The Durham Centre for Medical Humanities is pioneering in our active fostering of interdisciplinary dialogue with human geography. We are delighted to note the recognition given to human geography as practised in the United Kingdom by the recent International Benchmarking Review of UK Human Geography. Particular strengths of the field Read more…
Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study and Centre for Medical Humanities present: States of Rest An “Experiencing Time” Workshop 7th February 2013 2-5pm Kenworthy Hall, St Mary’s College Time is often studied and conceptualised in ways which emphasise dynamism, flow and movement, the labours of attention, striving and growing. But what Read more…
Asylums possess fascinating geographies, with distinctive urban, local, regional, and environmental connections, with the sites and architecture of the former institutions carefully chosen by a variety of people, for very specific reasons. The blog Asylum Geographies explores these geographies and institutions in detail, from the macro to the micro scale, Read more…
Industriousness and Daydreaming: Cognitive Neuroscience’s Revaluation of Rest Dr Felicity Callard Senior Lecturer in Social Science for Medical Humanities, Durham University Friday 2nd of November, 3:30pm East Quadrangle Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow Wine Reception to follow Abstract: How might human geography respond to the epistemological and ontological challenges posed Read more…
ESRC Seminar on Home Space: Public and private in new welfare settings Tuesday 11 December, 10 – 4.30pm, the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, MK7 6AA The first of this ESRC series of seminars is now open for registration. The series will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of researchers, policy-makers and Read more…
Embodying the Life Course: Relating Past, Present and Future Bodies Workshop Wednesday, November 21st 2012, 10am-5pm Collingwood College, Durham, UK Organisers: Rachel Colls, Kathrin Hörschelmann (Department of Geography, University of Durham) and Bethan Evans (Department of Geography, University of Liverpool) Keynotes by: Professor Robyn Longhurst (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Read more…
Cheryl McGeachan writes: At the RGS-IBG (Royal Geographical Society- Institute of British Geographers) Conference that took place in Edinburgh last month, Dr. Geraldine Perriam (University of Glasgow) and I co-convened a wonderfully diverse set of sessions entitled ‘Securities and Insecurities: Experiences of Mental (Ill)Health”, the papers from which may be Read more…
Wellbeing and Place. A collection of essays edited by Sarah Atkinson, Sara Fuller, and Joe Painter, Durham University, UK. Published by Ashgate. The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals towards a range of outcomes captured through the Read more…
Members of the national research in arts and health network have been successful in securing ESRC funding for a seminar series entitled ‘Researching Arts, Health and Wellbeing’. The programme will commence March 2013 until September 2014 with meetings in Nottingham, Bristol, Glasgow and London. The seminar programme will bring into Read more…
Men in Sheds: the importance of gendered therapeutic spaces for health and wellbeing amongst older men. Professor Christine Milligan, Lancaster University Centre for Medical Humanities Seminar Wednesday 16 May 2012, 5.15pm St. Chad’s College Followed by wine and canopés Social isolation, loneliness and stressful social ties are associated with poor Read more…