Join us for a screening of Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995) and White [Mater]ial: A Video Essay on Todd Haynes’s Safe (Amber Jacobs and Catherine Grant, 2013) Birkbeck Cinema, Friday 19th October 2018, 18:00 – 21:00 Free entrance, book your tickets here. The screening will be followed by a session of the Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group on the theme […]
A one-day workshop at Birkbeck, University of London Thursday 13th September, 9.30am – 6pm Curating the Medical Humanities considers some of the key ethical, intellectual and practical challenges involved in curating medical humanities exhibitions, particularly in relation to questions of audience, accessibility, participation and public engagement. The workshop developed out of the organisers’ experiences curating the exhibition Mr […]
Thursday 7th June, 1.30-3 pm, Keynes Library, School of Arts, 43-46 Gordon Square Today, almost forty years after the development of the world’s first clinical full body Magnetic Resonance Image scanner in John R. Mallard’s Aberdeen physics laboratory, biomedical images help interpret the clinical significance of biodata for patients all around the world. But what […]
Thursday 21st June, 1-2.30 pm, Room B06, School of Arts, 43-46 Gordon Square The moment a serious diagnosis is announced creates an important crisis for a patient, as it shifts their sense of self and of their future potential. This presentation discusses the creative representation and use of the diagnostic moment in film narratives. It […]
Listen to a Backdoor Broadcasting Company podcast of this event. Day 1: 29th November 2017, 9.30am-5pm (BJA Library, Royal College of Anaesthetists, Churchill House, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4SG) Day 2: 30th November 2017, 10am-1pm (School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1E 0PD ) This event is free and […]
FREE GUIDED TOUR 7th DECEMBER 2pm. No need to book. Peltz Gallery. Birkbeck School of Arts. 8th November – 13th December 2017. Gallery opening times: Monday-Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-5pm. Closed on Sundays. Free entry. See gallery location on a map. How can something that doesn’t happen have a history? How can there be a material […]
On Non-Conception The Reading Group will meet on 7th December 3-4.30, Room 321, 43 Gordon Square, London. WC1H 0PD. Led by Dr Isabel Davis This session of the Reading Group coincides with the Conceiving Histories Exhibition in the Peltz Gallery, 8th November-13th December. Members attending the group might like to visit the exhibtion before the Reading […]
Skin There will be two linked Reading Group sessions on the subject of skin. These will be held on 19th October at 3-4.30pm (Room 114, Keynes Library) and 23rd November at 3 – 4.30pm (Room B02). 43 Gordon Square, London. WC1H 0PD. . All reading is available via Dropbox. For access please email Isabel Davis […]
Tuesday 24 October, 12-1 pm, Room 114, School of Arts, 43-46 Gordon Square The first face transplant, using a donor’s nose, chin and mouth, was performed on Isabelle Dinoire in France in 2005, but the idea of removing or replacing the face – either with a mask, or a living face – has been around […]
Thursday, 9 November 2017, 6-9 pm Birkbeck Cinema, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PD Screening: 6.30 pm (running time 45 minutes) Panel Discussion with David Souden (Head of Exhibitions (Interim) at British Museum), Rebecca Swift (Creative Producer, Entelechy Arts) and Professor Peter Tyler (Professor of Theology, St Mary’s […]
