Posts by Hannah Tweed

Call For Papers: edited collection, ‘Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies’, ed. by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson et al.

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Call For Papers: Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies Edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Katie Ellis, Mike Kent and Rachel Robertson The collection is a new contribution to global interdisciplinary disability studies. The book will consist of contributions from established and new voices in international disability studies outlining their own manifestos for the future of the field.  Interdisciplinary fields covered will… Continue reading →

CFP: edited collection, ‘Healthcare in Motion: Mobility Forms in Health Service Delivery and Access’

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Healthcare in Motion: Mobility Forms in Health Service Delivery and Access Editors: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros (UCL), Anne E. Pfister (UNF), and Ginger A. Johnson (Anthrologica) Healthcare in Motion will explore the diversity of mobility forms associated with healthcare. It will consider both mobility and healthcare as complex cultural and political processes, which are influenced by global… Continue reading →

Workshop: ‘Science Fiction, Medicine, and Utopia’, Glasgow

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Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, University of Glasgow Date: Friday 26th February 2016 Registration: free via our Eventbrite page This workshop seeks to explore the links between science fiction, utopia, and medicine. Utopian literature and philosophy contributed immensely to the establishment of science fiction as a genre and as a social discourse. We will be… Continue reading →

Fully-funded Life of Breath PhD at Durham University

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The Life of Breath research project at Durham University is offering a funded full-time anthropology PhD studentship, commencing Autumn 2016. The PhD student will study, record, analyse and reflect on the dynamics of the project’s special interest group as it evolves over time. This group will bring stakeholders with an interest in breath, breathing and breathlessness… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Stages and Pages’, 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference, Dundee

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Call for Papers: 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference: Stages & Pages Thursday 7th – Saturday 9th July 2016 Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Scotland Keynote Speakers: Lynda Barry, Al Davison, and Elisabeth El Refaie, and a special workshop with Lynda Barry and Dan Chaon   Theme: The theme of this year’s conference, Stages & Pages, invites us to… Continue reading →

CFP: edited collection, ‘Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts, Medieval to Modern’

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From Christina Lee and Freya Harrison’s discovery of the MRSA-combatting properties of an Anglo-Saxon recipe, to the increasing popularity of Ian Williams’ Graphic Medicine as a teaching tool for medical students, current research into the intersections between medicine, text, and image is producing dynamic and unexpected results (Thorpe: 2015; Lee and Harrison: 2015; Taavitsainen: 2010;… Continue reading →

‘Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series’, Edinburgh, Jan – March 2016

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Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series, Semester Two 2015-16 All STIS seminars are held in the Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square). Monday 11th January, 3.30-5.00pm: Dr Tiago Moreira (Durham University), ‘Assembling the “ageing society”‘ Monday 18th January, 3.30-5.00pm: Dr Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester), ‘Roadmaps and Pipelines,… Continue reading →

Northern Network for Medical Humanities Workshop, Glasgow, 22nd January 2016

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Location: Yodowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ Date: 10am-5pm, Friday 22nd January 2016 The workshop programme for the first 2016 meeting of the NNMH is now available: 10.00-10.45: Arrival, Coffee and Welcome (Atrium) 10.45-12.00: Session One: Posthuman Medical Humanities Dr Sarah Cockram, History, Glasgow University: ‘Living with Companion Animals at… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future’, St Anne’s College Oxford

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Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future 7th – 8th January 2016, St Anne’s College Oxford by the NeuroLaw Network group The increasing production and use of human enhancement technologies, such as drugs to improve cognition and integrated neuroprosthetics, will challenge for existing legal frameworks. These and similar technologies are not easily accommodated… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘The Poetics of Science’, Kenyon Review

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How does science inspire the literary imagination? Can science writing be a literary art? The Kenyon Review is looking for poetry, fiction, essays, and drama that respond to issues in science, ecology, and the environment for a special issue to be published in Sept/Oct 2016. Good science writing isn’t only about science: it is also… Continue reading →