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Postcard from Christchurch
This picture tells a surprising story. I took it a few days ago in Christchurch, NZ, just metres from North Beach, New Brighton, an ocean-side suburb not far from the epicentre of the second of the two earthquakes that hit … Continue reading
A postcard from Hong Kong
In my recent posting on this blog I briefly described an excellent conference at Hong Kong University (HKU) on the theme of ‘Music and the Body.’ The three days that it occupied so intensively left little room for anything much … Continue reading
Music and the body: Review of a Conference at Hong Kong University’s Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Department of Music, 9-11 March 2012
As if visiting an extraordinary city like Hong Kong for the first time were not pleasure enough, it was a treat to have an unusually gratifying excuse to do so in the form of participating in this timely, unusual and … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged bodies, conference, flourishing, imagination and creativity, music, philosophy
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Luminous Words: Wonder (from Thinking about Health)
Wonder, wondering and states of wonder abide among life’s joys. Like humour, health, music or poetry, wonder requires no justification; but unlike them – unlike even health – we do not ourselves make wonder: rather we stumble upon it. Wonder … Continue reading
Medical Humanities International Research Colloquium
Medical Humanities International Research Colloquium St Chad’s College, Durham 16-19 September 2011 Medical humanities’ development as a field of enquiry has – quite rightly – been fairly organic and spontaneous, reflecting what its scholars have found interesting and important. Such … Continue reading
Posted in Research Collaborations, Review
Tagged international collaborations, medical humanities
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Nine go med [-ical humanities] in Cromarty
They did it again… By which I mean that the many-nationed group of medical humanities free-spirits who have embraced the job of producing the Medical Humanities Companion series met up again this week (5th to 8th July 2011), and in … Continue reading
Martyn Evans’ New Zealand Travelogue – Part 6, The Grand Finale
Saturday, April 16: This is my last, and perhaps briefest, entry for this trip – and, given the circumstances of its being drafted (on the long haul home) it will be rather late appearing on the CMH website. The place … Continue reading
Martyn Evans’ New Zealand Travelogue – Part 5
Tuesday 12 April: It was bound to happen – the blog just got shouldered aside as simply being here in Otago got busier and fuller. All good, though – the very reason for coming. In essence I had to come … Continue reading
Martyn Evans’ New Zealand Travelogue – Part 4
Martyn Evans writes: Sunday 3 April: An intriguing approach to a postgraduate seminar last Friday: a group of staff and students performed a set of scripted dialogues written by Grant Gillett (see Part Two) based on a book chapter on … Continue reading
Martyn Evans’ New Zealand Travelogue – Part 3
Thursday 31st March. Everyone is familiar with the grandiose in New Zealand’s landscapes – they deservedly enjoy the biggest starring role in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. But just as striking are New Zealand’s miniatures, particularly the soft … Continue reading
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