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Visiting Speaker: Prof. Ann M. Fox, ‘Unexpected Anatomies: Extraordinary Bodies in Contemporary Art’, Liverpool Hope

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Unexpected Anatomies: Extraordinary Bodies in Contemporary Art Professor Ann M. Fox Date: Wednesday 2nd March, 2016 Time: 2.15pm–3.45pm Place: Eden109, Liverpool Hope University, UK  As a curator who has now co-curated three disability arts-related exhibitions, Professor Fox continually asks: what do works about bodily difference give voice to the lived experience of disability?  How do… Continue reading →

Visiting Speaker, Dr Cordelia Warr: ‘Noses and Skin Flaps: Gaspare Tagliacozzo’s De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem (1597)’, Glasgow

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All are welcome to attend the next Renaissance Art History seminar with Dr Cordelia Warr on Wednesday, 24th February, on ‘Noses and Skin Flaps: Gaspare Tagliacozzo’s De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem (1597)’ to take place at 17:15 in 7 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Hepburn Room (first floor). Dr Cordelia Warr (History of Art, University of Manchester) is… Continue reading →

Seminars on Mental Health, Glasgow: Dr Louise Hide and Prof. John Foot, Wed 10th Feb

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By happy coincidence, the seminar papers in the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Series and Strathclyde School of Humanities Research Seminar Series on Wednesday 10th February both examine dimensions of post-war psychiatry. Details as follows: 1pm in room W308, Hamish Wood Building, Glasgow Caledonian University Dr Louise Hide (Birkbeck, University of… Continue reading →

Mason Institute Lunch Seminars, Spring 2016

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The Mason Institute is pleased to announce our lunchtime seminars for Spring 2016. On 16th February we will welcome Dr Amrit Ray (Chief Medical Officer, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson). We are pleased to co-host this seminar with the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Dr Ray will speak on ‘Ethical Challenges in Compassionate… Continue reading →

Seminar Series CFP: Disability and the Emotions, CCDS, Liverpool Hope

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Disability and the Emotions Seminar series hosted by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University. No crying in disability studies, that was the rule set by Joseph Shapiro’s No Pity in 1993, only to be broken a few years later by Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Catherine Prendergast at the 2000 MLA conference. In the… Continue reading →

Frisby Lecture 2016 with Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Berkeley), University of Glasgow

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This year’s Frisby Lecture at the University of Glasgow will be given by Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley). The lecture will take place on Wednesday 2nd March, in the Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre (16.00-18.00). There will be a drinks reception following the lecture, which is free to attend and open to all.… Continue reading →

Programme, University of Strathclyde School of Humanities Seminar Series

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Please find detailed below the programme for the University of Strathclyde School of Humanities seminar series for this term, organised by Caroline Verdier, Petya Eckler, Emma Newlands and myself. The seminars take place on Wednesdays at 4pm in room LH227a/b in the Lord Hope Building, with the exceptions of 23rdand 30th of March when they take… Continue reading →

Spring 2016 Seminar Series Programme, CSHHH, Glasgow

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Wednesday 10th February Dr Louise Hide, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Mixing the sexes. New therapeutic spaces in English psychiatric hospitals from the 1950s to 1990s’.   Thursday 25th February Dr Martin Gorsky, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: ‘The idea of a “health system” in research and policy, 1891-1976’. This seminar is being organised… Continue reading →

Glasgow History of Medicine Seminars, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

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The Institute of Health and Wellbeing and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow invite you to a series of seminars on medical history, medical humanities and related topics. Tuesday 19th January 2016 Dr Hazel Morrison (Durham University), ‘The trans-Atlantic movement of dynamic psychiatry to Gartnavel Mental Hospital, 1908-1921: a conversational perspective’ Tuesday 16th… Continue reading →

Launch of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology

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You are warmly invited to join ECMA on Friday 15th January for a seminar from Dr Alex Nading followed by a wine reception to celebrate the launch of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology. Dr Nading will present his paper, “Constitutive Outsides” and Incorporeal Signals: Performing Nicaraguan Food Safety. Time: 3-5pm, Friday 15th January 2016 Location:… Continue reading →