Beyond Illness Narratives and Representation: Sarcoma, Surgery and Photography
Yewande Okuleye reflects on the exhibition Close to the Bone: Patient Journeys Through Sarcoma at the Hunterian Museum, London.
Percipio, Ergo Sum: Reviewing the ‘Synaptic Odyssey’ exhibition
Swati Joshi visits ‘Synaptic Odyssey’, an exhibition themed around cognition and art at Ahmedabad’s Iram Gallery in Gujarat, India
Sensitive Subjects Pt. 3: Acknowledging Complexity in Creative Practice Ethics
Olivia Turner explores the need for ‘ethical curatorial practices’ that ‘inherently question power dynamics’ through George Vasey’s talk, Curating Complexity, and his time as Curator at the Wellcome Collection
Sensitive Subjects Pt. 2: Creative Practice and Ethics in Times of Loss
Olivia Turner reflects on the Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics workshop she organised at Newcastle University, turning to issues around bereavement and grief.
Sensitive Subjects Pt. 1: Consent in Creative Practice Research
In the first of three articles for The Polyphony, Olivia Turner reflects on ethics in creative practice research in the critical medical humanities, following a workshop she organised at Newcastle University. She begins with the issue of consent.
Beckett And The Cognitive Method: A Book Launch In 5 Objects, 3 Scholars, 1 Voice
Swati Joshi reports on the book launch of Marco Bernini’s Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives (Oxford University Press, 2021) The Bishop’s Dining Room in Durham Castle provided the fitting apparatus
Asking Great Questions: Humanistic Methodologies and the Future of Care
Jane McGrail reports back from the April 2022 conference “A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health”, where the National Humanities Center of North Carolina facilitated Medical Humanities conversations across an interdisciplinary cohort of experts.
“Living Through the Crip Conundrum”: Differing Bodyminds Event Review, Part 2
Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze review the presentations from their groundbreaking ‘Differing Bodyminds’ symposium and doctoral school, which sought to establish the position of crip theory in the Low Countries.
Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries
Disability scholars Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze describe the challenges that shaped Differing Bodyminds – Choreographing New Pathways, the first official event on crip theory in Flanders.
The Radical Healing Possibilities of Witchcare
The Witch Institute convened witches, activists, artists, filmmakers, curators, historians, scholars, feminists, healers, and more to explore the radical possibilities and dangers under Western capitalist colonialism of witchy ways of knowing, being, caring, and healing.