The Northern Network for Medical Humanities has finalised the programme for the Glasgow workshop on Friday 22nd January 2016. Location: Seminar Room One (Yudowitz), Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ. Travel bursaries are available for any postgraduate students wishing to attend. If you would like to register for the workshop – and possibly also a… Continue reading
Date: Wednesday 20th April 2016 This symposium draws together growing research interest in disability studies and Shakespearean theatre. In discussing the depiction, treatment, and uses of disability in Shakespeare’s work (and that of his contemporaries) alongside analysis of the role of disability in staging of his plays, we hope to encourage interaction between creative practitioners, historians,… Continue reading
2016 International Conference on Medical Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Foundation Date: 11th – 12th March 2016 Location: As-Bud Conference Centre, Al. Jerozolimskie 81, Warsaw, Poland Keynote speaker: Prof. Andrzej Kapusta, Maria-Curie Skłodowska University The conference will explore the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It will promote an interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, health care and the body.… Continue reading
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow invite you to a series of seminars on medical history, medical humanities and related topics. Tuesday 19th January 2016 Dr Hazel Morrison (Durham University), ‘The trans-Atlantic movement of dynamic psychiatry to Gartnavel Mental Hospital, 1908-1921: a conversational perspective’ Tuesday 16th… Continue reading
Health Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality York University, Toronto, Canada http://ht.journals.yorku.ca Submission Deadline: 15th May 2016 Borders are constructed to regulate the movement of people, resources, and information, as well as to structure and appraise different forms of knowledge. They can also be used to isolate the causes of adverse health effects, protect equitable standards, recognize different health… Continue reading
You are warmly invited to join ECMA on Friday 15th January for a seminar from Dr Alex Nading followed by a wine reception to celebrate the launch of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology. Dr Nading will present his paper, “Constitutive Outsides” and Incorporeal Signals: Performing Nicaraguan Food Safety. Time: 3-5pm, Friday 15th January 2016 Location:… Continue reading
‘Different Adulthoods: Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories’, special issue of Feminism and Psychology ‘Development’ as a unitary, universal and consistent process has been subject to significant critique by critical developmental psychologists such as Erica Burman. The contribution of Burman’s work to interrogating ‘development’ in childhood has been acknowledged recently in the special issue of Feminism… Continue reading
Regulation in Action: Social Orders in Scientific Biomedicine Insights from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have profoundly altered our understanding of the relation between technoscience and politics. Rather than viewing them as separate spheres, STS scholars have demonstrated that epistemic and social orders are coproduced. Further, by moving attention to the effects… Continue reading
We invite you to submit an essay of no more than 1,600 words in length by 31st March 2016, for the Fourth Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition. The winners will receive prizes of $1,500 and selected participants will have their articles published in Hektoen International. Two prizes will be awarded: Military Prize—on a medical topic related… Continue reading
Funded PhDs are now being advertised at Sheffield Hallam University. Two projects within ‘education’ are relevant to those interested in disability studies. Project 3: Exploring the body in education: thinking through gender and dis/ability Although the place of the body within education has been theorised in relation to gender and sexuality (e.g. Paechter, 2004), rarely does… Continue reading
