In our final session of Autumn Term 2016, we will be reading Surgeon X, a new comic book series published by Image Comics. Set against the backdrop of an antibiotic apocalypse in near future London, Rosa Scott, a brilliant and obsessive surgeon becomes Surgeon X, a vigilante doctor who uses experimental surgery and black market […]
The Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group aims to create a space in which academics, clinicians and students can come together to explore key readings, ideas and materials in the field of medical humanities. Our endeavour is to find ways of talking across the different disciplines of the humanities and medicine, and we welcome participation from […]
Breath Catalogue is a collaborative work by artist-scholars Kate Elswit and Megan Nicely, and data scientist/interaction designer Ben Gimpert, together with composer Daniel Thomas Davis and violist Stephanie Griffin. The project combines choreographic methods with medical technology to externalize breath as experience. Dance artists link breathing and movement patterns in both creation and performance. Our goal […]
Conceiving Histories, a new project lead by Isabel Davis in the department of English and Humanities, is taking part in the Being Human Festival 2016. Whether hoping for or fearing pregnancy, the wait to find out can be difficult. What was it like for people in the past, before home pregnancy testing was available? What […]
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities is a collection of thirty-six essays outlining a compelling new vision for medical humanities scholarship. In this talk, general editors Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods will discuss the different meanings and configurations of a critical medical humanities and what these open up for the future of this fast-growing field. Reflecting […]
Hundred Years Gallery presents a group show by artists Chris Daly, Sisetta Zappone, Anna Burel and Paula Garcia Stone. The exhibition is organised by Jaime Valtierra, currently artist in residence at the space. “ENDS” brings together a collection of works concerned with the nature of contemporary image production and the exploration of the human body both […]
Reading Workshop and Symposium When: Friday 10 June 2016, 2pm-6pm, & Saturday 11 June 2016, 10am. Where: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. Victorian Psychology Now is a series of events convened at Birkbeck, University of London, that aims to bring together scholars and students from a range of […]
Four films exploring our darkest fears about objectification, fragmentation and intersection: Weds 11 May: Coma (Michael Crichton, 1978) Tues 24 May: Les Yeux Sans Visage [Eyes Without a Face] (Georges Franjou, 1960) Weds 1 June: Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1989) Mon 13 June: American Mary (Soska Sisters, 2013) All films start at 6pm, Birkbeck Cinema, […]
Friday 17 June 2016 09.30 – 17.30 Keynes Library, School of Arts Why were the Victorians so keenly aware of themselves? Why is the articulation of embarrassment such a preoccupation of nineteenth-century culture? This one-day symposium, funded by a Wellcome Trust ISSF Grant, will explore embarrassing moments in the nineteenth century, and consider the range […]
Current cultural debates in the fields of object theory and affect theory offer valuable perspectives on how medical equipment complicates the physical and emotional intimacy of the doctor-patient relationship. The objective of this project is to examine how medical tools and technologies are felt and lived, and to develop new methodological approaches towards understanding medical […]
