Monthly Archives: December 2010

An Encounter with the Institute of Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

Late this October, three of us from the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, packed our summer clothes and headed West and South to visit our colleagues at the well-established Institute of Medical Humanities in Galveston. The Medical Branch of … Continue reading →

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CFP: Affect, Subjectivity & Social Order/Disorder Conference

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

Affect, Subjectivity and Social Order/Disorder – The 4th Conference of the Psychosocial Studies Network To be hosted by the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, June 10th-11th, 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS Attention to the affective dimensions of social … Continue reading →

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One week, two seminars, Part Two: ‘Experiencing and Celebrating Fatness’

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

The second seminar: Experiencing and Celebrating Fatness. Since I was involved in organising this it is hard to get any critical distance. The seminar is part of a larger series on Fat Studies and HAES and this one provided a … Continue reading →

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One week, two seminars, Part One: ‘Retheorising Women’s Health’

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

A few weeks ago I attended two, two-day seminars run as part of ESRC seminar series. Both dealt with issues of embodiment and health in ways that offered interesting connections between the medical humanities and social science. Both seminar series … Continue reading →

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CMH Congratulates Sally Brown

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

Sally Brown, a CMH affiliate and Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Health’s Evaluation Research Development Unit, won the Jury Prize at the Torello Mountain Film Festival in Spain for her film Lines of Flight. She was also … Continue reading →

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Pybus Seminar – Pandemics of hatred, pandemics of disease, from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Prof. Samuel Kline Cohn (University of Glasgow) Pandemics of hatred, pandemics of disease, from the Plague of Athens to AIDS Wednesday 8th December 2010 5.30pm (Refreshments served from 5pm), Bedson Teaching Centre, Room 1.46, Newcastle University The lecture will outline … Continue reading →

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