With/For/About 2020
We have been living through months of online-intensity. Since the beginning of lockdown in late March, most of us have moved our lives into the virtual sphere, seeing 3-D humans less and less, communicating
The context of things
Cultural health historian Finola Finn reflects on lessons learned at an ECR training day co-hosted by Thinking Through Things and Wellcome Collection.
Thinking Tools
Objects and images have been used to ‘think through things’ since antiquity, explains Sarah Griffin, assistant curator at Winchester College.
Chronicity and Crisis
Alex Morden Osborne reflects on Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities, a collaborative conference held jointly by Montclair State University’s Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times project, held at Montclair State, October 25-26, 2019.
Narratives of Health, Life and Illness
Janet Mathieson reviews the one-day workshop ‘Narratives of Health, Life and Illness’ which took place at Wellcome Collection on 27th September 2019, jointly hosted by Wellcome Collection and the Consortium of the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE).
‘Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc’: Conference Review
Julia Sutton-Mattocks reviews the international symposium ‘Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc’, University of Nottingham, 17th–18th May 2019. ‘The project of creating a “New Man” and “New
Feelings, figures, and a field ready to take centre stage: ‘Representing the Medical Body’, Science Museum, London, 28 March 2019
‘Representing the Medical Body’ took place at the Science Museum, London, on 28thMarch 2019. Words: Fiona Johnstone. Pictures: Lucy Lyons. “Did you notice that everyone was constantly talking about their feelings?” asked a colleague,
Dissecting the Visceral Body, Across Time and Disciplines: Conference Review
Isla Jones reviews the ‘Dissecting the Visceral Body, Across Time and Disciplines’ conference, University of London, March 1st 2019. The distinction between outer and inner, body and mind, has long been a point of
Working together, changing care
How to collaborate beyond the academy in research in dementia and culture? Working Together, a workshop organised by Sarah Falcus (University of Huddersfield) and Raquel Medina (Aston University) for the Dementia, Narrative and Culture
Reinventing the Medical Humanities?
Anna Magdalena Elsner reviews the Cultural Crossings of Care conference held at the University of Oslo 26-27 October 2018 Based on Hyginus’s myth of Cura, Julia Kristeva, together with Marie Rose Moro, John Ødemark