This conference aims to bring together postgraduate and early career researchers to explore the experiences, voices, and representations of those who make up the wide and varied psychiatric landscape, but who find themselves outside or excluded from formal psychiatric spaces. We’re delighted to now share the programme and to announce Read more…
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH HEALTH HUMANITIES SEMINAR AND MASTERCLASS SERIES EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER MASTERCLASS: STAGING THE STIGMA Chris Lee and Catherine Hartley Wednesday 26 March 2014, University of Edinburgh 2:00-3:30pm Room G.11 Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place Chris Lee and Catherine Hartley are service managers of community mental Read more…
Spirituality, Religion and the Medical Humanities Durham Centre for Medical Humanities / Wolfson PostGraduate & Early Career Research Network Meeting Thursday 13 March 2014, 2 pm – 3:30 pm Collier Room, Hild and Bede College, Durham University Note: We are still looking for 1 or 2 people to give a Read more…
The Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications to the M.A. program in the Social Foundations of Health. The Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health, and Society is a cutting-edge research and teaching center that boasts a growing cohort of interdisciplinary scholars, an expanding, innovative Read more…
Alternative Psychiatric Narratives Friday 16 and Saturday 17 May 2014 Birkbeck College, University of London Chair: Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck In recent years, historians of psychiatry have heeded Roy Porter’s call to produce psychiatric histories from the patient’s point of view. Studies have moved on from focusing on medical discourse Read more…
‘Multiple Methods and Unusual Experiences’ Centre for Medical Humanities Post-Graduate and Early Career Network Thursday, 5th December, 2-3:30 pm, CA113 Caedmon Building (on the Hild and Bede College/ School of Education campus, Durham University) Tea and cakes provided What does it mean to be part of a medical humanities community in Read more…
Social history of health and healthcare in Greece University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology, Rethymno, Greece March 29, 2014 | Submissions deadline: 30 November 2013 The history of health and healthcare, a well-established branch of historical studies and medical humanities in many countries, has been recently expanding to Read more…
Call for papers: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter will be holding an interdisciplinary medical humanities conference for postgraduate researchers on the 24th and 25th July 2014. This conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in a manner that reflects the broad scope of exciting Read more…
Durham Centre for Medical Humanities Postgraduate Network – Welcome Lunch, 24 October, 2013 Are you a postgrad or postdoc working in the field of health, illness, medicine or wellbeing? Would you like to join a cross-disciplinary group of early career scholars working in related areas? The Durham Centre for Medical Humanities invites all Read more…
Durham’s Geographies of Health and Well-being (GoHWell) Reading Group is an interdisciplinary research group of staff and students based in the Centre for Medical Humanities, the Wolfson Research Institute, the Institute for Hazard Risk and Resilience (IHRR), and the Department of Geography. More information about the group is available here. Read more…