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Programme: Localism in the Medical Humanities, MHRNS workshop, University of Glasgow

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Localism in the Medical Humanities  Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland (MHRNS) Workshop Event Hosted by the Medical Humanities Research Centre (University of Glasgow) Co-organisers: Dr Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow) and Dr Claire McKechnie-Mason (Glasgow Centre for Population Health) Date: Saturday 19th March 2016 Location: 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow (Room 202) This workshop event… Continue reading →

CFP: Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental ill-health, University of Huddersfield

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CFP: Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental ill-health Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield Thursday 15th – Friday 16th September 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… Continue reading →

CFP: Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives

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Call for Papers: Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives An Interdisciplinary Two-day Conference at the University of Warwick 6th and 7th May 2016 Keynote speakers: Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Author of Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and After 1945… 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 →

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 →

Gifford Lecture and Masterclass: Professor Sheila Jasanoff, ‘Social Orders in Scientific Biomedicine’, Edinburgh

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Regulation in Action: Social Orders in Scientific Biomedicine Insights from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have profoundly altered our understanding of the relation between technoscience and politics. Rather than viewing them as separate spheres, STS scholars have demonstrated that epistemic and social orders are coproduced. Further, by moving attention to the effects… Continue reading →

Workshop: ‘Science Fiction, Medicine, and Utopia’, Glasgow

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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 →

‘Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series’, Edinburgh, Jan – March 2016

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Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series, Semester Two 2015-16 All STIS seminars are held in the Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square). Monday 11th January, 3.30-5.00pm: Dr Tiago Moreira (Durham University), ‘Assembling the “ageing society”‘ Monday 18th January, 3.30-5.00pm: Dr Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester), ‘Roadmaps and Pipelines,… Continue reading →

Research Seminar, Dr Sheila Dickson: ‘The Development of Psychiatry as Medical Specialism in the Enlightenment Period’, Glasgow

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Dr Sheila Dickson, SMLC, University of Glasgow ‘The development of Psychiatry as Medical Specialism in the Enlightenment period: Rotation Therapy for Maniacs, Melancholics and Idiots’ All are warmly invited to the next School of Modern Languages and Cultures Research Seminar on Wednesday 2nd December at 1pm in Room 317 of the Hetherington Building. Refreshments available. Psychiatry… Continue reading →