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Medical Humanities Reading Group: Thursday 23 March 3-4.30pm

Our next reading group will explore the relationship between portraiture and illness, and will be led by the artist Tim Wainwright.

We will meet on Thursday 23 March, 3-4.30pm in Room BO2, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square.

Set texts:

  • Transplant & Life digital guide: http://www.transplantandlife.uk/en/
  • Tamar Tembeck, ‘Selfies of Ill Health: Online Autopathographic Photography and the Dramaturgy of the Everyday’, Social Media + Society, 2:1 (2016) (available online or via the Reading Group’s shared Dropbox folder: for further details of how to access, please contact Heather Tilley).

More details can be found on our website.

Please do forward details on to interested colleagues and postgraduate students.

Kind regards

Heather

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Dr Heather Tilley

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Medical Humanities Reading Group – 23 February 2017

The next session of the Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group explores the theme of surgery.

Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm (2014) is an account of his work as a neurosurgeon in the NHS. We will also read a short extract from Samer Nashef’s The Naked Surgeon (2015), which details his experiences working as a heart surgeon.

Do No Harm is available for around £5-10 online (including postage); the extract from The Naked Surgeon is available via the Reading Group’s shared dropbox folder (for further details of how to access, please contact Heather on h.tilley@bbk.ac.uk).

We will meet on Thursday 23 February, 3-4.30pm, in Room B02, 43 Gordon Square .

Please note the date for our second reading session this term: Thursday 23 March, 3-4.30pm. It will focus on portraiture and illness and will be led by the artist Tim Wainwright, whose work is currently on exhibition as part of the Hunterian Museum’s show Transplant and Life (until Saturday 20 May 2017). More details of the reading will be circulated soon. Colleagues may also be interested in a forthcoming event at the Hunterian Museum that Tim and his collaborator John Wynne are participating in: ‘Transplant and Life – the artists in conversation’ (Thursday 23 February, 7-9pm). More information on this talk can be found on the Royal College of Surgeon’s website.

For more information please visit our website.

Please do circulate details of the group and readings to interested colleagues and postgraduate students.

Kind regards

Heather

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Dr Heather Tilley

Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow

Department of English and Humanities

 

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Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body – 3 Feb 2017

New Books Series: Healing Spaces, Architecture and the Body

Co-hosted by Architecture Space and Society Centre and Centre for Medical Humanities, Birkbeck

3 February, 2-5pm, Keynes Library

You can now book your place here.

This event marks the publication of the collected volume Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture and the Body (Routledge, 2016).

We are delighted to welcome the co-editors Dr Sarah Schrank, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, and Dr Didem Ekici, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham.

Programme:

Didem Ekici and Sarah Schrank, Introduction to the volume

Didem Ekici, The Physiology of the House: Modern Architecture and the Science of Hygiene

Sarah Schrank, Naked Houses: The Architecture of Nudism and the Rethinking of the American Suburbs

Respondent: Caitjan Gainty, Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Kings College London

There will be a drinks reception afterwards.

 

All welcome!

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Practice Based – Corkscrew Spring Term 2017

CORKSCREW: SPRING 2017

Show and Tell

Hosted by Bruno Roubicek, artist and Birkbeck PhD student, show and tell sessions invite practice-based research students to present work in progress. It’s an opportunity to share your emerging practice and receive feedback in a supportive environment. Sessions through the year will consider how practice and scholarship can work together to generate insight and understanding. What is “doing knowledge” and how can practice be made evident to examiners?

On Monday 27 February, 2-5pm, join us for the spring Show and Tell session. Alongside presentations, we will discuss Sophie Hope’s article ‘Bursting paradigms: a colour wheel of practice-research’, Cultural Trends, 25, 2 (2016), 74-86 (NB. Senate House Library membership needed for access via this link).

Show and Tell takes place in G10, School of Arts. The summer date will be announced later in the year.

RSVP to Bruno here.

