Mike White, Senior Research Fellow in Arts and Health in the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University, writes: Two years on, we have convened our second Critical Mass meeting to explore the development of international collaborations in community-based arts in health. The first one was held in Durham in […]
Critical Mass was the name given to an international gathering of arts in health practitioners hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities in June 2011. The event is reviewed here and here, and you can see images from the first day of the programme here. In this post, Mike White […]
It’s day one of the Arts in Health Critical Mass meeting in Durham. Ideas are fizzing, energy is circulating, and there is a growing sense that clear plans for action are brewing. Here are just a few of the thoughts guiding our discussions:
Mike White writes: In June, the Centre for Medical Humanities is convening a ‘critical mass’ meeting in Durham of its international partners in community-based arts in health. Leading practitioners and researchers in this field are coming from United States, Australia, South Africa and Ireland to reflect on shared issues in applying arts practice to […]
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, edited by Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods. Associate editors: Sarah Atkinson, Jane Macnaughton and Jennifer Richards (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities is an epic, much-awaited collection of essays that brings together an impressive list of […]
An outstanding opportunity to review ‘When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health’ by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna (Princeton University Press, 2013) has arisen. As always, we welcome expressions of interest from all angles of the medical humanities but this book might be particularly well suited to reviewers […]
The first international Critical Medical Humanities Symposium was held on November 4 and 5 at Durham University. In the second of two reviews, Avishek Parui, recent PhD graduate in English Studies, writes: The Critical Medical Humanities Symposium at Durham University on 4-5 November 2013 brought together a wide range of […]
Mike White writes: Utrecht, a city so flat it could be ‘sta-prest’, proved the appropriate setting for a bi-national conference attempting to iron out the wrinkles and nuances of meaning in research methodologies for participation and engagement in the arts. This event on 20-21 June was instigated by Leeds Met […]
‘The Flame Alphabet: A Novel’ by Ben Marcus (Granta Books, 2013) Reviewed by Dr Nagihan Haliloğlu, assistant professor at Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul. Her book on Jean Rhys, ‘Narrating from the Margins’ is published from Rodopi. She writes on multiculturalism, memory and world literature. Language as Airborne Toxic Event The […]
Entering the foyer of the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester last week was an immersion into a world of multiple realities, cheek to cheek: expressed in the contrasting colours and cuts of clothing, and the colliding cross rhythms of numerous languages. This was the enormous and inspirational International Union of Anthropological and […]