Curating Visual and Material Histories of Medicine
When and Where
Speakers
Description
Department of History, University of Toronto
Helen E. Graham Visiting Lectureship
Associate Professor Allison Morehead, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University
Workshop, Jackman Humanities Building 100a, April 4th: 2–3:15pm, followed by 3:30–5 pm at the Royal Ontario Museum
“Curating Visual and Material Histories of Medicine”
RSVP for the Workshop to jennifer.mori@utoronto.ca by April 1
Allison Morehead is a historian of art, the psy-sciences, and medicine with an interdisciplinary background in history, art history, museum studies, psychology and the history of medicine. Her current curatorial work on Edvard Munch invites viewers to consider gender and care work, reproductive technologies, vaccine hesitancy, homosocial medical patronage, health tourism, Scandinavian race science, and occult vegetarianism. Her workshop will involve a seminar session followed by an examination of artefacts at the ROM.