The Particularities of Conference Presentation

On Friday 3 March, 9.30am-12.30pm, join us for a 3-hour workshop that offers training in delivering conference presentations effectively.

Conference presentation is an essential aspect of the working life of a professional researcher.  Yet doctoral students often acquire skills in this area somewhat unevenly, learning through trial and error.  This workshop approaches the conference presentation as a moment of public performance.  It asks: what are the formal features of an effective presentation?  What techniques can a presenter use to communicate with his or her audience – whether in the context of scholarly conferences, public lectures, or arts venues?  This workshop is run in collaboration with artists from Haranczak-Navarre Performance Projects.

Participating students can then either attend or present research on collaborative practices at Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs (Friday 3 & Saturday 4 March 2017) – a symposium that explores the duet as a mode of collaboration across the disciplines.  See the foot of this email for the CFP – deadline Friday 27 January.

The Particularities of Conference Presentation is supported by the CHASE Cohort Development Fund.  Places are free but limited to 20 – booking is essential.

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Medical Humanities Reading Group, Thursday 15 December 2016, 3-4.30

In our final reading group session before Christmas, we will be reading Surgeon X, a new comic book series published by Image Comics. Set against the backdrop of an antibiotic apocalypse in near future London, Rosa Scott, a brilliant and obsessive surgeon becomes Surgeon X, a vigilante doctor who uses experimental surgery and black market drugs to treat patients. You can find out more about the series here.

You can buy physical copies in Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenuev  for £3.99. The digital copy, available as an app, also includes lots of videos and sound clips, and is £2.49.

We will meet on Thursday 15 December, 3-4.30pm, in Room B02, 43 Gordon Square.

For more information please see our website. Please do also forward on to any interested colleagues or students.

Best wishes,

Heather

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Medical Humanities Reading Group 16 November 2016 3-4.30pm

The next sesson of the Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group explores the theme of breath, and also continues our engagement with the recent publication The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, recently introduced by the editors Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods at a lunchtime lecture at Birkbeck.

Texts:

  • Jane McNaughton and Havi Carel, ‘Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap’, in The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, ed. by Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), pp. 294-309. An open access version of the text can be found by following this link (chapter 16)
  • Paul Capsis & Michaela Burger, from new production of Rumpelstiltskin (composer: Jethro Woodward), Adelaide Festival Centre: please find link here
  • Bjork, studio version of ‘The Pleasure is All Mine’ from Medulla (2004): please find link here.

We are also very pleased to welcome visual artist Jayne Wilton, who will introduce her work which explores the breath as a unit of exchange between people and their environments.

We will meet on Wednesday 16 November, 3-4.30pm, in the Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts. 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD.

For more information about the readings and Jayne Wilton, please visit our website.

Please do also forward on to any interested colleagues and postgraduate students.

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Medical Humanities Lunchtime Talk: 6th October

Lunchtime talk: 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 humanities scholarship. In this talk, general editors Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods will discuss the different meanings and configurations of a critical medical humanities and what these open up for the future of this fast-growing field. Reflecting on contributors’ Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard’s notion of ‘experimental entanglement’ they will end by focusing specifically on the challenges raised by interdisciplinary and cross-sector working in the context of large collaborative research projects and in contemporary doctoral training programmes.

Please join us on Thursday 6 October in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD, at 1pm. The talk will last for approximately one hour, followed by  refreshments, after which attendees are welcome to stay on for discussion. A link to the chapter (along with selected other chapters from the Companion) by Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard can be found by clicking on this link. There is no need to register but seats will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Please see our website for further details. We will be reading further chapters from the Companion in the Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group throughout Autumn term 2016 (more details to follow shortly).

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CHASE Medical Humanities Network Inaugural Workshop – 13th May 2016

CHASE Medical Humanities Network inaugural workshop

Across the CHASE Consortium institutions, radical and innovative research within the burgeoning field of Medical Humanities is being undertaken. The aim of the CHASE Medical Humanities Network inaugural workshop is to start to generate connections and conversations between colleagues.

