25 June 2024 - 25 June 2024
1:00PM - 2:00PM
In person -IAS Seminar Room - please note in person places are limited Online via Zoom
FREE
The Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies is delighted to host this year’s Durham Residential Library fellows as part of the 'Catholicism in the Long Nineteenth Century' lunchtime seminar series at the IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall, Palace Green. Join us for our sixth seminar with Debolina Dey on 25 June at 1pm and download the full programme to see what's coming next.
Image credit : The Crucifixion of Our Lord with the Virgin Mary, St John and Mary Magdalene (1854), Franz von Rohden (1817-1903)
25 June, Debolina Dey, Azim Premji University, Bhopal
Against the chequered backdrop of the Public Health movement in mid 19th century Britain, this paper primarily examines the domestication of sanitary knowledge through tracts published by the Ladies Sanitary Association and the ways in which the “sanitary idea” post the legislation of the Public Health Act is disseminated to labouring class populations. It looks at how the middle class woman becomes a charitable figure who comes to play a significant role in the propagation of sanitary knowledge, while the labouring class woman becomes the main site of reform for this nexus between hygiene and morality. In doing so, this paper examines the form of the pamphlets, written mainly to be disseminated in domestic spaces of the labouring poor, through which a new commonsense about health emerges.
Debolina Dey, Azim Premji University, Bhopal
Debolina Dey currently teaches at Azim Premji University and previously taught at Ramjas college, University of Delhi. They have published work on the cultural history of public health and digital cultures. Their research interests include 19th century, queer cultures and digital cultures. Their present work is trying to build bridges between Indian and British archives in the late 19th century vis a vis rhetoric of reforming disease.
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