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
Join Kelechi Anucha, Veronica Heney, and Arya Thampuran for a discussion of Han Kang’s widely acclaimed 2007 novel The Vegetarian.
08 November 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join one of the seasonal Confabulations events which will explore entanglements of art, psychiatry, and therapy, in their histories, practices and institutions.
16 November 2022
Come along for an evening of live performance, music, and research as you’ve never seen it before. For one night only, researchers will be joined by local musicians and persons with lived experience of illness to share their insights on the cabaret stage.
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Old Cinema Launderette, 38 Marshall Terrace, Durham DH1 2HX
You are warmly invited to attend the Postgraduate Durham University Open Day events to experience Durham campus first-hand and find out more about the new taught MA in Medical Humanities!
23 November 2022
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Durham University Campus
You are warmly invited to attend the virtual Postgraduate Durham University Open Day and find out more about the new taught MA in Medical Humanities!
29 November 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
An event for World AIDS Day 2022 exploring art created during the AIDS crisis and works by artists who continue to be impacted by HIV.
01 December 2022
10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Join us for another seasonal Confabulations event which will explore entanglements of art, psychiatry, and therapy, in their histories, practices and institutions.
07 December 2022
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
We warmly invite you to celebrate the launch of Voices in Psychosis edited by Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day and Charles Fernyhough at the Oriental Museum in Durham on Friday 9 December, 5.30–7pm.
09 December 2022
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Oriental Museum in Durham
Join us for the online launch of the RHHR network, the first international network of its kind!
15 December 2022
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online - Zoom Webinar
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