In our final session of Autumn Term 2016, we will be reading Surgeon X, a new comic book series published…
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Reading group: Breath, Wednesday 16 November 2016
The Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group aims to create a space in which academics, clinicians and students can come together…
Breath Catalogue: Monday 14 November, 2-5pm
Breath Catalogue is a collaborative work by artist-scholars Kate Elswit and Megan Nicely, and data scientist/interaction designer Ben Gimpert, together with…
Conceiving Histories project takes part in the Being Human Festival
Conceiving Histories, a new project lead by Isabel Davis in the department of English and Humanities, is taking part in…
Lunchtime talk 6 October: Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods on “What’s critical about the critical medical humanities?”
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities is a collection of thirty-six essays outlining a compelling new vision for medical…
Exhibition: ‘ENDS’. Chris Daly, Sisetta Zappone, Anna Burel & Paula Garcia Stone. 7th to 24th July
Hundred Years Gallery presents a group show by artists Chris Daly, Sisetta Zappone, Anna Burel and Paula Garcia Stone. The…
Victorian Psychology Now: 10-11 June 2016. Registration open
Reading Workshop and Symposium When: Friday 10 June 2016, 2pm-6pm, & Saturday 11 June 2016, 10am. Where: Keynes Library, Birkbeck…
Medical Horror Film Season
Four films exploring our darkest fears about objectification, fragmentation and intersection: Weds 11 May: Coma (Michael Crichton, 1978) Tues 24…
Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century
Friday 17 June 2016 09.30 – 17.30 Keynes Library, School of Arts Why were the Victorians so keenly aware of…
Medical Objects: An interdisciplinary enquiry
Current cultural debates in the fields of object theory and affect theory offer valuable perspectives on how medical equipment complicates…
