Category Archives: Announcements

Fully funded PhD studentship in Local Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity: the Stockton on Tees Study

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Fully funded PhD studentship in Local Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity: the Stockton on Tees Study About the Award Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year doctoral studentship as part of a large 5 year research project funded … Continue reading →

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First public conference: Terror and Joy combined

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Reblogged from Belledelettres's Blog: What? Understanding Human Flourishing, Postgraduate Conference Where? Holgate Centre, Grey College, Durham University When? 16/17 May 2013 Who? A wonderful mixture of people from a variety of different disciplines Why? Learning, presenting, networking, eating, exploring How? … Continue reading →

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Wellcome Trust Funding Announcement

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Over the past five years the Wellcome Trust has sought to add to our traditional focus on the history of medicine and biomedical ethics by enabling scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to apply to the Trust for … Continue reading →

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Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Jonathan Shay (Public Lecture, Durham, 18 June 2013)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Jonathan Shay Monday 18 June 2013, 5.30 pm Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham University Slide from the 2002 Documentary Achilles in Vietnam http://www.achillesinvietnam.com/ Dr Jonathan Shay … Continue reading →

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“Science & Society”: History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Postgrad Conference (Oxford, 7 June 2013)

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

The Wellcome Unit for the History Medicine, University of Oxford is pleased to announce the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2013 Science and Society will take place on  7 June 2013 at 10:00-17:00 At the History Faculty Lecture Theatre, George Street, … Continue reading →

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Forget-me-not: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age (London, 7th June 2013)

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

 

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Podcast: Ian Hacking ‘Making up Autism’

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

A podcast of Professor Ian Hacking’s ‘Making Up Autism’ – Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, University of Leeds, 13 May 2013 – is now available here.

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Illness, Narrative and Phenomenology (CfP & Workshop Announcement, University of Bristol, 9 July 2013)

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Illness, Narrative and Phenomenology Tuesday 9 July 2013 Verdon-Smith Room, Institute for Advanced Studies Royal Fort House, University of Bristol BS8 1UJ Keynote speaker: Prof Brian Hurwitz (King’s College London) This one-day workshop will inaugurate the Medical Humanities research cluster … Continue reading →

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Shared practice in non-medicalised mental health care (Conference, Birmingham, 16 October 2013)

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Shared practice in non-medicalised mental health care A conference in celebration of 20 years of PCCS Books 16th October 2013, 10.00 am–4.30pm Clarendon Suites, Birmingham Speakers Richard Bentall Mick Cooper Jacqui Dillon Stephen Joseph Joanna Moncrieff Lisbeth Sommerbeck For service users, carers, … Continue reading →

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