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From Corporeal Ethics to Carnal Instincts: Sexual Desires in the Long-Eighteenth Century

Part of the 'Emotions, History and the Body' research seminar series, run by AboutFace York.

The Social Intellectual: Experience and Thought in the Middle Ages

This international conference explores the organic relationship between lived experience and academic/religious thought, beginning from the position that intellectual activity and social experience were closely intertwined in the medieval period.

Experiencing Placebo: Toward a Biocultural History of the Brain

Part of the 'Emotions, History and the Body' research seminar series, run by AboutFace York.

What's New? Continuity and Change in Abortion Stigma and Access in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Part of the 'Doing History' events series led by AboutFace York in affiliation with the Centre for Global Health Histories.

How we Feel: Cultural Variations on a Natural Theme

Part of the 'Emotions, History and the Body' research seminar series, run by the AboutFace project.