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New Book Available for Review: “What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine” by Danielle Ofri
“Danielle Ofri’s newest book, What Doctors Feel, is a look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that impact patient care.Contemporary media portrayals of doctors focus on the decision-making and medical techniques, reinforcing … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, book review, Danielle Ofri, doctors, invitation, medical writing, medicine
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Affect & Inquiry (CFP, Conference, Iowa, 27-29 March 2014)
The University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies seeks 15-20 minute papers, talks, and performances for its 2014 Humanities Symposium, Affect & Inquiry. The Symposium will take place March 27-29th, 2014 at the University of Iowa and will feature keynotes, talks, … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, CFP, conference, emotion, feelings, interdisciplinary, medical humanities, sensory
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Bio-Social Methods for a Vitalist Social Science (CFP, Workshop, Birmingham, 16 July 2013)
Workshop: Bio-Social Methods for a Vitalist Social Science University of Birmingham, Tuesday 16th July 2013 You are invited to attend a free workshop hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, biosociality, cognitive neuroscience, governance, social sciences, vitalism
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“Feeling Space: Towards a History of Emotion, Affect, & Space” (CFP, Conference, Copenhagen, 6–7 December 2013)
Feeling Space: Towards a History of Emotion, Affect, and Space Call for Papers Workshop at the University of Copenhagen, December 6th and 7th 2013 Keynote speakers: Professor Monique Scheer, University of Tübingen and Professor Tim Cresswell from Royal Holloway University of London The spatial dimension of emotions … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, CFP, emotions, history of emotions, Human geography, medical humanities, space
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Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference (CfP, Conference, Berkeley, October 4-5 2013)
Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference October 4-5, 2013, Berkeley, CA Co-sponsors: UC Berkeley English Department, UC Berkeley Architecture Department, Townsend Center for the Humanities Co-organizers: Padma Maitland (UCB Architecture, SSEAS); Christopher P. Miller (UCB English); Marta Figlerowicz (Harvard Society of … Continue reading
And then it hit me in the stomach – on the affective and emotional qualities of neuroscience
Des Fitzgerald writes: “I thought I knew a lot about autism, because I’d read a lot about autism, I’d heard a lot about autism – actually I was utterly unprepared for it […] here was thing I was really passionate … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, autism, bodies, critical neuroscience, intensities, neuroscience, qualiative research, subjectivity
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Actions and Passions – What can Philosophy Tell us About Emotions? (Seminars, Newcastle Philosophical Society, June – July 2013)
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Tagged affect, emotions, Newcastle Philosophical Society, passions, philosophy, seminar
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“Quest of the Heart”: International Conference on Affective Knowledge with Philosophers, Artists & Social Scientists (Conference, London, 2–3 June 2013)
An interdisciplinary conference on affective knowledge called “Quest of the Heart” will be held at Birkbeck College London on the 2nd-3rd June 2013. As speakers, we have scholars on history of philosophy, social scientists and artists discussing emotions, imagination, spirituality and … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, History of philosophy, interdisciplinary, medical humanities, philosophy, wellbeing
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Literature & Human Rights: A Critical examination (Symposium, Newcastle, 25 May 2013)
A one-day symposium hosted by the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA), the Gender Research Group, the Newcastle Forum for Human Rights and Social Justice, and the Postcolonial Research Group 25 May 2013 Percy Building, Newcastle University Organisers: Anne … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, body, colonialism, empathy, human rights, medical discourses, medical humanities, narrative
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Uncanny Landscapes (CFP, Conference, Exhibition, Workshop; London, 4-8 March 2013)
Uncanny Landscapes 4th-8th March 2013 Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9NG Uncanny landscapes is an exhibition, workshop and conference which brings together artists and academics whose work addresses ambiguity between subject, object and landscape relations. The uncanny … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, atmosphere, CFP, conference, geography, landscape, psychoanalysis, uncanny
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