Durham University organises a two-day symposium for postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers exploring the visual, material and representational cultures surrounding the inner depths and outer surfaces of the human body, c.1400-c.1800.
Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
Dissection, the medical ’gaze’ and medical illustration
Corporeality and the flesh in the visual, written and performing arts
The body in religious iconography, hagiography and religious (...)