Arthur W. Frank will give the CL Oakley Memorial Lecture in Medicine and the Arts in Leeds on Tuesday 20 May (17.00-18.30) ‘Being a Good Story: Living with Serious Illness’ Dental Lecture Theatre, Worsley Building, University of Leeds (building 95 on the interactive campus map). We are delighted that Professor Read more…
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego) ‘The Rage of Caliban: Missing Bodies in Modernist Aesthetics’ Thursday 7 November, 5-6pm Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities Basement, School of English, Cavendish Road, University of Leeds. Abstract: Classical aesthetics depends on an ideal of autonomy that removes the body from judgments of Read more…
Painful Bodies: Visual and Literary Representations of Suffering Tuesday 16 April, 4pm-6pm Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities (enter via the School of English foyer) A double bill of research presentations co-hosted by the School of English Critical and Cultural Theory Research Group, the Postcolonial Research Group, and the Leeds Centre Read more…
The Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities is delighted to announce the following programme of events, to which all are welcome: Monday November 5th, 5.00-6.00: Claire Jones (Director, Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Leeds) – ‘From Mancles to Microscopes: Exploring and Accessing the Material Culture Read more…
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