‘A Secret Worth Knowing: Living Mad Lives in the Shadow of the Asylum’ Dr Michael Rembis, University at Buffalo Date: 2-3.30pm, Wednesday 10th May 2017 Location: EDEN 109, Liverpool Hope University Dr Rembis explores the emotional lives of women and men living in the 19th century United States who considered themselves “mad” or “insane,” or who… Continue reading
Palgrave Communications is an open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan dedicated to publishing high quality original research across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Article proposals and full submissions are now being sought for this special issue. This article collection, edited by Professor Matthew Smith and Dr Lucas Richert (University of Strathclyde), will examine how the relationship… Continue reading
Following the Medical Humanities workshop at the National Library of Scotland in February 2017, the Scottish Medical Humanities Group is delighted to announce a new pilot website for the medical humanities in Scotland, set up by Prof. Nell Turner: www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org. This site could develop to have hundreds of posts, relevant to all specialties and professions, as well as to… Continue reading
CFP: The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body Location: Kings College London Date: 18th–19th June 2018 Deadline: 31st July 2017 Organisers: Ellen Adams (Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology, Kings College London) Emma-Jayne Graham (Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University) The influence of the classical bodily ideal on Western notions of beauty has… Continue reading
BSA Regional Postgraduate Event: ‘Medical Interpreting under a Sociological Lens: Power Relations and Disembodiment’ Location: Byrne House, University of Exeter (click here to view a campus map) Date: Wednesday, 10th of May 2017 Organiser: Dr Teodora Manea Hauskeller: University of Exeter Speakers: Prof Rachel Tribe: University of East London. Prof Susan Kelly: University of Exeter, Dr Catherine… Continue reading
CFP: Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability, and the Media Location: Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster, London Date: 9am-6pm, 23rd June 2017 Deadline: 28th April 2017 This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media. The advent of digital… Continue reading
CFP: Care and Machines: an interdisciplinary conference on caring relationships with technologies Location: University of Manchester Date: 20th – 21st October 2017 Deadline: 1st June 2017 The event will provide researchers from a variety of fields with the opportunity to come together and to discuss and reflect upon what is meant by ‘care’ in a world… Continue reading
Announcement from the newly-founded Arts Health Early Career Research Network: An exciting new Network for Early Career Researchers interested in arts and health is being funded by the British Academy. The network is open to any early career researchers – please get involved! The Arts Health ECRN brings together early career researchers working on projects that lie at the intersection… Continue reading
Disability Gains for the Academy: Exploring Pedagogies in Disability Studies Date: Thursday 18th May 2017 Location: Liverpool Hope University Call extended to Friday 5th May 2017 The field of disability studies is recognised and valued for research and practice across disciplines in the UK and beyond. This symposium aims to explore distinctive approaches to… Continue reading
Revd Dr Alistair Ross, ‘Psychoanalysis and religion: auld enmity or new alliance?’ Date: Wednesday 26th April 2017, at 6.30pm Location: Lauriston Hall, 28 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh Charge: £12 including refreshments Increasingly, we live in a world of binary distinctions, with little place for nuance or inhabiting the ‘space between’. Yet inhabiting the ‘space between’ is central to the… Continue reading
