‘The Blue Corpse’: Talk by research student at the Wellcome Collection
Amanda Sciampacone, PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media, will be giving a talk at the Wellcome Collection in February.
Amanda Sciampacone, PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media, will be giving a talk at the Wellcome Collection in February.
Amanda’s talk on February 14th, titled ‘The Blue Corpse’, looks at cholera in the Nineteenth Century. Cholera epidemics resulted in huge death tolls and, unsurprisingly, caused panic and fear among the public. The effects of the disease on the body were swift and dramatic. Amanda will guide the audience through artists’ depictions of the illness in the Wellcome Library’s art collection.
Amanda Sciampacone is a recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship and a Birkbeck Arts Research Studentship. Her research focuses on representations of cholera in nineteenth-century England, and the relationship between disease, in/visibility, and the topographies of London.
Tickets will be available from Friday 25 January at 11.00 on the Wellcome website.
Related links
- The Wellcome Collection
- PhD/MPhil in History of Art at Birkbeck
- All History of Art courses at Birkbeck