Posts by Hannah Tweed

CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, ‘International Perspectives on Performance, Disability, and Deafness’

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RiDE: the Journal of Applied Theatre & Performance Special themed issue: International Perspectives on Performance, Disability, and Deafness Co-edited by Carrie Sandahl (University of Illinois at Chicago), Yvonne Schmidt (Zurich University of the Arts), and Mark Swetz Advisory editor: Petra Kuppers (University of Michigan) This themed issue of RiDE, entitled ‘International Perspectives on Performance, Disability, and Deafness’… Continue reading →

CFP: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, St Anne’s College, Oxford

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Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016 Keynote speakers: Christopher Hamlin and Laura Otis In our current ‘Information Age’ we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global networks. The Victorians diagnosed similar… Continue reading →

PhD Studentship: French and the Medical Humanities, Nottingham Trent University

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Fully-funded PhD Studentship in French Literature/Culture (including cinema) with a focus on the Medical Humanities. Proposals investigating the following areas within this field are particularly welcome: representations of illness; disease; pain; trauma; disability; old age; mourning; care/caring/carer. A background in literary/critical theory is helpful. Specific qualifications include a 2:1 in French and an MA/MRes in… Continue reading →

Sensory Modernism(s) 2: Cultures of Perception, Leeds

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Snsory Modernism(s) 2: Cultures of Perception University of Leeds, 11th-12th December 2015 Sensory Modernism(s)#2 is a two-day interdisciplinary conference due to be held at the University of Leeds. The event, organised by the university’s Sensory Modernism(s) research group, follows the highly successful inaugural conference event held earlier this year. The conference will seek to address the… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century’, Newcastle

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Newcastle University Saturday 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, many of… Continue reading →

Lecture: Prof. Dan Malleck, ‘Drinks, drunks, and docs: medicine, policy, and twentieth century liquor control in Canada and the UK’, Strathclyde

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  On Wednesday 21st October, Professor Dan Malleck, of Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, will be giving a paper at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), University of Strathclyde, entitled: ‘Drinks, drunks, and docs: Medicine, policy, and twentieth century liquor control in Canada and the UK’.  Please join us at 2pm… Continue reading →

C. L. Oakley Lecture: Thomas Dixon, ‘Healing Tears: Crying for Your Health in Modern British Culture’, Leeds

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The C.L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts: Thomas Dixon (QMUL) – Tuesday 27th October, 5.30-7pm Maurice Keyworth Lecture Theatre (G.02), Leeds University Business School This lecture will trace the cultural history of medical ideas about tears and weeping in Britain since the early modern period. From the Shakespearean age to the present, medical theories about… Continue reading →

PhD Studentships, Oxford Brookes, History of Medicine

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Three year, full-time funded PhD Studentships available for January 2016 Bursary: £14,000 pa (with no inflation increase) to cover both Home/EU fees and Maintenance Deadline: The closing date for applications is 13:00 on Wednesday 4th November 2015 Interview date: Interviews will be held in week commencing 23rd November 2015. Start date: 25th January 2016 Eligibility:… Continue reading →

CFP: 24th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph, ‘Materialities of Care’

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Materialities of Care: Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture Editors: Christina Buse, Daryl Martin, and Sarah Nettleton (University of York) Proposals are invited for the 24th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph, which explores the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, interiors and architecture. Everyday… Continue reading →

CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Medical Humanities, “Pre-Health Humanities”

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Special Issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities: “Pre-Health Humanities” Guest Editors:  Sarah Berry and Erin Lamb We invite submissions for a special issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities that will explore the expanding field of Pre-Health Humanities or Health Humanities teaching and engagement at the pre-professional (i.e., baccalaureate or post-bacc levels). There are… Continue reading →