A symposium exploring the multi-faceted life of Florence Nightingale
A symposium exploring the multi-faceted life of Florence Nightingale.
Navigating Nightingale, Saturday 18th September 2010, Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road
The symposium, organised by the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, and hosted by the Wellcome Collection, will see the life and work of Florence Nightingale discussed from a wide variety of angles including war studies, history of medicine, celebrity and the media, religion, statistics, travel and life writing.
Speakers and chairs will include academics from a variety of departments at King's, alongside experts from other universities, and including Florence Nightingale's biographer, Mark Bostridge, the director of the Florence Nightingale Museum, and a priest.
A provisional programme of the day's papers is available to download below.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/05/44/11/NavigatingNightingaleProgrammeSpeakers.pdf
For more information please follow these links, where registration details (deadline of 31st August) and the final programme will be posted shortly.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/anniversary/index/events
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/events/other.html
We are very grateful for support from the Society for the Social History of Medicine.
There is a £10 discount in the registration fee for students and for SSHM members (£25 rather than £35).
