Friday 24 April 2020, 10:30 to 12:00. Zoom Meeting ID: 894 517 1679 In the next session of the Birkbeck…
Tag: medical humanities
Medical Humanities Reading Group: Images, Image-Making, and the Meaning of Pain
Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00 to 16:00, at the Keynes Library (Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, WC1H 0PD) The…
Medical Humanities Reading Group: Transhumanism in Culture and in Bioethics
Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group: Transhumanism in Culture and in Bioethics Thursday 24 Oct 2019, 14:00 to 15:30, Room 101,…
Curating the Medical Humanities Workshop: Birkbeck, 13 September 2018
A one-day workshop at Birkbeck, University of London Thursday 13th September, 9.30am – 6pm Curating the Medical Humanities considers some of the…
Reading Group: Attention and its Medicalization – 1st March and 22nd March 2018
The Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group will meet twice in the Spring Term 2018, on 1st March and 22nd March,…
Medical Humanities events at Birkbeck Arts Week
There are a number of Medical Humanities events taking place as part of Birkbeck Arts Week. All events are free…
Reading Group: Audre Lorde’s ‘Cancer Journals’, Wednesday 17th May 2017
This reading group will look at breast cancer, and will be led by Dr Helen Thomas. We will meet on…
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…
