Seminar Series, 2015-16

Seminar Series, 2015-2016

Semester 2

Thursday 4 February
Dr Alice Mauger (University College Dublin)
'The cost of insanity: public, voluntary and private asylum care in nineteenth-century Ireland'
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD

Thursday 3 March
Dr Janet Greenlees (Glasgow Caledonian University)
'The tenuous relationship between gender, health and work, c.1860-1960'
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD

Thursday 7 April
Dr Luz Mar González-Arias (University of Oviedo)
'Landscapes of pain: the representation of illness in Dorothy Molloy's cancer poetry'
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD

Semester 1

Thursday 17 September
Dr Georgina Laragy (Queen's University, Belfast)
'Children, welfare and space in the industrial city: Belfast 1880-1939'
5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.

Thursday 8 October
Dr John Cunningham (Trinity College Dublin)
'Medicine in early modern Ireland: identifying and locating practitioners'
5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.

Thursday 5 November
Dr Ciarán McCabe (Maynooth University)
'"Contagion is supposed to have been introduced from the country": civic and charitable responses to the 1817-19 fever epidemic in Dublin city'
5 pm, K114, UCD School of History.