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Curating the Medical Humanities Workshop: Birkbeck, 13 September 2018

Posted on 11th July 201816th July 2019 by uble293

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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Reading Group: Attention and its Medicalization – 1st March and 22nd March 2018

Posted on 8th February 201816th July 2019 by ubsjon02

The Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group will meet twice in the Spring Term 2018, on 1st March and 22nd March,…

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Reading Group: Audre Lorde’s ‘Cancer Journals’, Wednesday 17th May 2017

Posted on 14th April 201716th July 2019 by uble271

This reading group will look at breast cancer, and will be led by Dr Helen Thomas. We will meet on…

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Creative Writing and Mental Health: A Seminar Series

Posted on 24th March 201711th October 2017 by uble293

What can writers and teachers of Creative Writing learn from psychiatry, neuroscience, and other medical disciplines about the links between…

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Reading Group: Portraiture and Illness, Thursday 23 March 2017

Posted on 3rd March 201718th April 2017 by uble293

This reading group explored the relationship between portraiture and illness, and was led by the artist Tim Wainwright. It met…

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Fluid Physicalities: day conference, 10th March 2017

Posted on 3rd March 201718th April 2017 by uble293

Blood; ejaculate; spit & phlegm; tears; mucus & pus; urine; diarrhoea; milk; vomit; sweat. Sometimes the body seems to be…

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Some reflections on Healing Spaces

Posted on 3rd March 201716th July 2019 by uble293

The cover of Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture and the Body, a collected volume published in 2016 by Routledge, features an…

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Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance, Birkbeck 11-12 May 2017

Posted on 23rd February 201711th October 2017 by uble293

Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, London Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 2:00 PM – Friday, May 12, 2017 at 6:30…

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Reading Group: Surgery, Thursday 23 February 2017

Posted on 10th February 201716th July 2019 by uble293

In our first session of Spring term, we will explore themes relating to surgery via two set texts. Henry Marsh’s…

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New Books Series: Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture and the Body, Birkbeck, 3 February

Posted on 4th January 2017 by uble293

Friday 3 February 2017, 2-5pm, Keynes Library (room 114), School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square This event marks the…

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