Thursday 3rd July, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University

10-11am Registration & Coffee

11-11.30 Fashionable Diseases Project Team and Northumbria University Welcome

11.30-1 1st Panel Sessions

1-2 Lunch

2-3.30 2nd Panel Sessions

3.30-4 Coffee Break

4-5.30 1st Plenary Speaker: Dr David Shuttleton (Glasgow), "The Fashioning of Fashionable Diseases in the Eighteenth Century"


6.40 Meet for buses to The Sage

7pm Wine Reception at The Sage


Friday 4th July, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University

9-9.15 Coffee Break

9.15-9:30am Newcastle University Welcome and Announcements

9.30-11 3rd Panel Sessions

11-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-1 4th Panel Sessions

1-2 Lunch

2-3.30 5th Panel Sessions

3.30-4 Coffee Break

4-5.30 2nd Plenary Speaker: Professor Sander Gilman (Emory, Georgia), "The Fat Person on the Edgeware Road Omnibus: Fat, Health and Fashion in the British Long 18th Century"


6.40 Meet to walk from Newcastle U to Mansion House

7pm Conference Dinner at Mansion House


Saturday 5th July, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University

9-9.15 Coffee Break

9.15-10.45 6th Panel Sessions

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.45 3rd Plenary Speaker: Professor Helen Deutsch (UCLA), "Diseases of Writing"

12.45-1 Closing Address

1.30-3 We will adjourn to a nearby restaurant for lunch if anyone would like to join us




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