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Conference Registration: ‘Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures’, Glasgow

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Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures Date: Monday 3rd – Tuesday 4th April 2017 Location: Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LQ Organizing Committee: Dr Gavin Miller (Chair), Medical Humanities Research Centre/English Literature, University of Glasgow Dr Sofia Xenofontos, Classics, University of Glasgow Dr Cheryl McGeachan, Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow… Continue reading →

CFP: Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope

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Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies Date: 5th-6th July 2017 Location: Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University Keynote Speakers: Prof. Robert McRuer, George Washington University Prof. Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Metropolitan University Interdisciplinarity is pivotal in the development of the academy for many reasons, some of which form the conceptual… Continue reading →

CFP: Reading Bodies, Writing Minds, Nottingham

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Date: 13th April 2017 Location: Highfield House, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus Reading Bodies, Writing Minds is a one-day conference to be held at the University of Nottingham on 13 April 2017. The conference will investigate representations from the arts and social sciences of suffering, seeing, and treating mental illness. This interdisciplinary event is intended… Continue reading →

Medsin Annual Conference: ‘Medicine and Conflict: Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health’, Glasgow.

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Humanitarian crises have never been more visible, both here in the UK and abroad. We see mass migration as a consequence of violence and conflicts, forcing people to seek asylum in Europe and elsewhere. In the UK, the effects of austerity are being felt in all areas of the country, with the gap between rich… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘VariAbilities III: The Same Only Different?’, London, 6-7 June 2017

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VariAbilities III: The Same Only Different? Location: Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E Date: Tuesday 6th – Wednesday 7th June 2017 In the third iteration of the Variabilities Series, we will take stock of the academic work done on the “body” in “history”. When we study the “Body” should we restrict ourselves to impaired… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Doctor, Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor-Patient Relationship’, Oxford

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Location and date: University of Oxford, 24th March 2017 Deadline: 30th November 2016   “Two distinct and separate parties interact with one another – not one mind (the physician’s), not one body (the patient’s), but two minds and two bodies.” – Jay Katz, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient (1984) The doctor-patient relationship is the primary… Continue reading →

UK Medical Heritage Library Events, London

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The UK Medical Heritage Library is making 68,000 19th century texts relating to the history of medicine freely available to all. We’re working with the Wellcome Library on this three-year project along with nine other UK universities who are all contributing content to this collection. The collection is openly available via the Wellcome Library and the Internet… Continue reading →

Conference: Towards Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies, London (UCL)

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Towards Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies: A One day International Conference Location: UCL Health Humanities Centre / Institute of Advanced Studies Date: 15 October 2016 Suspended between science, medicine, religion, art and philosophy, the advent of modern psychotherapies represents one of the distinctive features of 20th-century Western societies, and they are increasing being exported to the rest of… Continue reading →

CFP Extended: ‘Other Psychotherapies’ conference, Glasgow

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CFP EXTENDED – new deadline FRIDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2016 Monday 3rd April – Tues 4th April 2017 University of Glasgow The Wellcome Trust-funded Conference ‘Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures’ brings contemporary Western expertise into dialogue with psychotherapeutic approaches from ‘other’ spatially, historically or otherwise ‘distant’ cultures. The Conference Committee invites abstracts of… Continue reading →

CFP: Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope

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Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies 5-6 July, 2017 Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University Interdisciplinarity is pivotal in the development of the academy for many reasons, some of which form the conceptual framework of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies. Although far from straightforward in… Continue reading →