Undercover: Institutional abuse, covert investigations and history This half-day workshop will bring together cultural historians and media practitioners to explore how ideas of authority and ‘truth’ are embodied in both the person recording the abuse and the means or medium through which it is exposed. Speakers include: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck) on the interviewing of a… Continue reading
MVLS/ARTS inter-disciplinary seminar: ‘The Child’. Date: Friday 8th April 2016 Location: Rooms 408 and 409, Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow All welcome – attendance is free and lunch provided so please email Professor Lury (karen.lury@glasgow.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend. The aim of this seminar/workshop is to bring together colleagues from diverse disciplines – media studies, historians,… Continue reading
Date: 10th May 2016 Location: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE This conference will entertain and educate, exploring mental health through the eyes of the ancient world, and taking a tour through history. It will include highlights by Professor Julian Hughes such as “If only the ancients had DSM 5, all would… Continue reading
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building (L5), Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow Date: Wed 20th April 2016 Attendance: £25 full, £15 concession, free for BSA members Registration is now open for the Disability and Shakespearean Theatre symposium. Please visit our Eventbrite page to register – all welcome! This symposium draws together growing research interest in disability… Continue reading
The Future of Organ Donation in Scotland Date: 6.30pm – 9pm, Friday 1st April Location: Laboratory of Human Anatomy, Thomson Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8LU I would like to warmly extend out an invitation to you for an evening event in the Laboratory of Human Anatomy. This event will present research informed findings and discussion… Continue reading
Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental Ill-health Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield 15th- 16th Sept 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 previously, silent, marginalised and… Continue reading
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
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 Fondazione Lanza (Center for Advanced Studies in Ethics, Padova – Italy), in collaboration with the Chair of the History of Medicine at the University of Padua and the Department of Medical Humanities at the University of Marmara in Istanbul, is pleased to announce: The Third Edition of the Summer Course in Medical Humanities: Italian Perspectives… Continue reading
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
