Dr Alexander Wragge-Morley

Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine

Profile

I am a lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor) in the history of science and medicine. Through my research and teaching, I seek to understand how people in the past obtained knowledge through sensory experience. In particular, I ask how scientific and medical practitioners have related the pleasures and pains of the senses to the work of knowledge production. In doing so, I bring together histories of science, medicine, the body, the neurosciences, art, literature, and religion. I also have broad interests in the medical humanities, organizing research, podcasts, and events dealing with ideas about the human mind, bringing together scientists, artists, and humanities scholars. In addition, I am also enjoy discussing the history of the arts and sciences with broader audiences, whether through writing, podcasts, or film.

Conference: “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”
Invited talk

Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress 2025
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Grant Writing Workshop on the History of Habit
Symposium

The Body, Habit, and the Internalization of Experience before Modernity
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Workshop on Arts and Health, with Mural Painting
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Lancaster History and Creative Writing Lecture: Gender, Witchcraft, and History - A Conversation with A.K. Blakemore
Other

Habit, the Body, and the Arts in Early Modernity
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Habit, Medicine, and Efficacy in the 18th Century
Oral presentation

Regional Heritage Centre Study Day: ‘Carlisle Cathedral Library: past, present and future’
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Mind, Body, and the Arts, 1100-1800
Symposium

Taste, habit, and degeneration in 18th-century Britain
Invited talk

Writing Sexual Violence in the Age of #MeToo
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

University of Birmingham Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies – Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Workshop – Un Monde de Couleurs
Invited talk

EMPHASIS Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Invited talk

Art Histories in Dialogue Seminar Series, November 20, 2022.
Invited talk

Being Human 2022
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

British Society for Aesthetics Conference on the Aesthetic Nature of Scientific Experiments, September 8-9 2022.
Participation in conference - Academic

Sensing the Truth: Changing Conceptions of the Perceptual in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe”, June 13-15, 2022.
Participation in conference - Academic

World of Tastes: Nature, Culture and the Making of the PalateCentre for Global Knowlede Studies, University of Cambridge
Participation in conference - Public

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting
Participation in conference - Academic

Public Event on the Quatercentenary of Thomas WillisThe Royal Society, London - 18 November 2021.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Knowledge and Taste’ series of seminars and conversations hosted by the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies at CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  • FASS Health Hub