Opening of Autumn Term lecture series ‘Sick of Debt? Sickness and the Body under Neo-Capitalism’ for the Critical & Historical Studies programme at the Royal College of Art, London, which connects Blackshaw’s interest in the relationship between modernism and medicine with contemporary art practice and theory. Working with MA students from across the School of Arts & Humanities, the series asks: what does it mean to be sick? How and by whom is this bodily state constituted and regulated, and to what effect? How are ideas and experiences of sickness bound to notions of labour, production and consumption, and inflected by gender, sexuality and race? And how might they be challenged through creative practice?

Contribution to the workshop convened by Dr. Allison Morehead, Principal Investigator of the SSHRC Insight Grant funding the major, international, collaborative research project Edvard Munch, Modernism, and Medicine (2017-2021), at the Munch Museum and National Medical Museum, Oslo, June 2019.

Contribution of the paper ‘Egon Schiele’s Clinical Modernism’ for the panel chaired by Dr Mary Hunter (McGill University) and Dr Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (University of Essex) convened for the Association for Art History Annual Conference at the University of Brighton, April 2019.