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Critical Medical Humanities Symposium – Review by Avishek Parui
The first international Critical Medical Humanities Symposium was held on November 4 and 5 at Durham University. In the second of two reviews, Avishek Parui, recent PhD graduate in English Studies, writes: The Critical Medical Humanities Symposium at Durham University … Continue reading
Critical Medical Humanities Symposium – Review by Abi Mcniven
The first international Critical Medical Humanities Symposium was held on November 4 and 5 at Durham University. In the first of two reviews, Abigail Mcniven, PhD candidate in Geography, writes: Introducing the ‘Critical Medical Humanities Symposium’, Angela Woods presented attendees … Continue reading
Critical Medical Humanities Symposium – Final Programme and Invitation to follow #CritMH debate on twitter
We are delighted to be hosting the first international Critical Medical Humanities Symposium on November 4 and 5 at Durham University. Registration for the symposium has closed, but we would love for as many people as possible to participate in … Continue reading
“Vermin” (CFP, Issue 9 of Nyx, a print & online publication of critical theory, radical politics & art)
Nyx, a Noctournal is a print and online publication of critical theory, radical politics and art. It is peer reviewed by a collective of young researchers, activists and theorists and is based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Issue 9: Vermin … Continue reading
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Tagged art, CFP, critical theory, medical humanities, radical politics, vermin
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Visual and Literary Representations of Suffering (Research Double Bill, Leeds, Tuesday 16 April)
Painful Bodies: Visual and Literary Representations of Suffering Tuesday 16 April, 4pm-6pm Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities (enter via the School of English foyer) A double bill of research presentations co-hosted by the School of English Critical and Cultural Theory … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, bodies, critical theory, LCMH, literature, medical humanities, pain, postcolonial, suffering
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Pathologies of the Postmodern: Pat Waugh and Angela Woods Café Philosophique Event (Newcastle, 7pm, 18 March 2013)
Pathologies of the postmodern Professor Patricia Waugh and Dr Angela Woods, Durham University, will investigate the pathologies, mental and physical, epidemic and imagined, that have particular resonance in postmodern culture. What do they tell us about ourselves, our fears and … Continue reading
Posted in Seminar
Tagged critical theory, cultural theory, literature, medical humanities, pathology, postmodern
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Thinking Feeling: Critical Theory, Culture, Feeling (Registrations Open, Conference, Sussex, May 18-19 2012)
Thinking Feeling: Critical Theory, Culture, Feeling 18th -19th May 2012 University of Sussex £65 (waged)/£35 (unwaged) Keynote speakers: Timothy Bewes (Brown), “The Surge: Turning Away From Affect”; Eva Illouz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), “Why Emotions are Crucial to Capitalism”; Ben Highmore … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged capitalism, critical theory, cultural theory, emotion, literary theory, medical humanities, mind body affect
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CFP – Thinking Feeling: Critical Theory, Culture, Feeling – University of Sussex May 2012
Thinking Feeling: Critical Theory, Culture, Feeling 18-19 May 2012, University of Sussex ‘Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic’ (Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia) As the recent UK riots indicate, there is no escaping the fact that economics provokes, amongst other things, strong feelings. … Continue reading
Review of a conference to mark the centenary of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Death
I was lucky enough to attend an extraordinary conference over the break entitled: “Daniel Paul Schreber centenary – 200 years of Sonnenstein: The Modern Experience and the Performance of Paranoia.” The full report appears here on H-Madness, the history of … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, critical theory, Madness and psychopathology, modernity, schizophrenia
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