and the Empire
Markku Hokkanen (Oulun Yliopisto)
“From Heroic Exploration to Careful Control: Mobility, Health and Medicine in the British African Empire”
Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Universität Wien)
“Travelling Objects: Commodity Culture and Victorian Geographies of Health”
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Medical Dimensions of (In)Voluntary Travel in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Kim Price (University of Liverpool)
“Convicts on the Move: Spaces of Pain, Experimentation and Cure in Nineteenth-Century British Prison Medicine”
Heidi Liedke (Queen Mary University of London)
“(Mental) Health and Travel: Mary Shelley and George Gissing Crossing Borders”
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 The Mobilities of Health and Disease
Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida)
“Watering Holes: Changes of Scene, Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the 19th Century”
Ursula Kluwick (Universität Bern)
“Moving Matter: Disease as Mobility in Victorian Literature”