From today, the Medical Humanities Research Centre blog will no longer be updated. We’ve migrated to a new blog for the city-wide Glasgow Medical Humanities Network . This is the online hub for a Wellcome Trust funded initiative to bring the centres of excellence in medical humanities across the city into closer co-ordination and collaboration.… Continue reading →
ARCHITECTURE FOR THE BLIND and the INTERNATIONAL WELL BUILDING INSTITUTE are collaborating on these two conferences for 2020. Keynotes: ARCHITECTURE FOR THE BLIND: Chris Downey INTERNATIONAL WELL BUILDING INSTITUTE: Angela Spangler 1. USA. EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN – RETHINKING RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE, OBJECTS AND ENVIRONMENTS https://architecturemps.com/florida/ Dates: 16-17 January 2020 Place: Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA Abstracts:… Continue reading →
Time/ Date: TBC (circa 9.30am-2.30pm), Friday 18 October 2019 Location: Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield Non-Epileptic Attack Disorder: Metaphysics, Epistemology and OntologyDate : Friday 18 October 2019Time : TBC (circa 9.30am-2.30pm)Venue : Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield(https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri)Contact : Dr Jon M Dickson (j.m.dickson@sheffield.ac.uk) Background and AimsThere is no satisfactory medical explanation for non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD). People who… Continue reading →
Time/Date: 5:30pm – 8pm, 11 September 2019 Location: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow ‘Creative Genius and Mental Health in the Lives of Robert Burns and Robert Lowell’ Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 11 September 2019 With Kay Jamison and Moira Hansen This event is in partnership with The Royal Society… Continue reading →
Closing Date for Abstracts: Monday 16 September 2019 We are delighted to share our call for contributions to the collection Activism in Medicine. Please see below for more information and we look forward to hearing from you. Activism in Medicine Activism has been instrumental in developing the study and practice of medicine. Working both from within and against the medical… Continue reading →
Date: 10.00–18.00, Friday 11 October 2019 Location: Dana Studio Closing Date for Abstracts: 5pm on 2 September 2019 CFP: Decolonising Science Narratives 11 October 2019, Science Museum, London This workshop will bring together those working across and between disciplines and practices to critically reflect on the histories and realities of colonialism and science. We invite papers, presentations… Continue reading →
Time/Date: All seminars are between 16:30 – 18:00 on Thursdays, from September to November 2019 Location: Dana Studio Dana Research Centre and Library 165 Queen’s Gate London, SW7 5HD Everyone is welcome to attend the free upcoming Medicine Galleries Seminar series at the Science Museum, London. The seminars will take place on Thursdays, 4.30-6.00 pm, from September… Continue reading →
Closing date for applications: August 31, end of day Call for Writers: Synapsis Journal of Health Humanities The editors are pleased to invite new writers to contribute to Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities. Synapsis is an online publication designed to bring together humanities scholars and students from across institutions and disciplines in a “department without walls.” The site… Continue reading →
McCarthy Award for History of Medicine Research The purpose of this award is to support and develop the study of the history of medicine in Scotland. The prize for this award is £1000. Eligibility This award is open to all researchers in the history of medicine, or related social and cultural history fields. Researchers can… Continue reading →
Date: 24-25 April 2020 Location:Trinity College Dublin Closing date for proposals: 1 December 2019 Trinity College Dublin24-25 April 2020 Proposals for papers are invited for a conference on “The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Hearing and Auditory Perception”, which aims to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for researchers with an interest in the history… Continue reading →
