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CFP: ‘Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities International Conference and Seminars’, Krakow

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Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities International Conference and Seminars Location: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Dates: 19th – 21st April 2017 Organizers: Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University in collaboration with Hejna Family Chair in Polish Literature and Language at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Centre… Continue reading →

CFP: Spirituality and Recovery Conference, Durham

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Location: University of Durham Date: 12th-14th July 2017 The Project for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Durham University in association with Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce its third conference exploring good practice in spirituality and mental health care. As more and more mental health service providers embrace a recovery approach to… Continue reading →

CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, Exeter

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Location: University of Exeter Date: 29th – 30th June 2017 Keynote Speakers: Victoria Bates (Bristol) Ina Linge (Cambridge) Hannah Morgan (Lancaster) The by now well established University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference is returning in 2017 for the fourth consecutive year to showcase the diversity of contemporary medical humanities research. Our conference this year will… Continue reading →

Seminar: ‘Benefits and Disbenefits of monitoring digital data for health purposes’, Edinburgh

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Seminar 5: Benefits and Disbenefits of monitoring digital data for health purposes Date: 10am-4pm, 1st March 2017 Location: University of Edinburgh,  Raeburn Room Bookings are now open for a seminar taking place on 1st March in Edinburgh. This seminar explores the conditions of ethical and lawful monitoring of employee workplace practices for the purposes of identifying risk of poor physical… Continue reading →

Seminar: Autism and Mental Health, Edinburgh

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Date: 9.30am – 4pm, Thursday 2nd March 2017 Location: Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh The Scottish Autism Research Group (SARG) are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the annual SARG one-day research seminar. The theme of the seminar is Autism and Mental Health. A variety of current research topics will be covered including anxiety, depression,… Continue reading →

CFP: Too Much Medicine: Exploring the Relevance of the Philosophy of Medicine to Medical Research and Practice, Oxford

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Location: Kellogg College, Oxford Date: 19th – 20th April 2017 Deadline: 28th February 2017 This cross-disciplinary conference will explore the emerging problem of ‘too much medicine’ (TMM) including overdiagnosis and overtreatment. TMM is likely to benefit from an interdisciplinary perspective for several reasons. One cause of TMM is arguably ‘disease mongering’ where for example risk factors are… Continue reading →

Conference Registration: Spirituality and Mental Health, Huddersfield

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Location: University of Huddersfield Date: 9.30am-4.30pm, Tuesday 11th July 2017 This one-day conference is being delivered by the University of Huddersfield in conjunction with the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SWYPT). It is open to all health and social care professionals, community and voluntary sector workers, service users and carers. Spirituality is innately human and… Continue reading →

Therapeutic Culture and Development Workshop, Sheffield

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Please join the Disability Research Forum for a workshop on therapeutic culture and international development on Friday March 17th, 11-5pm, at Sheffield Institute of International Development (SIID), University of Sheffield. Minds, behaviour and psychologies are fast becoming key frontiers in contemporary development policy. While the links between development and psychology have a long (colonial) history,… Continue reading →

CFP: First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse, Milan

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First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse (CHIMED-1) Location: University of Milan Date: 14th-16th June 2017 It is a pleasure to announce that the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Milan will host the “First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse” (CHIMED-1). The general interest of the conference concerns medical discourse in historical… Continue reading →

CFP: Comics & Medicine Conference, “Access Points”, Seattle

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CFP: 2017 Comics & Medicine Conference: Access Points Location: Seattle Public Library Central Branch Date: 15th – 17th June 2017 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Rupert Kinnard created the first LGBTQ-identified African American comic strip characters in his groundbreaking series Cathartic Comics. His comics work—including his much anticipated memoir-in-progress LifeCapsule Project—spans all facets of his personal identity, from race,… Continue reading →