Posts by Hannah Tweed

Visiting Speaker, Dr Cordelia Warr: ‘Noses and Skin Flaps: Gaspare Tagliacozzo’s De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem (1597)’, Glasgow

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All are welcome to attend the next Renaissance Art History seminar with Dr Cordelia Warr on Wednesday, 24th February, on ‘Noses and Skin Flaps: Gaspare Tagliacozzo’s De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem (1597)’ to take place at 17:15 in 7 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Hepburn Room (first floor). Dr Cordelia Warr (History of Art, University of Manchester) is… Continue reading →

Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network Website

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Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network Website Address: http://www.medical-humanities.glasgow.ac.uk Friday 22nd January saw the launch of the new Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network Website. With the site now live and fully functioning, we would like to cordially invite you to use it as a resource to engage with the range of medical humanities research taking place… Continue reading →

Seminars on Mental Health, Glasgow: Dr Louise Hide and Prof. John Foot, Wed 10th Feb

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By happy coincidence, the seminar papers in the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Series and Strathclyde School of Humanities Research Seminar Series on Wednesday 10th February both examine dimensions of post-war psychiatry. Details as follows: 1pm in room W308, Hamish Wood Building, Glasgow Caledonian University Dr Louise Hide (Birkbeck, University of… Continue reading →

CFP: 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference: Stages & Pages, 7-9 July, Dundee

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CFP: 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference: Stages & Pages Submit Abstracts by 12th Feb 2016 (1 week left!) 7th July-9th July 2016, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Scotland Keynote Speakers: Lynda Barry, Al Davison & Elisabeth El Refaie and a special workshop with Lynda Barry and Dan Chaon Theme: The theme of this year’s conference, Stages… Continue reading →

2016 Summer Course in Medical Humanities, Fondazione Lanza, Italy

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The Fondazione Lanza (Center for Advanced Studies in Ethics, Padova – Italy), in collaboration with the Chair of the History of Medicine at the University of Padua and the Department of Medical Humanities at the University of Marmara in Istanbul, is pleased to announce: The Third Edition of the Summer Course in Medical Humanities: Italian Perspectives… Continue reading →

Mason Institute Lunch Seminars, Spring 2016

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The Mason Institute is pleased to announce our lunchtime seminars for Spring 2016. On 16th February we will welcome Dr Amrit Ray (Chief Medical Officer, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson). We are pleased to co-host this seminar with the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Dr Ray will speak on ‘Ethical Challenges in Compassionate… Continue reading →

Seminar Series CFP: Disability and the Emotions, CCDS, Liverpool Hope

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Disability and the Emotions Seminar series hosted by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University. No crying in disability studies, that was the rule set by Joseph Shapiro’s No Pity in 1993, only to be broken a few years later by Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Catherine Prendergast at the 2000 MLA conference. In the… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Bridging the Divide: Literature and Science’, 3rd June 2016, Kent

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Bridging The Divide: Literature and Science – University of Kent Date: 3rd June 2016 ‘Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing’ – Thomas Huxley The relationship between literature and science has been a perennial subject of debate. Is there a divide between these two fields, or are they in… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Smart Health Technologies and their Social Worlds’, STS conference, Barcelona

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Track: (101) Smart [Bits and Atoms] Health Technologies and their Social Worlds 31st August – 3rd September 2016, Barcelona, Spain Co-convenors: Piera Morlacchi and Gill Haddow STS (4S/EASST) 2016 Conference ‘Science and Technology by other means: Exploring Collectives, Spaces and Futures’  Deadline and submission details: Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words by 21st February 2016 to Track 101 using the conference website. The aim… Continue reading →

Programme: Localism in the Medical Humanities, MHRNS workshop, University of Glasgow

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Localism in the Medical Humanities  Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland (MHRNS) Workshop Event Hosted by the Medical Humanities Research Centre (University of Glasgow) Co-organisers: Dr Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow) and Dr Claire McKechnie-Mason (Glasgow Centre for Population Health) Date: Saturday 19th March 2016 Location: 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow (Room 202) This workshop event… Continue reading →