Date: Wednesday 20th April 2016 This symposium draws together growing research interest in disability studies and Shakespearean theatre. In discussing the depiction, treatment, and uses of disability in Shakespeare’s work (and that of his contemporaries) alongside analysis of the role of disability in staging of his plays, we hope to encourage interaction between creative practitioners, historians,… Continue reading
2016 International Conference on Medical Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Foundation Date: 11th – 12th March 2016 Location: As-Bud Conference Centre, Al. Jerozolimskie 81, Warsaw, Poland Keynote speaker: Prof. Andrzej Kapusta, Maria-Curie Skłodowska University The conference will explore the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It will promote an interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, health care and the body.… Continue reading
Call for Papers: 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference: Stages & Pages Thursday 7th – Saturday 9th July 2016 Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Scotland Keynote Speakers: Lynda Barry, Al Davison, and Elisabeth El Refaie, and a special workshop with Lynda Barry and Dan Chaon Theme: The theme of this year’s conference, Stages & Pages, invites us to… Continue reading
Location: Yodowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ Date: 10am-5pm, Friday 22nd January 2016 The workshop programme for the first 2016 meeting of the NNMH is now available: 10.00-10.45: Arrival, Coffee and Welcome (Atrium) 10.45-12.00: Session One: Posthuman Medical Humanities Dr Sarah Cockram, History, Glasgow University: ‘Living with Companion Animals at… Continue reading
Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future 7th – 8th January 2016, St Anne’s College Oxford by the NeuroLaw Network group The increasing production and use of human enhancement technologies, such as drugs to improve cognition and integrated neuroprosthetics, will challenge for existing legal frameworks. These and similar technologies are not easily accommodated… Continue reading
Glasgow Encounters with Tropical Disease Friday 8th January 2016 Many of the diseases that are endemic to developing countries in the tropics are caused by parasites. An extraordinary number of these parasites were first discovered by Scottish scientists and doctors, many of whom were graduates of the University of Glasgow. This symposium, organised by the… Continue reading
University of Glasgow Monday 4th July 2016 The Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project invites abstracts for its concluding conference. Science fiction is a fertile ground for the imagining of biomedical advances: technologies such as cloning, prosthetics, and rejuvenation are frequently encountered in science-fiction storytelling. Science fiction also offers alternative ideals of… Continue reading
Following ‘Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts’, Harry Newman and Louise Powell have written short conference reflections (published below). As conference organisers, we would like to thank everyone who participated in the event, and added to what we found to be diverse and wide-ranging discussion. Thank you! Best, Hannah, Diane, Johanna and Francesca medicalparatexts@gmail.com Conference… Continue reading
Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 9.45am-5pm, Wednesday 20th April 2016 Attendance: £25 full, £15 concession, free for BSA members This symposium draws together growing research interest in disability studies and Shakespearean theatre. In discussing the depiction, treatment, and uses of disability in Shakespeare’s work (and that of his contemporaries)… Continue reading
Snsory Modernism(s) 2: Cultures of Perception University of Leeds, 11th-12th December 2015 Sensory Modernism(s)#2 is a two-day interdisciplinary conference due to be held at the University of Leeds. The event, organised by the university’s Sensory Modernism(s) research group, follows the highly successful inaugural conference event held earlier this year. The conference will seek to address the… Continue reading
