We are thrilled to invite applications for a three-year, fixed-term lectureship post in Medical Humanities, working across the Department of English Studies and Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate research excellence in any period of literary studies, cultural theory or cultural studies, Read more…
Prof Mikhail Epstein, Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory, and Director of The Centre for Humanities Innovation (CHI) at Durham University has published today an article in The Conversation: “The Solution to the Humanities Crisis Must Come from Within“. Prof Epstein, in collaboration with his colleagues in The Centre for Humanities Read more…
The second event of the Radical Media Forum – Re-Configuring the Immune System: Bodies, Words and Worlds will take place on Thursday 14th of November, 17:00-21:00, at Goldsmiths, University of London, RHB Cinema. This event attempts to open up new pathways of critical engagement at the intersections of sciences, technology Read more…
The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes will hold its twelfth annual conference entitled ‘The Emotions’ at the University of Sheffield in March 2014. Proposals are invited for papers treating aspects of the conference theme in relation to nineteenth-century French and Francophone culture, history and art history. Suggested topics include, but Read more…
Pathologies of the postmodern Professor Patricia Waugh and Dr Angela Woods, Durham University, will investigate the pathologies, mental and physical, epidemic and imagined, that have particular resonance in postmodern culture. What do they tell us about ourselves, our fears and anxieties? This event is part of Café Culture’s season of Read more…
Thinking Feeling: Critical Theory, Culture, Feeling 18th -19th May 2012 University of Sussex £65 (waged)/£35 (unwaged) Keynote speakers: Timothy Bewes (Brown), “The Surge: Turning Away From Affect”; Eva Illouz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), “Why Emotions are Crucial to Capitalism”; Ben Highmore (Sussex), “Mood Work”; Alex Düttmann (Goldsmiths), “The Feeling of Life.” Read more…
The Centre for Medical Humanities 2011/12 seminar series began on Wednesday with Angela Woods’ talk On Psychiatric Metaphor: Exploring the Use of Clinical Concepts in Cultural Theory. We were delighted to be joined by colleagues from so many departments, including Philosophy, English, the School of Modern Languages, Geography, Psychology, the Read more…
On Psychiatric Metaphor: Exploring the Use of Clinical Concepts in Cultural Theory Dr Angela Woods, Centre for Medical Humanities Wednesday 26 October, 5 pm St Chad’s Chapel and SCR Followed by wine and canapés Anti-Oedipus (1979): French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Italian psychoanalyst Félix Guattari argue that schizophrenia is a Read more…