Date: 15th-16th June 2017 The Institute of Medical Ethics invites abstracts for its forthcoming conference in Liverpool on 15 – 16 June 2017. The conference is a two-day event, designed to give opportunities for academics, clinicians and students involved in biomedical ethics research and the medical humanities to present their current work. The conference organizers welcome… Continue reading
Location: University of Nottingham Deadline: 28th February 2017 This studentship is for students wanting to undertake a doctoral degree working on our manuscripts and special collections. The University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections, and Centre for Research on Cuba, hold collections which have been designated as of national and international importance. They are a major… Continue reading
Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference, Keele University, 28-30 June 2017. Panel session Call for Papers: The Neurological Turn and Contemporary Fiction (Thursday 29 June). Panel Chair: Dr Nick Bentley (Keele University) Narrative fiction has traditionally been viewed as a literary space that lends itself to the exploration of the psychological motivations and behaviours of characters with… Continue reading
The University of Leeds has been awarded a grant of £1.25m over 5 years from the Wellcome Trust ISSF to support biomedical and related research, which has been matched by an equal investment by the University. A major component of this funding will support early career researchers in order to enable them to realise their… Continue reading
Location: The event will take place at ArtsAdmin in London. Date: Friday 24th March 2017, starting at 11am. Deadline for abstracts: 5pm, Tuesday 10th January 2017. Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind is a one-day symposium that draws upon histories of madness, its exhibition and how it has been staged as cultural performance. Spectacular Evidence will also explore the… Continue reading
Sheffield Hallam University is currently offering funded PhD places. One in particular is ‘disability’ related (co-supervised by the Disability Research Forum’s Jen Slater). See below and follow this link for more information: Contextualising bullying and ‘vulnerability’ in the lives of LGBT and/or disabled young people Anti-bullying practice and advocacy often understands certain ‘types’ of young people,… Continue reading
Location: School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds Date: 21st – 23rd April 2017 Deadline for abstracts: 30th January 2017 Keynote Speakers (tbc): Martha Rosler, Marina Vishmidt Speak, body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life, will address the juncture of the “body” in art in relation to feminism(s) and capitalism,… Continue reading
CFP: Crip Genealogies Co-edited by Mel Chen, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich Abstracts: March 15, 2017 Full Papers: September 15, 2017 What is the color of disability? What are the possibilities for narrating an anti-racist, feminist story of disability studies? What relationships, orientations, and practices do different histories of the field foster—or… Continue reading
The Medical Humanities Research Centre Glasgow is delighted to announce the publication of Megan Coyer’s new monograph, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press | Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858. This text is the first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical culture In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education… Continue reading
The Institute of Medical Ethics is calling for papers for our 4th annual summer conference. This year we are seeking both abstract and panel proposals and will be having a specific stream for medical humanities research. The deadline for proposals is 31st January 2017. Building on the success of three previous conferences held in Edinburgh, Newcastle and… Continue reading
