Touching the Soul: An Exhibition of the Arts: October 7th, 8th & 9th 2011, Sheffield This is an arts exhibition being staged at the Jessop West exhibition space to mark World Mental Health Day. All exhibits are produced by users of mental health services in Sheffield, and will include visual Read more…
Call for contributions to essay collection: Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature 1744-1845. The editors are currently seeking proposals for a collection of essays investigating the subject of madness in British literature between 1744 and 1845. These are landmark dates for the historical, philosophical and medical history of Read more…
The Northern Centre for the History of Medicine (Newcastle) is delighted to announce that registration is now open for the conference: CONTAGIONISM AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN MEDICINE AND LITERATURE BETWEEN 1880 and 1933 25 – 27 August 2011, Newcastle University A Wellcome funded international conference bringing together scholars working on Read more…
Naomi Banks writes: I am due to present a paper at the ‘Poetry and Melancholia‘ conference this July in Stirling. My contribution to this conference is based on a section of my PhD thesis on Northern Irish Elegy. Elegy can be basically defined as the poetry of mourning, or more Read more…
Inventions of the Text Seminar Series 2010-2011: The Uses of Literature Imaginative Worlds: Medical Humanities and ‘the uses of literature’ Corinne Saunders, Michael Mack & Angela Woods: Centre for Medical Humanities Tuesday 25 January, 6.30 pm (please note later start time) Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham. All welcome. The Medical Read more…
The Warburg Institute Literature, Ideas and Society Seminar Series presents The Medicinal Power of Reading 9 February 2011, 5.15 at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London with Vivian Nutton (University College London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine) and Angus Gowland (University College London, History Department) The Read more…
Professor Marcia Childress: Samuel Beckett’s Short Plays as Tutorials in Geriatrics and End of Life Care Wednesday 24 November 5:00pm to 7:00pm Birley Room, Hatfield College Modernist Irish author and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett’s spare, compact, and provocative plays Footfalls (1976) and Rockaby (1981) are virtuoso studies in the loneliness Read more…
The journal Literature and Medicine has just made available online a special issue on ‘Cancer Stories’. The editors, Jane E Schultz and Martha Stoddard Holmes, introduce the issue as follows: “In the twentieth century, cancer exceeded its discursive boundaries as a biological entity and became the focus of intense cultural Read more…