The Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University is hosting a one-day symposium devoted to emerging scholarship in the Visual Medical Humanities presented in-person and live online via zoom.

9.00am – 5.00pm Thursday 22 July 2021
Conference Room 1.02
Sir Rowland Wilson Building
Australian National University

An online keynote address Tales of the unbeautiful: The Elephant Man as modern fable by Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck) will be held at 6pm the evening prior, Wednesday 21 July 2021. Click here for tickets and further information on the evening keynote.

Symposium presenters

Claire Hooker from the University of Sydney presents Paint the Pain: Exploring Theoretical Bases from the Medical Humanities to the Applied Arts.

Nicole Sully from the University of Queensland presents Aesthetic Headaches and the Transformation of the Art Museum.

Vahri McKenzie from the University of Canberra presents Sketching the Sweet Spot: Visual Arts in ADF ARRTS Programme.

Micaela Pattison from the Australian National University presents The Visual Archive of a Eugenic Modern Girl from Interwar Spain.

Natasha Fijn from the Australian National University presents Visualising Mongolian Medicinal Knowledge.

Katie Sutton from the Australian National University and Birgit Lang from the University of Melbourne presents The Ethics of the Visual Turn: Experts and their Subjects in fin-de-siecle Sexology and Criminology

Fae Brauer from the University of East London presents Exposing the Venereal Peril: Fournier's Syphilography and Picasso's Syphilitic Bodies

Elizabeth Stephens from the University of Queensland presents The Incubator Babies of Coney Island: Science, Spectacle and Sentimentality in the American Amusement Park

Nina Sellars from the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, University of Melbourne presents The Delinquent Museum: The Art of Offending Well

Erica Seccombe from the Australian National University presents Hospitals, Community and Nature

Food will be provided, catered by La Baguette by R &M. This event will be capped so registration is required. Please register your attendance by COB Friday 16 July 2021

Zoom available for audience members. Link will be provided closer to event date.