Announcement from the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge To me CRASSH has been a unique platform and probably a once-in-a-life opportunity to explore transdisciplinary research. – Dr Ronita Bardhan, Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow (2018-19) Applications for the 2024 – 2025 Fellowship are now open. […]
Category: Announcement
Cristina Mejia Visperas, Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory
Announcement from the Levan Institute for the Humanities Upcoming Levan Book Chat Thursday, December 7 | 12:00 PM | Virtual Cristina Mejia Visperas is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California. She will be joined in conversation by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (NYU) and Anthony Hatch (Wesleyan University), moderated by Nayan Shah […]
Women’s Global Health in Film
Announcement by Professor Hassan Shehata Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Thursday 30th November 2023 10-18 Union Street, London, SE1 1SZ Led by the RCOG Senior and Global Health Vice President,Professor Hassan Shehata, in collaboration with MedFest, this unique event will showcase a series of critically acclaimed and thought-provoking short films that shed light on […]
Conference Announcement: Medicine and The Arts Symposium, Barcelona, 19th-21st October 2023
Announcement by Jonathan McFarland, President of The Doctor as a Humanist Medicine and healthcare seem to be at a crossroads; some may say, reinterpreting Shakespeare that there is something rotten in the state medical education, and thus in healthcare, in general. And certainly, since the pandemic, whose vestiges are still being seen around the world, […]
‘Film Legends Among Us’: New Series in Medical Humanities Online Blogs
Brandy Schillace, Editor-in-chief, Medical Humanities Journal Lambert Wilson, French actor and musician, and master of ceremonies at his opening speech for the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 said: ‘The world is written in an incomprehensible language, but cinema translates it for us universally. Without its guiding light, each person would remain in isolated darkness’’. Medical […]
Opening Celebration of the Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research
Announcement from The Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research 25 March 2022 3:15–4:45 pm (CEST) online OPENING CELEBRATION https://www.eventbrite.de/e/eroffnungsfeieropening-celebration-tickets-273777274197 The Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research combines approaches of artistic research with those of Medical and Health Humanities. It aims to develop and advance innovative perspectives on ways of […]
Doctoral Research Fellowship: “Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation”
Announcement from the University of Oslo A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in cultural history and cultural translation is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. Cultural translations in early modern descriptions of the «New World» The person appointed will form a part of the research project “Bodies in […]
No Words: A Virtual Choir of Healthcare Workers Memorializes 500,000 Americans Lost to the Pandemic
Announcement by The Nocturnists The U.S. has reached half a million deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic. To mark this moment, The Nocturnists medical storytelling community has created No Words, a video memorial honoring those lost to the pandemic and the healthcare workers who cared for them. No Words Memorial Video: https://bit.ly/TheNocturnists_NoWords No Words Webpage: https://thenocturnists.com/no-words […]
Announcements: Conversations in Time of Crisis (Association for Medical Humanities)
We find ourselves in crisis. In times of crisis, action is at once indispensable and impossible, demanding a whole focus of attention while being dependent on events resolving themselves, requiring front-line workers to intervene while knowing themselves to have severely limited influence and agency. The front line is essentially a conversation with often unknown and […]
Practical Medical Humanities: Perspectives from Singapore
by Ann Hui Ching Third Spacing is the yet to be defined space between cells and vessels, where fluid moves from one space to another. Third Spacing is a podcast by and for healthcare students where we explore important issues on the peripheries of clinical medicine in Singapore. Our next podcast series aims to grow […]