Events from the 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2022 Reset
This event is the fourth installment of Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities, a new series of urgent conversations on health, medicine, and medicalised bodies. Image credit: Image © Harold Offeh, from the series “Lounging” (2017-2020).
09 February 2022
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online via Zoom
Medical Humanities Research Seminar hosted by Durham University’s English Studies Department and the Institute for Medical Humanities. An informal interview session with Dr Travis Chi Wing Lau discussing various aspects of his work on C18th/C19th anti-vaccination movements, theorising chronic pain, and crip pedagogies.
17 March 2022
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A talk by Ben Doyle, publisher in Literary Studies from Bloomsbury Academic, on getting your work published, aimed at research students and early career researchers.
12 April 2022
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Zoom and in person
Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study and Institute for Medical Humanities will explore the issues being faced by children and young adults who have experienced disruption to their lives as a result of COVID.
26 April 2022
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The event will be held in person at the IAS in Cosin’s Hall, and simultaneously online.
A talk by Dr Lesel Dawson, Associate Professor in Literature and Culture at the University of Bristol, who specialises in grief, Renaissance literature and the history of the emotions
12 May 2022
Join Amanda Herbert for a seminar co-organised by IMH and History of Science, Technology and Medicine group for a talk on the lives and experiences of women and men who worked inside medical spa complexes in Britain and the Americas between 1500-1800.
24 May 2022
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Seminar Room 1 (HS110), 43 North Bailey
Biomedical imaging & artists’ practices: Ilona Sagar and Flis Holland in conversation with Samantha Lippett, and with a response from Jane Macnaughton
20 July 2022
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Online
Fiona Johnstone’s Confabulations series continues over the summer, with online events in July and August.
10 August 2022
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The winter 2022-23 program for Confabulations launches with an artist-led event exploring virality and care(lessness).
19 October 2022
The Institute for Medical Humanities PG/ECR network is having a welcome 'meet and greet event' on Thursday October 20th at 5:00pm. Join us at Whitechurch to meet some other postgrads and early career researchers, have a cosy drink, and maybe find out a little bit about medical humanities!
20 October 2022
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Whitechurch Free House. 29 Church Street Head, Durham DH1 3DN
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