Posts by Hannah Tweed

Conference Registration: ‘The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century’, Newcastle, 18 June 2016

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Location: Newcastle University Date: Sat 18th June 2016 ‘Sciences we now retrospectively regard as heterodox or marginal cannot be considered unambiguously to have held that status at a time when no clear orthodoxy existed that could confer that status upon them’ (Alison Winter, 1997). The nineteenth century witnessed the drive to consolidate discrete scientific disciplines,… Continue reading →

CFP: Special issue of Disability and the Global South: ‘Intersecting Indigeneity, Colonisation and Disability’

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Special issue of Disability and the Global South: Intersecting Indigeneity, Colonisation and Disability Guest Editors: Karen Soldatic (The Critical Institute) and John Gilroy (University of Sydney) Deadline for abstracts: 1st September 2016 There is growing global recognition of the role of disability in shaping the lives of Indigenous peoples and the significance of having an Indigenous cultural… Continue reading →

Workshop, University of Edinburgh: ‘Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Science funding event’

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Tuesday 3rd May 2016, 10.30am – 12.30pm Teviot Row House, Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AJ The University of Edinburgh is hosting a visit from the Wellcome Trust to discuss their Humanities and Social Science funding. The event will focus on the Trust’s HSS strategy, funding schemes and Provision for Public Engagement. Agenda: 10.30 – 11.00… Continue reading →

Workshop, University of Leeds: ‘The Cultural Life of Smart Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Workshop’

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Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leeds Wednesday 18th May 2016, 2-4pm I like now to think of the Obetrol and other subtypes of speed as more of a kind of signpost or directional sign, pointing to what might be possible if I could become more aware and alive in daily life. David Foster Wallace,… Continue reading →

Funded PhD Studentship, University of Glasgow: ‘Children with Learning Disabilities as Digital Audiences’

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AHRC funded PhD studentship at the University of Glasgow in collaboration with BBC Scotland: “Children with Learning Disabilities as Digital Audiences” Applications are invited for a full PhD studentship in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow to work in collaboration with the Children’s Department at BBC Scotland. The aim of the project… Continue reading →

CFP: Disability Studies Student Society Symposium, Liverpool Hope University

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The Disability Studies Student Society Symposium at Liverpool Hope University hopes to bring together students across the North-West (and beyond) to share, discuss and advise on research methodologies in disability studies. We invite submissions of abstracts of up to 300 words for paper presentations that detail methodological approaches to research projects, both those that have… Continue reading →

Registration Open: ‘The Politics of Science-Fiction Medicine’, Glasgow

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Date: Friday 15th April 2016 from 09:30 to 15:30 (BST) Location: Gannochy Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ (View Map) Registration: Visit the Eventbrite page here. The Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project at the University of Glasgow has opened registration for the third and final workshop of 2016. Previous workshops discussed the… Continue reading →

Workshop: ‘Undercover: Institutional Abuse, Covert Investigations and History’, London

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Undercover: Institutional abuse, covert investigations and history This half-day workshop will bring together cultural historians and media practitioners to explore how ideas of authority and ‘truth’ are embodied in both the person recording the abuse and the means or medium through which it is exposed. Speakers include: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck) on the interviewing of a… Continue reading →

Lecture: Jen Novotny, ‘To “take their place among the productive members of society”: Treating WWI wounded at Erskine in 1916’, Glasgow

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You are warmly invited to the next WWI lunchtime talk at the University of Glasgow on Friday, 18 March 2016 at 13.15 in the University Chapel. Dr Jen Novotny, University of Glasgow:  ‘To “take their place among the productive members of society”: Treating WWI wounded at Erskine in 1916.” One hundred years ago in March… Continue reading →

Interdisciplinary One-Day Seminar (MVLS and Arts): ‘The Child’, Glasgow

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MVLS/ARTS inter-disciplinary seminar: ‘The Child’. Date: Friday 8th April 2016 Location: Rooms 408 and 409, Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow All welcome – attendance is free and lunch provided so please email Professor Lury (karen.lury@glasgow.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend. The aim of this seminar/workshop is to bring together colleagues from diverse disciplines – media studies, historians,… Continue reading →