About this Event
A bout this event
The School of Humanities and The Faculty of Medicine are pleased to invite you to the relaunch of Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities, which will take place on 15th May 2024 at 16.00hrs in person and online.
We are delighted to welcome Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London to speak at this event. Her talk is entitled Contemplating Evil: ‘Monstrous’ Women in History, Medicine, and Law, 1890s to the Present.
15th May 2024 - 16.00hrs to 18.30hrs - University of Southampton Avenue Campus/LTB
About the speaker
Joanna Bourke is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence. She is currently writing a book entitled Evil Women. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek.
https://www.joannabourke.com
Event Information
Guests can join this event in person at Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, or online. Please select your ticket choice when booking.
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Programme:
16.00hrs: Keynote by Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London
Contemplating Evil: ‘Monstrous’ Women in History, Medicine, and Law, 1890s to the Present
Summary: What does it mean to call a woman ‘evil’? My talk focusses on British, American, and Canadian women who have inflicted exceptional levels of violence on other people. They are women who (at the time their crimes came to public knowledge) were widely proclaimed to be ‘evil’, as opposed to ‘very bad’. How have medical and legal discourses of ‘evil femininity’ changed over the modern period?
17.30hrs: Round table
Women and Medical humanities with Professor Joanna Bourke, Professor Kathleen Kendall, Dr Joan Tumblety and Dr Aude Campmas.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, Southampton, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
