The Body in History | Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Career Researcher and Early Career Researcher Conference
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In PersonMonday, 6 July 2026, 9am to 5pm
Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, OX2 6GG
Times, room, and registration information will be announced soon.
Academic study is often concerned with the mind, with ideas, reason, and fact which are implicitly set against the messy, complicated realities of human embodiment. However, recent decades have seen a turn towards the body across the humanities and social sciences, a wide-ranging and dynamic topic. Alongside this ‘somatic turn’ in academia, contemporary culture displays something of an obsession with the body, its appearance, performance, and management. Moreover, even when our research does not directly touch on the body, we all have bodies, and our engagements with the university and archive as well as broader society are informed by our different experiences of embodiment.
The Body in History Conference will bring together Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers across disciplines interested in the history, representation, and experience of the human body and its environments. It will provide a unique opportunity to cross disciplinary divides, network, and share insights.
Series: TORCH Body in History Network
Department: History (Department)