Date: next meeting 5-7pm, 4 February 2019 Location: King’s College London, Bush House (SE) 6.03 Disability+Intersectionality is a fortnightly reading group based at King’s College London which meets to discuss key texts in critical disability studies, situating them within the broader context of the humanities and social sciences. Each session will focus on a theme and explore… Continue reading
Date: 19-21 September 2019 Location: Sheraton Downtown Dallas, Texas Closing Date for Abstracts: on or before February 15, 2019 Call for Papers: 36th Annual Nursing & Health Care History Conference, Sheraton Downtown Dallas, Texas September 19-21, 2019 The American Association for the History of Nursing and host Texas Woman’s University are co-sponsoring the Association’s 36th annual conference to be held in… Continue reading
Book: Disclosures: Rewriting the Narrative about HIV, edited by Angie Spoto (Scotland: Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018). (96 pp). £10.99. ISBN: 987-1-910416-10-5 Reviewer: Beverley Pollitt, Liverpool Hope University Stigma. A highly prevalent concept many of us are familiar with and one which is indisputably associated with HIV. Disclosures: Rewriting the Narrative about HIV is constructed as… Continue reading
Application Deadline: Friday 15 March 2019 An ESRC SGSSS Collaborative PhD scholarship is available in HGRG at University of Glasgow with Hester Parr and Chris Philo and Emma Laurie – based on partnership with Remake Up (http://remakeup.org/) a social enterprise in Glasgow that uses profits to fund free permanent make-up (paramedical tattooing) for those with disfigurement or critical illness experiences. This research… Continue reading
This is a save-the-date announcement for a day event on Wednesday 15 May 2019. The Glasgow Medical Humanities Symposium will bring together researchers from across Glasgow’s Universities to explore new possibilities for collaboration, and to identify the distinctive strengths and interests of our local context. The symposium will be open to academics, postdocs, and research… Continue reading
The new Wellcome Trust-supported Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society brings together a range of scholars from across the University of Edinburgh working in the social sciences and medical humanities. They are currently advertising three postdoctoral positions: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPJ282/research-fellow-in-biomedicine-self-and-society-beyond-disease – line-managed by Martyn Pickersgill , with Steve Sturdy (24 months) [despite the formal wording of the job ad,… Continue reading
Deadline for articles: 1 May 2019 C21 Special Issue: ‘Surveilling the Body: Ableism and Anglophone Literature’ Guest Edited by: Dr Susan Flynn and Dr Antonia Mackay Call for Papers: Surveillance Studies has made a substantial contribution to interrogations of human rights offences by helping to document instances of discrimination in recent times. Indeed, examinations of… Continue reading
The Medical Humanities Discussion Group exists to provide a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and convivial discussion around work in-progress, bringing together students, staff, and practitioners. The Discussion Group is convened by Dr Hannah-Louise Clark, Lecturer in Global Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. We are delighted to announce the following upcoming events,… Continue reading
Date: Thursday 14 February 2019 Time: afternoon workshop, 13:30 – 16:45 Location: Training Suite at Human Development Scotland’s Glasgow city centre offices, 4th floor, Victoria Chambers, 142 West Nile Street, Glasgow G1 2RQ. An Introduction to Therapeutic Photography, afternoon workshop, Thursday 14 February, 13:30 – 16:45 Join Human Development Scotland for an introductory and interactive afternoon session on Therapeutic… Continue reading
Date: Saturday 26 January 2019 Time: half-day workshop, 11:00-15:00 Location: Human Development Scotland’s city centre offices, Victoria Chambers, 142 West Nile Street, Glasgow G1 2RQ Promoting a Culture of Belonging in Further and Higher Education, half day workshop, Saturday 26 January, 11:00 – 15:00 Human Development Scotland are holding a session exploring the concept and contemporary relevance of a… Continue reading
