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

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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 up to 300 words for 20-minute presentations, to be… Continue reading →

Registration: ‘Young Citizens and Society: Fostering Civic Participation’, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

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The School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, is pleased to host its second Contemporary Childhood Conference, which will take place on 2-3 September 2016. Citizenship and Civic Education take a range of forms, but the overall goal is to support children and young people’s participation in their immediate society and the wider… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Dementia Lab: the Role of Design 2016’, Essen, Germany

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Call for participation: Dementia Lab: the Role of Design 2016 Essen, Germany 14 and 15 September, 2016 Design educators of all disciplines, design researchers and designers are invited to attend this two-day event on designing together with people with dementia. Design in all of its forms, from graphic and product design to industrial design and… Continue reading →

Conference: Biopolitics and Psychosomatics: ‘Participating Bodies’, Cambridge

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Friday 8th July 2016, University of Cambridge Online registration is now open to book your place. The standard fee is £30 (includes lunch and teas/coffees). The fee for students/unwaged is £15. The deadline for registration is Friday 1 July 2016 at 12 noon. Patient involvement, participation and empowerment are keywords at the forefront of the politics… Continue reading →

Workshop: ‘Medical Objects: An Interdisciplinary Workshop’, London

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Medical Objects: An Interdisciplinary Workshop 13 July 2016 at Birkbeck School of Arts Venue: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London 10am-6pm 13 July 2015. Lunch and refreshments provided An interdisciplinary enquiry into objects in medicine, featuring papers on medical technologies, texts, therapies and research objects, and the theoretical and disciplinary questions they raise. Registration is free… Continue reading →

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

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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 up to 300 words for 20-minute presentations, to be… Continue reading →

‘[O]ur wits are so diversely coloured’: Thoughts on the 2016 Disability and Shakespearean Theatre Symposium at Glasgow University

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By Jessi Parrot (@messijessijumps) In the public imagination, it would seem, disability and Shakespeare are not the most obvious pairing – that is, if the recent adaptation of the London tube map to feature all of Shakespeare’s characters in place of station names is anything to go by. Indeed, according to the image, commissioned by the… Continue reading →

Registration: International Comics & Medicine Conference, ‘Stages & Pages’, Dundee

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Date: Thursday 7th July – Saturday 9th July 2016 Location: Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, Dundee, DD1 5EN (View Map) Registration: £20-£80 (student discounts and single-day tickets available). Register at the Eventbrite page. Keynote Speakers: Lynda Barry, Al Davison, and Elisabeth El Rafaie, with a special workshop run by Lynda Barry & Dan Chaon The theme of this year’s… Continue reading →

Registration: Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities Conference, Glasgow

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Date: Monday 4th July 2016, 9am to 6pm  Location: Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8SU (View Map) Organizing Committee: Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane Keynote Speakers: Dr Luna Dolezal, University of Durham & Trinity College Dublin Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University of London Professor Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading The Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Morbid Laughter: Exploring the Comic Dimensions of Disease in Classical Antiquity’, Patras, Greece

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Call for Papers: Morbid Laughter: Exploring the Comic Dimensions of Disease in Classical Antiquity Location: Department of Classics, University of Patras (Greece) Dates: Monday 12th – Tuesday 13th September 2016 Confirmed speakers include: Edith Hall (King’s College, London), Georgia Petridou (Erfurt University), Ian Ruffell (University of Glasgow), Dimos Spatharas (University of Crete), Chiara Thumiger (Warwick University). We welcome abstracts for papers… Continue reading →