Medical Imaginaries of the Far Right w/ Richard Seymour and Helen Charman

Join Red Medicine for a discussion with Richard Seymour and Helen Charman at Ridley Road Market Bar on Tuesday October 8, 6:30PM.
We’ll be discussing how the far-right thinks and talks about medicine and the state.

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics and The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at Salvage magazine.

Helen Charman is a Fellow and College Teaching Officer in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Her critical writing has been published in the Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze, and The Stinging Fly among others. As a poet, Charman was shortlisted for the White Review Poet's Prize in 2017 and for the 2019 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, and has published four poetry pamphlets, most recently In the Pleasure Dairy. Charman volunteers as a birth companion in Glasgow.

Red Medicine is a podcast about the politics of health, medicine, and the body. illness is the event series that runs parallel to the podcast.

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