HSTM Seminar Series: 7th December 2022

Speaker: Dr Ian Miller (Ulster University), ‘Starvation and Cost-of-Living Crises in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland’ 

Chair: TBC

Place: Online

Date and time: 7th December 2022, 15.00-16.00 hrs (GMT)

To register please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dr-ian-miller-uu-starvation-and-cost-of-living-crisis-7-dec-2022-tickets-459967373797


Abstract and Speaker Biography: Ian Miller is Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University. Ian has authored 6 book on medical history on topics including the history of the stomach, force feeding and how the Irish diet changed after the Famine. He is also PI on the Epidemic Belfast project. Set up during COVID, this explores Belfast’s often overlooked medical history. This paper revisits an Irish Research Council funded project on the history of the post-Famine diet in light of recent concern over issues such as food poverty. 

To register please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dr-ian-miller-uu-starvation-and-cost-of-living-crisis-7-dec-2022-tickets-459967373797


Take a look at the HSTM Seminar Series Programme

Seminar Convenor 2022-23: Dr Adrian Kirwan


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