The research environment Secrets to Patents was officially launched on 15 May 2025. To kickstart the activities, the PI, Natacha Klein Käfer, participated together with the PhD candidate Hannah Hjorth in the conference Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, organized by the project Medicine and the Making of Race (King’s College London) between 15 and 17 May 2025.
Natacha and Hannah presented a shared paper titled “Caribbean pharmaceutical slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth century: labour, knowledge, and struggles for
freedom” on the panel Medical knowledge and practices by enslaved people, which included presentations by Tamara Araya Fuentes (Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile) and Mary Hicks (University of Chicago).
You can find the full programme of the conference on the Medicine and the Making of Race‘s website. This wonderful event was made even better thanks to the generosity and incredible insight of the hosts, Dr. Hannah Murphy, the PI of the project, Research Fellow Carolin Schmitz, and Project Manager Becca Taite.
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