Medical Humanities Discussion Group Chair: Dr Cheryl McGeachan The medical humanities discussion group are very pleased to announce the times and topics for this Semester’s presentations. All sessions take place between 1pm and 2pm in Room 311 in the East Quadrangle. Directions are provided below. … Continue reading
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, University of Glasgow Date: Friday 26th February 2016 Registration: free via our Eventbrite page This workshop seeks to explore the links between science fiction, utopia, and medicine. Utopian literature and philosophy contributed immensely to the establishment of science fiction as a genre and as a social discourse. We will be… Continue reading
1-2pm, Wednesday 25th November 2015 Arden Hegele (Columbia University), ‘Pathography and Romanticism’ Discussant: Professor Deborah Dixon (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences) In this talk, I investigate the relationship between lifewriting and the medical case study by considering their intersection in the 19th-century genre of the ‘pathography’ — the autobiographical narrative of illness. I argue that… Continue reading
1-2pm, Wednesday 11th November 2015 Dr Mia Spiro (School of Critical Studies), ‘Between two Worlds: The Possessing Spirit of The Dybbuk in Interwar Jewish Theatre’ Discussant: Prof. Chris Philo (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences) In the preface to his play script, The Dybbuk (1914) S. Ansky writes ‘throughout the play there is a battle between …… Continue reading
Save the date: the Northern Network for Medical Humanities will be holding a Glasgow research workshop meeting on Friday 22nd January 2016. The day will be a showcase for research in the medical humanities in Glasgow, and will be followed by the launch of the Glasgow University Medical Humanities Research Network Website. If you have any… Continue reading
Our Medical Humanities Discussion Group continues today, 5th November, with Megan Coyer’s exciting presentation entitled ‘The Medical Blackwoodians: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press’. The time is today from 1pm to 2-2.30pm, in the Creative Space in the Western Infirmary, in Building G, First Floor (close to the Alexander Elder Chapel and opposite… Continue reading
The October Medical Humanities Discussion Group is kicking off today, with Cheryl McGeachan’s stimulating presentation and workshop entitled “A Tapestry of Tales: Investigating the Historical Geographies of Art Therapy and the ‘Art Extraordinary’ in Scotland (1950-1980)”. The time is Wednesday, October 15 from 1.00pm to 2.00-2.30pm and the place is the Creative Space in the Western… Continue reading
