Newcastle University Saturday 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, many of… Continue reading
London, May 26th-27th 2016 Public and academic discussions on the end of diseases are abundant in the midst of recent epidemic crises. Faltering vaccination rates have seen old diseases, like measles and whooping cough resurface to epidemic proportions in the Global North. Several global epidemic crises, such as the swine flu and ebola, have prompted… Continue reading
29th – 31st January 2016 University of Edinburgh This is the third in a series of conferences that aims to accelerate interest and research into Scottish death studies. The theme for 2016 is death and identity. Papers are invited to explore this subject within any period from the medieval into the modern day from any… Continue reading
BSLS Symposium: ‘Science in the Archives’ Saturday 14th November 2015 Museum of English Rural Life and University of Reading’s Special Collections Archival research has long been a mainstay of literature and science as a discipline, challenging the boundaries of what can be read as text and excavating long-submerged concepts and connections. The recent growth in… Continue reading
Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts University of Glasgow | Friday 11th September 2015 We have finalised the schedule and are counting down to the conference! Please download the schedule here. We are really excited by the diversity of the attendees who have registered so far and by the range and standard of the research being presented. We… Continue reading
On behalf of Liverpool John Moores University medical humanities group: Liverpool John Moores University is delighted to announce a symposium on ‘Connecting Minds – Arts and Dementia’. This symposium will be held on Friday 4th September 2015, 9.00-17.00, at Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, 4th Floor Events Suite. The ‘Connecting Minds’ symposium is intended to encourage… Continue reading
Date: Wednesday 16th December 2015 Time: 9:30am–2:30pm Place: EDEN Arbour room, Liverpool Hope University, UK The Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS) is the institutional base for the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press) and the book series Literary Disability Studies (Palgrave Macmillan). Given that the journal is approaching its 10th anniversary… Continue reading
We’d like to alert you to the first UK speaking tour for the author Samuel Shem – who has written possibly one of (if not the) the most influential medical novels in the 20th century. Professor Stephen Bergman (real name for Shem) and his wife/co-author Janet Surrey are doing some formal Medical Humanities events in Oxford… Continue reading
Asylums, Pathologies and the Themes of Madness: Patrick McGrath and his Gothic Contemporaries University of Stirling, Scotland Saturday 16th January 2016 Keynote Event During the symposium we will be delighted to invite speakers and attendees to view exhibits from the newly acquired Patrick McGrath archive at the University of Stirling’s library. Keynote Speakers Professor Lucie Armitt, University of Lincoln… Continue reading
Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 9am-6pm, Friday 11 September 2015 Registration is open for ‘Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts’ conference, to be hosted by the University of Glasgow on Friday 11 Sept 2015. Thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust, there is no fee to attend the… Continue reading
