A one-day workshop at Birkbeck, University of London Thursday 13th September, 9.30am – 6pm Curating the Medical Humanities considers some of the…
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Creative Writing and Mental Health: A Seminar Series
What can writers and teachers of Creative Writing learn from psychiatry, neuroscience, and other medical disciplines about the links between…
Reading Group: Portraiture and Illness, Thursday 23 March 2017
This reading group explored the relationship between portraiture and illness, and was led by the artist Tim Wainwright. It met…
Fluid Physicalities: day conference, 10th March 2017
Blood; ejaculate; spit & phlegm; tears; mucus & pus; urine; diarrhoea; milk; vomit; sweat. Sometimes the body seems to be…
Some reflections on Healing Spaces
The cover of Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture and the Body, a collected volume published in 2016 by Routledge, features an…
Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance, Birkbeck 11-12 May 2017
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, London Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 2:00 PM – Friday, May 12, 2017 at 6:30…
Reading Group: Surgery, Thursday 23 February 2017
In our first session of Spring term, we will explore themes relating to surgery via two set texts. Henry Marsh’s…
Transplant and Life – the artists in conversation, Royal College of Surgeons 23 February
In this talk, artists Tim Wainwright and John Wynne are joined by Beth Elliott and Karen Taylor to discuss the…
New Books Series: Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture and the Body, Birkbeck, 3 February
Friday 3 February 2017, 2-5pm, Keynes Library (room 114), School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square This event marks the…
CFP – Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance: Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, 11-12 May 2017
At least since Thebes was beset by plague, western theatre has incubated a fascination with its own contagious power. This…
