Date: 15th-16th July 2016 The AHRC-funded network, ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind’, seeks to investigate the historical and discursive links between literary modernism, medical discoveries, and clinical practice, in dialogue with the insights of visual artists and art historians, dancers and dance scholars, and contemporary scientists and clinicians. Underpinning the project is the significance… Continue reading
Mood: an interdisciplinary two-day conference at the University of Warwick, 6th-7th May 2016. Keynote speakers: Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Author of Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and After 1945 – Latency as Origin of the Present (2013). Prof Giovanna Colombetti (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University… Continue reading
BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group 7th Annual Conference: Ageing and Culture Friday 26th February 2016 MICRA, University of Manchester This year the Ageing, Body and Society study group is holding its annual day conference in Manchester, in collaboration with MICRA, University of Manchester. The theme of the day is Ageing and Culture. We will also be celebrating the… Continue reading
The University of Kent is delighted to announce an interdisciplinary workshop and symposium on Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities, taking place in Canterbury on 21st-22nd April 2016 and funded by the Wellcome Trust. The events are accompanied by Prescriptions, an exhibition of artists’ books by Martha A. Hall and other artists from 21st April –… Continue reading
Bridging The Divide: Literature and Science – University of Kent Date: 3rd June 2016 ‘Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing’ – Thomas Huxley The relationship between literature and science has been a perennial subject of debate. Is there a divide between these two fields, or are they in… Continue reading
Track: (101) Smart [Bits and Atoms] Health Technologies and their Social Worlds 31st August – 3rd September 2016, Barcelona, Spain Co-convenors: Piera Morlacchi and Gill Haddow STS (4S/EASST) 2016 Conference ‘Science and Technology by other means: Exploring Collectives, Spaces and Futures’ Deadline and submission details: Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words by 21st February 2016 to Track 101 using the conference website. The aim… Continue reading
Emerging and New Researchers in the Geographies of Health and Impairment Conference Papers are invited for the 18th ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by and for post-graduates and early career researchers, with generous support from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Geography of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG). This longstanding conference offers a… Continue reading
CFP: Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental ill-health Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield Thursday 15th – Friday 16th September 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… Continue reading
Call for Papers: Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives An Interdisciplinary Two-day Conference at the University of Warwick 6th and 7th May 2016 Keynote speakers: Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Author of Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and After 1945… Continue reading
The Northern Network for Medical Humanities has finalised the programme for the Glasgow workshop on Friday 22nd January 2016. Location: Seminar Room One (Yudowitz), Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ. Travel bursaries are available for any postgraduate students wishing to attend. If you would like to register for the workshop – and possibly also a… Continue reading
