Emotional Experience in Depression: A Philosophical Study is a three-year AHRC-DFG funded project lead by Matthew Ratcliffe and Achim Stephan. Its aim, quite simply, is “to provide the first ever detailed, systematic philosophical study of the nature and role of altered mood, emotion and feeling in depression.” The Phenomenology of Read more…
Transformative Difference: Disability, Culture and the Academy Wed 7 – Thurs 8 September 2011 Liverpool Hope University, UK Keynote speakers: Prof. Len Barton (University of London), Prof. Fiona Kumari Campbell (Griffith University, Brisbane), Prof. Dan Goodley (Manchester Metropolitan University), Prof. Stuart Murray (Leeds University) It is now widely recognised that a critical engagement with Read more…
Religious Melancholy. An Interdisciplinary Conference 19-20 May 2011 King’s College London “Sickness and sorrows come and go, but a superstitious soul hath no rest” – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy To date there has been no opportunity for scholars to contribute to an interdisciplinary dialogue on this important area Read more…
The early-bird registration deadline for the International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) being held in Durham, 10-15th July 2011, is the 11th February 2011. The early-bird registration fee is £250 (£175 students). After this date the registration fee is £275 (£200 students). The registration fee includes admission to all of the sessions, Sunday evening wine reception Read more…
‘The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics’ International Interdisciplinary Conference Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease February 17 and 18 Hatfield College, Durham University, UK This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings Read more…
The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, Melbourne 2010 2nd Annual International Arts and Health Conference 16 – 19 November 2010 Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne, Victoria The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, presented best practice and innovative arts and health practice and programs, examples of effective Read more…
The Drama of Medicine:All the Ward’s a Stage 11 -13 July 2011 University of Leicester A conference to explore the dramas/stories, the players/people, and the stage/setting, of healthcare past and present. With keynote speakers, delegate’s papers, and workshops. Special appearances by: Dannie Abse–reading and discussing some of his poetry, Jed Read more…
18th-19th November 2010 The Hopkins Room, Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, Stratford, London E15 1EL Organised by: Charlotte Cooper, Bethan Evans and Shirlene Badger Registration is now closed but further details of the seminar series (and presentations from previous seminars can be found at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchprojects/fat_studies_and_health_at_every_size/). Confirmed speakers and titles include: Read more…
Jane Macnaughton, co-director of the Centre for Medical Humanities writes: Martyn Evans and I have long had the ambition to link up with the premier centre for medical humanities in the US, the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in Texas, so here Read more…
Over the summer I attended Concepts of Health and Illness, a multidisciplinary conference organised by philosophers Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper as the final event in their AHRC-funded network The Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease. Like most events organised as part of the network, it was a fascinating and Read more…