Name: Racial Difference in the Anglophone Caribbean
Location: Wellcome Collection

Events

Join Kate Lister to delve into the hidden history of the world’s oldest profession. Kate will discuss her new book and share stories of those who sold sex for a living, in an entertaining and informative discussion.

Kate Lister’s book ‘Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale’ is published by Wellcome Collection on 7 October 2021.

This event will be live-streamed on Wellcome Collection’s YouTube channel and available to watch afterwards. After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions. 

You will be able to comment and ask questions live online using YouTube Live Chat and via Slido during the event. Your microphone and camera will be switched off for the whole session. 

Kate Lister is the creator of the award-winning online research project Whores of Yore, which seeks to build public engagement and disseminate research on the history of sex and sexuality through social media. She also lectures at Leeds Trinity University, and is widely published on the sex trade.

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Dr Kate Lister

@WhoresofYore

Speaker

<p>A chance to hear about and talk about ideas with others.</p>

Discussion

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Library Insights: Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts

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This event will have live speech-to-text transcription which may be useful for people who are D/deaf, hard of hearing, deafened or neurodiverse. The text will be embedded in the event video window and ticketholders will also receive a link to open subtitles in a separate window.

Speech-to-text

Booking a ticket guarantees you entry to the online event. You will be given joining instructions in your confirmation email. If you have any access requests or requirements, for example a transcript of the event, email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

Guaranteed (online)

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts

14 to 19-year-olds

Join artist Jamie Hale and author Lucy Jones in a creative workshop about the relationship between nature and the mind. 

The workshop will start with a conversation about Lucy’s investigations into the scientific evidence base for nature and health. She and Jamie will discuss themes such as the effect of nature on the brain, microorganisms in the soil and their relationship to our minds, and opportunities for people to spend time in restorative natural environments. 

The conversation will be followed by a Q&A where you can ask them questions about the ideas raised. Then you’ll have the opportunity to share your own experiences of nature and take part in a creative activity. Using nature poetry, you'll explore how we talk about the natural world, and how changing our relationship with it might affect the way we feel.

This is a relaxed event. Cameras can be on or off as needed. You can move around and make noise at any time. If you need to dip in and out of the session, you can. There will be multiple ways to communicate, ask questions and participate (such as using the chat function if you do not want to use your voice).  

If you have any access requests or requirements, for example a transcript of the event, email us at  access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.  

This workshop is for 14 to 19 year-olds. It is limited to 16 places and booking is essential. You will be given joining instructions for Zoom in your confirmation email. 

Jamie is an artist, curator, and founder and artistic director of disability arts organisation CRIPtic Arts. They create poetry, comedy, scriptwriting and drama for page, stage and screen, and are currently directing a showcase at the Barbican Centre for autumn 2021 and a disability arts documentary. They have written for Wellcome Collection and the Guardian newspaper and have performed at venues including the Southbank Centre. Their poetry pamphlet, ‘Shield’, was published in January 2021.

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Jamie Hale

@jamierhale on Twitter

Facilitator

Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist based in Hampshire, England. Her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in BBC Earth, BBC Wildlife, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and the New Statesman. Her first book, ‘Foxes Unearthed’, was celebrated for its “brave, bold and honest” (Chris Packham) account of our relationship with the fox, winning the Society of Authors Roger Deakin Award 2015. Her second book, ‘Losing Eden’, is an exploration of the natural world and human mental health and wellbeing. It was a Times bestseller and longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

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Lucy Jones

lucyfjones.com

Contributor

Young people from Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Young People’s Forum were advisors and co-creators on this project, helping design the content and activity.  

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Young People's Forum

Collaborator

<p>A practical activity where you will create something or develop skills.</p>

Workshop

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Do we need nature?

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This event is British Sign Language interpreted. An interpreter will be embedded in the event stream/visible to all attendees and will interpret what is discussed into BSL for d/Deaf, hard of hearing and deafened attendees.

British Sign Language

The host and speakers will describe themselves and key visual elements they refer to, which may be useful for blind, partially sighted and neurodiverse attendees. There will not be a separate audio description track.

Audio described

Join artist Jamie Hale and author Lucy Jones in a creative workshop where you will explore the relationship between our brains and nature.

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Who wants to be happy?

From inside our heads to the outside world, these creative workshops will explore what happiness is – and isn’t – through art, activism and science.

Do We Need Nature?

Join Dr Rana Hogarth to investigate the circulation of ideas about ‘innate’ racial differences in the Caribbean and beyond through the writings of British military and civilian practitioners. 

You will learn about how ideas of racial difference emerged in the late 18th century, as well as the role they played in advancing medical knowledge and empire.  

This talk traces the process through which British practitioners who worked and lived in the West Indies propagated the myth of innate racial difference between Black and white people, particularly through their ideas about Black troops’ susceptibility to yellow fever. These actions made up the foundation of medical evidence used to mark the Black body as peculiar and ‘Other’ for years to come. 

Rana Hogarth received her PhD in History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University in 2012. Her scholarship interrogates conceptions of racial difference in North America and the Caribbean as they emerged through the language of medicine and science. Her current research interrogates links between slavery-era discourse about the (un)fitness of Black people and eugenicists’ preoccupations within race crossing in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Dr Rana Hogarth

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Exploring Research: Racial Difference in the Anglophone Caribbean

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Join Dr Rana Hogarth to investigate the circulation of ideas about ‘innate’ racial differences in the Caribbean and beyond.

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Researcher talk in the Viewing Room

Hear from people who have researched our collections, as they share their discoveries. They'll draw on examples from our collections to relate the stories that they've uncovered. And you’ll have a chance to ask them questions afterwards.

Exploring Research

Racial Difference in the Anglophone Caribbean

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