AHRC funded PhD studentship at the University of Glasgow in collaboration with BBC Scotland: “Children with Learning Disabilities as Digital Audiences” Applications are invited for a full PhD studentship in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow to work in collaboration with the Children’s Department at BBC Scotland. The aim of the project… Continue reading
Date: Friday 15th April 2016 from 09:30 to 15:30 (BST) Location: Gannochy Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ (View Map) Registration: Visit the Eventbrite page here. The Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project at the University of Glasgow has opened registration for the third and final workshop of 2016. Previous workshops discussed the… Continue reading
You are warmly invited to the next WWI lunchtime talk at the University of Glasgow on Friday, 18 March 2016 at 13.15 in the University Chapel. Dr Jen Novotny, University of Glasgow: ‘To “take their place among the productive members of society”: Treating WWI wounded at Erskine in 1916.” One hundred years ago in March… 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
Location: Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Date: Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th September 2016 Deadline for proposals: Friday 3rd June 2016 Keynote speakers: Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University NY Andrew Kötting, artist and filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts This Wellcome-funded interdisciplinary conference aims to support and foster collaborative… 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
1-2pm, Wednesday 9th March 2016 Dr. Anna Mcfarlane (School of Critical Studies), ‘Inequality in Medical Science Fiction’ In both literary theory and science fiction studies posthumanism has emerged as an important discourse over the last decade or so. Posthumanism offers tantalising philosophical propositions and seems to open up new possibilities for individual and social organisation… 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
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
Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network Website Address: http://www.medical-humanities.glasgow.ac.uk Friday 22nd January saw the launch of the new Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network Website. With the site now live and fully functioning, we would like to cordially invite you to use it as a resource to engage with the range of medical humanities research taking place… Continue reading