CHASE colleagues and students working in the field of Medical Humanities are invited to attend an CHASE Development Fund workshop to discuss current and future work, and possible CHASE collaborations, in Medical Humanities. This afternoon workshop will take place at Birkbeck, University of London on Friday 13th May 2016. The timetable will begin with introductions and a networking lunch (beginning at 1pm), followed by group discussion of individual’s research interests, discussion of shared concerns and interests and the planning of future directions of Medical Humanities within the CHASE Consortium. Participants are then invited to attend an event at Birkbeck which is part of a new research seminar, Fluid Physicalities, which starts at 6pm.

This event is funded by the CHASE Development Fund and is free to attend. Travel costs will be met by the Fund.

We very much hope you can join us, and would be grateful if you could extend the invitation to any colleagues whom you think may also be interested. If you are unable to attend, would you like us to add you to the mailing list so that you’ll be in the loop for future events?

Please do let me know if you have any questions, and we hope to meet you soon.

All very best,

Jo Winning

Birkbeck College

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Birkbeck Medical Humanities reading group events in Spring term, 2016

This Spring term, the Birkbeck Medical Humanities reading group will explore the theme of medicine and care.

First session: Wednesday 17 February

Time: 3.30-5:00pm

Where: Room 112, 43 Gordon Square.

We will look at Marion Coutts’s The Iceberg: A Memoir (2015), an account of the death of her husband, Tom Lubbock. Please note that we will not be supplying copies of this book, but rather ask members to borrow or buy the book directly themselves. It is available online to buy for between £7-9, or available on Kindle for around £4.50.
Our next session will be held on Wednesday 16 March, 3.30-5pm, also in room 112, 43 Gordon Square. I will circulate details of reading nearer the time.

More information on the reading group, including past events, is available on our website.

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Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group Events 11 November and 9 December

Wednesday 11 November: Therapeutic Aims

Please note that this session will be held at the Wellcome Library, Euston Road, between 3-4.30. Please come to the Library entrance reception on level 2

In June 2015 the Birkbeck Centre for Medical Humanities hosted a screening of Abandoned Goods, a short essay film detailing the extraordinary collection of artworks created by patients detained in Netherne psychiatric hospital between 1946 and 1981. The artworks were created in a pioneering art studio in the hospital run by the artist Edward Adamson. Today around 5,500 pieces survive, assembled together as the Adamson Collection, one of the major bodies of British ‘asylum art’, now held at the Wellcome Trust and the Maudsley Charity. Adamson’s studio will be the springboard for our discussion.

Set texts:

  • Extracts from Edward Adamson, Art as Healing (London, Coventure, 1984);
  • David O’Flynn, ‘Art as Healing: Edward Adamson’
  • Susan Hogan, ‘British Art-therapy pioneer Edward Adamson: a non-interventionist approach’, History of Psychiatry (2000) 11.43, 259-271

Online link to images from the collection are on the Wellcome’s website: http://wellcomecollection.org/adamson-collection and South London and Maudsley Trust: http://www.slam.nhs.uk/about-us/art-and-history/the-adamson-collection

If you would like access to the film Abandoned Goods (approximately 37 minutes long) prior to the session please do get in touch.

More information is available on our webpage, along with details of past reading.

Please note the next session will be held at the Keynes Library, Birkbeck on Wednesday 9 December, between 3.30-5. We will send a reminder nearer the time.

The reading group aims to create a space in which academics, clinicians and students can come together to explore key readings, ideas and materials in the field of medical humanities. Our endeavour is to find ways of talking across the different disciplines of the humanities and medicine, and we welcome participation from colleagues interested and engaged in these areas.

For further details, and copies of the set texts, please contact Heather Tilley (h.tilley@bbk.ac.uk) and Suzannah Biernoff (s.biernoff@bbk.ac.uk)

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