Posts by Hannah Tweed

CFP: ‘The Symposium of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies’, Liverpool Hope University

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Date: Wednesday 16th December 2015 Time: 9:30am–2:30pm Place: EDEN Arbour room, Liverpool Hope University, UK The Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS) is the institutional base for the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press) and the book series Literary Disability Studies (Palgrave Macmillan). Given that the journal is approaching its 10th anniversary… Continue reading →

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Stephen Bergman (Samuel Shem), RCGP conference, Glasgow

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We’d like to alert you to the first UK speaking tour for the author Samuel Shem – who has written possibly one of (if not the) the most influential medical novels in the 20th century. Professor Stephen Bergman (real name for Shem) and his wife/co-author Janet Surrey are doing some formal Medical Humanities events in Oxford… Continue reading →

CFP: ’Asylums, Pathologies, and the Themes of Madness’, Patrick McGrath Symposium, Stirling, January 2016

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Asylums, Pathologies and the Themes of Madness: Patrick McGrath and his Gothic Contemporaries University of Stirling, Scotland Saturday 16th January 2016 Keynote Event During the symposium we will be delighted to invite speakers and attendees to view exhibits from the newly acquired Patrick McGrath archive at the University of Stirling’s library. Keynote Speakers Professor Lucie Armitt, University of Lincoln… Continue reading →

Panel Discussion, Edinburgh: ‘Autism in the Spotlight: opportunities for autistic people on and off the stage’

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Thursday 27th August 2015, 6-7.30pm 50 George Square (Project Room 1.06), Edinburgh SARG and Access All Areas Theatre Company present a panel discussion: ‘Autism in the Spotlight: opportunities for autistic people on and off the stage’ Access All Areas Theatre Company have an exciting new one-man show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe: in ‘The Misfit… Continue reading →

Registration Open: ‘Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts’, 11 Sept 2015.

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Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 9am-6pm, Friday 11 September 2015 Registration is open for ‘Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts’ conference, to be hosted by the University of Glasgow on  Friday 11 Sept 2015.  Thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust, there is no fee to attend the… Continue reading →

CFP, Special Issue of JMH: ‘Love’s Labor: Representing Caregiving in the Family’

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Call for Papers:  Special Issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities Edited by Carol Schilling (Haverford College) and Mark Osteen (Loyola University Maryland) For a Special Issue of JMH tentatively titled “Love’s Labors: Representing Caregiving in the Family,” we seek scholarly essays on the topic of non-professional, familial caregiving.  We prefer papers written by academicians… Continue reading →

Survey: New Starter Grant for researchers in the Medical Humanities and Medically-related Social Sciences

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Building on the success of the Starter Grants Scheme for Clinical Lecturers, the Academy of Medical Sciences aims to develop a new grant scheme that provides funding for early career lecturers / researchers working within the medical humanities and medically-related social sciences. To get a better understanding about funding and career support needs, we would like to invite… Continue reading →

CFP: Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Conference, University of Glasgow

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Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 9am-6pm, Friday 11 September 2015   This interdisciplinary conference draws together two emerging and complementary areas of research in the medical humanities: book history (as it pertains to medical texts), and the study of medical paratexts. We understand paratext… Continue reading →

Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, University of Glasgow

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Announcing a new Wellcome-Trust funded project headed by Dr Gavin Miller, Director of the Medical Humanities Research Centre in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. The project investigates the significance of science fiction for the medical humanities, and is intended to pathfind for a future, large-scale research project. Science fiction isn’t confined to novels,… Continue reading →

Research Assistant: Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, University of Glasgow

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School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow Job Purpose This is a 1-year part-time research position to contribute to the Wellcome Trust funded research project investigating the relationship between science fiction and the medical humanities. The project pathfinds for a future large-scale research project by developing a portfolio of exploratory activities and outputs. The Research… Continue reading →