Event Description
The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will host a hybrid conference entitled “Health and Work in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750.”
Tuesday 20 September
Stanis Perez (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) – Working and Ruling in a Permanent Disease Context: the Versailles Paradox (17th-18th c.)
Emma Marshall (University of York) – Servants have not bodies of brasse’: Domestic Service, Sickness and Healthcare in the English Gentry Home, c. 1650-1750
Julia Nurse (Wellcome Collection) – Unfit to Work: Lived Experience of Disability in the Context of Working in Early Modern Britain
Marie-Louise Leonard (Ca’ Foscari) – Negotiating Infirmity in the Early Modern Workplace
Claire Turner (University of Leeds) – Crossing Thresholds and Breaking Boundaries: Plague Workers, Smells, and Domestic Homes in Seventeenth-Century London (online)
Rachel Clamp (Durham University) – Plague Industries in Early Modern English and Scottish Towns
Paola Bertucci (Yale University) – Medicine for the State: Bernardino Ramazzini and the Diseases of Workers (online)
Wednesday 21 September
Benedetta Chizzolini (Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München) – Hygienic and Sanitary Issues on Early Modern Papal Galleys, 16th-17th centuries
Ilaria Contesotto (University of Bologna) – Lucidora Maselli, a singer ‘incapace della tortura’: opera singers and occupational health in 17th century Venice
Ludwig Pelzl’ (EUI) – Work, Aging and Retirement in Early Modern Germany, c. 1600-1800
Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) – Old age, Health, and Labour in the Early Modern World (online)
Jan Becker (EUI) – Treating the Poor: French Vernacular Medicine in 17th-Century Cochinchina
Liana DeMarco (Yale University) – The Wealth of Nations is Healthy Populations: Medicine, Labour, and Theories of Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century (online)
Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 September 2022, 9:00–18:00 CEST
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