Summer update from the Medicine and the Making of Race project: Blogs, Summer School and events

Hello and welcome to this summer update from the MMoR project.
 
Firstly, we'd like to congratulate our newest MMoR team member Eli Cuming who submitted her thesis 'Reading "Monstrous" Humans in Reformation England' last month! We’re looking forward to Eli joining our team as a full-time member from July.
 
We'd also would like to draw your attention to an exciting new blog series, launched last month on our project website. The series aims to expand the corpus of sources for students and scholars, and interrogate the role of the archive in the history of medicine, science and race. Our first series features posts by experts including Farren Yero, Meghan Roberts, Mackenzie Cooley, Claire Weeda, and Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh. We already have a few posts live, so do check them out here if you haven't already! If you are interested in contributing we’d love to hear from you, just email us at mmor@kcl.ac.uk.  

Turning to project events, we were thrilled to welcome Cécile Fromont (Yale University) to King’s at the end of April. Cécile gave a fantastic talk on her book ‘Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola’. Cécile and an interdisciplinary group of scholars also joined us for an exploratory workshop on “early modern bundles”: handcrafted pouches which could bestow their wearers with power or protection. Huge thanks to everyone who took part in both events.   

We have several exciting events coming up. On Friday 30th June we will be hosting a workshop titled ‘Slavery, Race and Health in the Global Mediterranean’. This will bring together historians working on slavery/race across the early modern global Mediterranean (extending into the Atlantic) to explore meaningful ways of working towards a more inter-connected and shared research agenda that sets health studies at its centre. This is a closed workshop but we welcome interested participants. If you would like to attend, please feel free to email mmor@kcl.ac.uk, and see our website here for more information.
 
In July, we are proud to be hosting a weeklong ‘Archives, Slavery & Race-Making’ Summer School with the Centre for Early Modern Studies. The school will be exploring new methodological approaches to the archives of race & slavery in the early modern world. Bringing together leading scholars in a variety of methodologies and disciplines, the school aims to introduce a new generation of researchers to cutting-edge approaches to the field. This will feature master classes from leading scholars including Diana Paton, Stephanie Smallwood, Farah Karim-Cooper, Alexandre White and Tamara Walker. We have now selected our participants and are excited to welcome everyone in July. Check out our webpage here to read more.

And finally, we have recently confirmed speakers for our ‘Christianity and Racemaking in the Early Modern Atlantic World’ conference on 13th & 14th September, featuring key notes from Dennis Austin Britton and Heather Miyano Kopelson. Originally planned as a single day conference, the volume and quality of proposals meant we decided to extend this to two days! Keep an eye on our website and Twitter for the programme, and the chance to register your attendance.

We hope you have a wonderful summer,
The MMoR Team