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 Network, aimed to answer this question. […]
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 and Eivind Engebretsen, argues in a […]
“I felt completely filled up with ideas” NNMHR Congress 2018
Mary Coaten reviews the second congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR), 20th and 21st September 2018, hosted by The University of Leeds. As a PhD student at Durham University, working on Dance Movement Psychotherapy in acute […]
Thoughts on “The Phenomenology of Depression: A Workshop”
Emotional Experience in Depression: A Philosophical Study is a three-year AHRC-DFG funded project lead by Matthew Ratcliffe and Achim Stephan. Its aim, quite simply, is “to provide the first ever detailed, systematic philosophical study of the nature and role of […]