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New Publication! Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present

Posted on May 10, 2018 by effacedblog

The blog may have been a little quiet, but we have by no means been idle! We are thrilled to announce the release of our first major Effaced team publication: Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present (Bloomsbury 2018). This is also the … Continue reading →

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Call the Midwife: Topical Episode

Posted on February 26, 2018 by effacedblog

Nice to have a chance to catch up on last week’s Call the Midwife (available on BBC iPlayer for the next month), which features a character with significant facial scarring. Some spoilers ahead. One of the major plot lines focuses on … Continue reading →

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‘The All-Seeing Eye’: Registration now open

Posted on February 23, 2018 by effacedblog

Registration and the full program for The All-Seeing Eye: Vision and Eyesight Across Time and Cultures Workshop on April 11 is now available. The program is hosted by some friends and members of the Effaced team at Swansea University, David M. Turner and Gemma … Continue reading →

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CFP Portraiture: an Interdisciplinary Conference

Posted on February 11, 2018 by effacedblog

A relevant call for papers for those interested in faces: Portraiture: an Interdisciplinary Conference This will be hosted by the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture at the University of Durham, 13-15 July 2018. The CFP specifies that: Proposals may … Continue reading →

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Conference Report: The Porous Body in Early Modern Europe

Posted on January 29, 2018 by effacedblog

A belated report on The Porous Body in Medieval Europe. Trish and Emily had the pleasure of attending the first conference for the Renaissance Skin project led by Professor Evelyn Welch at King’s College London. The conference aimed “to consider the porousness of … Continue reading →

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University of Exeter event: ‘Disfigured Faces: Modern and Early Modern’

Posted on December 4, 2017 by effacedblog

Two members of the Effaced team will be presenting this Wednesday, 6 December, as part of the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History seminar series. Disfigured Faces: Modern and Early Modern, presented by Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck) and Dr Michelle … Continue reading →

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Free Event! ‘Making Faces: Beauty Lost and Found’

Posted on November 5, 2017 by effacedblog

As part of the Being Human Festival of the Humanities, the Effaced team is hosting a public event at Swansea University on 22 November 2017. Making Faces: Beauty Lost and Found will introduce members of the public to the fascinating world of … Continue reading →

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CFP: Medical and Metaphorical Wounds from the Middle Ages to the First World War

Posted on September 24, 2017 by effacedblog

A two-day workshop at the Science Museum, London, that may be of interest to our followers: January 26 and 27, 2018. Wounds and their meaning have differed over time: from stigmata to the psychological wounding of soldiers in the First … Continue reading →

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