Posts by Hannah Tweed

CFP: Emerging and New Researchers in the Geographies of Health and Impairment, University of Glasgow, 16th-17th June 2016

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Emerging and New Researchers in the Geographies of Health and Impairment Conference Papers are invited for the 18th ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by and for post-graduates and early career researchers, with generous support from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Geography of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG). This longstanding conference offers a… Continue reading →

Frisby Lecture 2016 with Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Berkeley), University of Glasgow

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This year’s Frisby Lecture at the University of Glasgow will be given by Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley). The lecture will take place on Wednesday 2nd March, in the Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre (16.00-18.00). There will be a drinks reception following the lecture, which is free to attend and open to all.… Continue reading →

Glasgow University Medical Humanities Discussion Group (2016)

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Medical Humanities Discussion Group Chair: Dr Cheryl McGeachan The medical humanities discussion group are very pleased to announce the times and topics for this Semester’s presentations. All sessions take place between 1pm and 2pm in Room 311 in the East Quadrangle. Directions are provided below.                     … Continue reading →

Launch of GU Medical Humanities Network Website

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Thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Glasgow University medical humanities network website is now live and ready for use, at http://medical-humanities.glasgow.ac.uk/. You can use it to find out about everything medical humanities-related at Glasgow, including scholars, projects, teaching materials, collections, and events. The website is a capacity-building initiative for the medical humanities at… Continue reading →

CFP: Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental ill-health, University of Huddersfield

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CFP: Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental ill-health Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield Thursday 15th – Friday 16th September 2016 In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of… Continue reading →

CFP: Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives

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Call for Papers: Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives An Interdisciplinary Two-day Conference at the University of Warwick 6th and 7th May 2016 Keynote speakers: Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Author of Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and After 1945… Continue reading →

Programme, University of Strathclyde School of Humanities Seminar Series

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Please find detailed below the programme for the University of Strathclyde School of Humanities seminar series for this term, organised by Caroline Verdier, Petya Eckler, Emma Newlands and myself. The seminars take place on Wednesdays at 4pm in room LH227a/b in the Lord Hope Building, with the exceptions of 23rdand 30th of March when they take… Continue reading →

Spring 2016 Seminar Series Programme, CSHHH, Glasgow

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Wednesday 10th February Dr Louise Hide, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Mixing the sexes. New therapeutic spaces in English psychiatric hospitals from the 1950s to 1990s’.   Thursday 25th February Dr Martin Gorsky, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: ‘The idea of a “health system” in research and policy, 1891-1976’. This seminar is being organised… Continue reading →

Baily Thomas Doctoral Fellowships, focused on disability studies

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The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund are pleased to announce the inaugural round of its Baily Thomas Doctoral Fellowships. Up to two fellowships will be awarded each year to support promising researchers to complete a PhD on a topic relevant to people with learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities). Please click here to follow this link for further guidance and… Continue reading →

CFP: Studies in Gothic Fiction Special Issue – Disabled Gothic Bodies

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Call for Papers: Studies in Gothic Fiction Special Issue – Disabled Gothic Bodies Guest Editor: Dr. Alan Gregory The Gothic is a mode that displays a sustained cultural fascination with the disabled body. As David Punter notes, ‘the history of … dealings with the disabled body runs throughout the history of the Gothic, a history… Continue reading →