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
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…
Some reflections on Healing Spaces
The cover of Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture and the Body, a collected volume published in 2016 by Routledge, features an…
Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance, Birkbeck 11-12 May 2017
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, London Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 2:00 PM – Friday, May 12, 2017 at 6:30…
Reading Group: Surgery, Thursday 23 February 2017
In our first session of Spring term, we will explore themes relating to surgery via two set texts. Henry Marsh’s…
