Workshop: Imagineering the Future Date: 9am-5pm, Friday 10th June 2016 Location: Room 526, James Watt Building, University of Glasgow Programme: Available here The objective of the workshop is to identify key questions for the future from a range of perspectives across the physical and life sciences, engineering, arts and social sciences. Themes to be considered include: Visions… Continue reading
Location: Newcastle University Date: Sat 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,… Continue reading
Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leeds Wednesday 18th May 2016, 2-4pm I like now to think of the Obetrol and other subtypes of speed as more of a kind of signpost or directional sign, pointing to what might be possible if I could become more aware and alive in daily life. David Foster Wallace,… Continue reading
The Disability Studies Student Society Symposium at Liverpool Hope University hopes to bring together students across the North-West (and beyond) to share, discuss and advise on research methodologies in disability studies. We invite submissions of abstracts of up to 300 words for paper presentations that detail methodological approaches to research projects, both those that have… Continue reading
Date: Friday 15th April 2016 from 09:30 to 15:30 (BST) Location: Gannochy Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ (View Map) Registration: Visit the Eventbrite page here. The Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project at the University of Glasgow has opened registration for the third and final workshop of 2016. Previous workshops discussed the… Continue reading
Undercover: Institutional abuse, covert investigations and history This half-day workshop will bring together cultural historians and media practitioners to explore how ideas of authority and ‘truth’ are embodied in both the person recording the abuse and the means or medium through which it is exposed. Speakers include: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck) on the interviewing of a… Continue reading
Date: 10th May 2016 Location: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE This conference will entertain and educate, exploring mental health through the eyes of the ancient world, and taking a tour through history. It will include highlights by Professor Julian Hughes such as “If only the ancients had DSM 5, all would… Continue reading
Location: Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Date: Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th September 2016 Deadline for proposals: Friday 3rd June 2016 Keynote speakers: Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University NY Andrew Kötting, artist and filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts This Wellcome-funded interdisciplinary conference aims to support and foster collaborative… Continue reading
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building (L5), Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow Date: Wed 20th April 2016 Attendance: £25 full, £15 concession, free for BSA members Registration is now open for the Disability and Shakespearean Theatre symposium. Please visit our Eventbrite page to register – all welcome! This symposium draws together growing research interest in disability… Continue reading
Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental Ill-health Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield 15th- 16th Sept 2016 In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously, silent, marginalised and… Continue reading
