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
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
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
As part of the British Academy funded project, ‘A Tapestry of Tales: Investigating the Historical Geographies of Art Therapy and ‘Art Extraordinary’ in Scotland’ an event entitled ‘Sharing Reflections: Scottish Outsider Art and Art Extraordinary’ is being hosted at the CCA on Friday 4th December (see programme below) at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)… Continue reading
University of Glasgow Monday 4th July 2016 The Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project invites abstracts for its concluding conference. Science fiction is a fertile ground for the imagining of biomedical advances: technologies such as cloning, prosthetics, and rejuvenation are frequently encountered in science-fiction storytelling. Science fiction also offers alternative ideals of… Continue reading
Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 9.45am-5pm, Wednesday 20th April 2016 Attendance: £25 full, £15 concession, free for BSA members 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)… Continue reading
Special issue: Literature for Young People Guest editors: Chloë Hughes and Elizabeth A. Wheeler This special issue of the JLCDS aims to bring together an international and multidisciplinary base of readers and writers who explore disability in literature published for young people. While disability and deafness have often featured in literature for young people, their… Continue reading
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
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
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
