We are running a short workshop on Biomolecular Humanities on 15th November 2024, information below, all welcome. Feel free to circulate this information.

For Zoom connection details, please contact Ester Oras

2:15pm UK time

• General introductions
• Ester and Jerome to introduce the idea of Biomolecular Humanities

2:30-3.15

• Tom Booth from the Francis Crick Institute on ‘The Genealogical Turn in Archaeogenetics’
• Christine Lehnen from Exeter University on ‘Vikings, Reality, Bioarchaeology’

3:30-4:30

• Toine Pieters from Utrecht University on ‘Breaking paradigms by bridging the humanities and the natural sciences: biomolecular humanities scholarship helps shifting research priorities in leprosy research’
• Derek Gatherer from Lancaster University on bioinformatics and corpus linguistics
• Jess Thompson from the University of Cambridge on ‘What makes a body? Proposals for thinking about the body across the biomolecular sciences and humanities’

4:45-5:30

• Ana Peraica from Atelier Peraica on ‘Copyright, Market and Photogenetics’
• Tim Stinson from North Carolina State University on Book Microbiomes
• Final discussion