As part of the British Academy funded project, ‘A Tapestry of Tales: Investigating the Historical Geographies of Art Therapy and ‘Art Extraordinary’ in Scotland’ an event entitled ‘Sharing Reflections: Scottish Outsider Art and Art Extraordinary’ is being hosted at the CCA on Friday 4th December (see programme below) at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)… Continue reading
Tuesday 10th November | 07.00pm for 07.45pm Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ Professor Brian McKinstry FRCGP “Someone To Watch Over Me: Is machine surveillance the future of long-term condition management?” Our population is aging and as a result the numbers of people with multiple long-term conditions is rising. Soon this growth will… 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
Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016 Keynote speakers: Christopher Hamlin and Laura Otis In our current ‘Information Age’ we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global networks. The Victorians diagnosed similar… Continue reading
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
The C.L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts: Thomas Dixon (QMUL) – Tuesday 27th October, 5.30-7pm Maurice Keyworth Lecture Theatre (G.02), Leeds University Business School This lecture will trace the cultural history of medical ideas about tears and weeping in Britain since the early modern period. From the Shakespearean age to the present, medical theories about… Continue reading
What does it mean to ‘regenerate’, and what are the scientific, social, cultural and ethical implications of regeneration in its various forms? From biomedical engineering to stem cell therapy, the growth of regenerative medicine in the modern context has the potential to address challenges raised by stretched supplies of organ donors, chronic diseases and ageing… Continue reading
Using arts and creativity as evidence: Findings from Representing Dennistoun 26th November 2015, 2-4 pm at Glasgow Centre for Population Health Representations of places with poor health such as the east end of Glasgow are often partial, negative and top-down. Participatory creative arts can provide a space to illuminate the everyday contexts through which people strive to maintain… Continue reading
Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Science pre-application workshops The Wellcome Trust will be holding two workshops in Autumn 2015 for researches thinking of applying to the Wellcome’s funding schemes in Humanities and Social Science. The dates of the workshops are: Thursday 19 November, 10.30 – 16.30 (Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 2BE) Friday… Continue reading
Date: 5pm, 23rd February 2016 Location: Murray Room, 65 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow As part of the University of Glasgow’s Classic Research Seminars, Dr Thomas Rütten, Reader at Newcastle, will be presenting on his work on the history of medicine. The talk will be followed by wine reception and dinner. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Dr Sophia… Continue reading
