[ecrea] Images, Publics and Health: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 13 September 2011

Images, Publics and Health: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives


Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Time: 10:30-18:00
Venue:  Room K2.31 (2nd Floor, King’s Building), King’s College London,
Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS

> From images of the swine flu epidemic to health promotion youtube clips, visual imagery is circulating at an increasing speed. Images produced by technologies such as obstetric ultrasound and fMRI circulate beyond the clinic, while  reality  television programmes explore illnesses and ‘health behaviours’. As a result of the growth of ICT, the number of actors capable of producing and disseminating imagery is now vast.
This symposium seeks to explore the relationship between images, publics and health and to critically consider contemporary developments. It does so by bringing together a range of ‘case studies’ from early twentieth century to the present.

Programme:

First session: 10:30- 13:00

Keynote: Prof. Sander L. Gilman (Emory): ‘Representing Human Sexuality: A Global Test Case’
Dr. Claudia Stein (Warwick): ‘Visual Culture and the History of Medicine at the International Hygiene Exibition at Dresden, 1911’
Dr. Richard Mckay (King’s): ‘Photographs of Patient Zero’
Chair: Prof. Roger Cooter (UCL)

13:00-14:30- break

Second session: 14:30-16:00

Prof. Ros Gill (King’s): ‘When reality TV meets sex education: Reading The Sex Inspectors’
Dr. Virginia Braun (Auckland): ‘The public formation of private parts? women's genital modification in public discourse’

16:00-16:30 – break

Third session: 16:30-18:00

Dr. Julie Roberts (Warwick): 'Ultrasound images beyond the clinic: whose meanings matter?’
Dr. Ofra Koffman (King’s): ‘Girl Power and Global Health: Images, Media, Policy’
Chair: Dr. Salim Al Gailani (Cambridge)

The venue is located on the second floor of the King's Building, Strand Campus of King's College London. Please ask at reception for directions. For a map please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand.html<https://roam.britishcouncil.org/about/campuses/,DanaInfo=www.kcl.ac.uk+strand.html>.


This event is free and open to all, however, registration is needed. To find out more details and to register please email Michelle Summerfield at: (michelle.summerfield /at/ kcl.ac.uk)


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