Infancy, Childhood, Personhood and Health, 12 September 2022

10am - 4pm

Armstrong Building, Room 2.49, Newcastle University

If you would like to attend, please contact: vicky.long@newcastle.ac.uk 

A workshop co-organised by the Medical Humanities Network, and the Life Cycles, Bodies, Health and Disease research strand from History, Classics and Archaeology, in partnership with the Childhood and Youth NUCoRE.

Programme

10-10.20: Coffee

10.20-10.30: Welcome

10.30-12: Personhood and the Value of Infant and Child Lives:
‘Finding the (Young) Person in Ancient Greek Personhood: Archaeology and Children’s Ascribed Identities in Athens, 900-323 BCE’ - Emma Gooch (School of History, Classics and Archaeology).
‘“A Vanishing Nightmare”: Spina Bifida, Selective Non-Treatment, and the Value of Disabled Infant Lives’ – Vicky Long (School of History, Classics and Archaeology).
‘Compassion or Contempt? Rethinking the Value of the Pauper Child in the British Empire, 1820-1930’ - Claudia Soares (School of History, Classics and Archaeology).

12-12.45: Lunch

12.45-1.45: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Childhood
‘Jonathan Hanaghan (1886-1967) and the Development of Psychoanalytic Ideas about Childhood and Adolescence in Mid-Twentieth Century Ireland’ - Fergus Campbell (School of History, Classics and Archaeology).
‘Psychological Ideas about Terminally and Chronically Ill Children in Cold War America’ - Laura Tisdall (School of History, Classics and Archaeology).

1.45-2: Coffee

2.00-3.30: Death, Loss, and Commemoration
‘Diagnostic Disclosure in Paediatric Cancer since 1960’ - Lucy Walsh (School of History, Classics and Archaeology).
‘Memorialls and Remaines’: Love, Loss and Childhood in a Seventeenth-Century Family Manuscript’ - Kate Chedgzoy (School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics).
‘Fragments, Never Sent’: Describing the Bond with a Sibling who Died at Birth’ - Anne Whitehead (School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics).

3.30-4: Reflections

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