Zoe Copeman awarded best paper at British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies conference "Bodies and Embodiment"

The Society's President's Prize is awarded to the best paper delivered by a postgraduate

At the recent (January 8th-10th 2025) annual sessions (54th) of the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies conference ("Bodies and Embodiment" the theme for this year), Zoe Copeman was awarded the Society's President's Prize, which is awarded to the best paper delivered by a postgraduate, a prize that additionally comes with a £200 award.

Zoe's paper, which was part of the Anne Lister panel, was titled "Women's access to anatomical knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France." Her paper draws from on her doctoral work “Cankerous Femme: The European Mastectomy and the Semiotics of Surgery,” research on which Zoe is performing this year and next courtesy of a joint appointment at the Warburg Institute and the Courtauld Institute of Art that is supported by a Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s History of Art Institutional Fellowship.

Read the announcement from the Society about Zoe's award on Bluesky

Congratulations Zoe!