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Digestive Modernisms seminar Wednesday 10 May

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Digestive Modernisms seminar Wednesday 10 May

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An update about the next Digestive Modernisms event. The seminar organisers have had to create an Eventbrite sign-up for the Digestive Modernisms seminar to avoid vulnerability to 'zoom bombing'. If you were planning / would like to attend, please register in order to receive the correct meeting link for the seminar:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digestive-modernisms-research-seminar-2-tickets-620700410637

Wednesday 10 th May, 4pm BST (5pm CET)

Louise Benson James (University of Ghent) - ‘Of course one’s stomach being nearly the whole of one, it is apt to have very large pains’: The digestive system in Radclyffe Hall’s Adam’s Breed (1926).

Derek Ryan (University of Kent) - 'James Joyce's ‘Lestrygonians’ and the Modernist Gullet'

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Digestive Modernisms: Research Seminar 2

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Eventbrite - Digestive Modernisms presents Digestive Modernisms: Research Seminar 2 - Wednesday, 10 May 2023 - Find event and ticket information.

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Digestive Modernisms - Spring 2023 Research Seminar Series

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Digestive Modernisms - Spring 2023 Research Seminar Series

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Please join us for a series of online talks about modernism and digestion as part of the
Digestive Modernisms research network. These events are free and open to all. The talks will be
streamed on Microsoft Teams (see links below) and will last approximately 90 minutes, including
time for Q&A. Live captioning will be available.

Research Seminar 1 – Wednesday 5th April, 4pm
Microsoft Teams Link: https://tinyurl.com/digmod1
Genevieve Smart (Birkbeck, University of London) - ‘The Passage to Gender Indeterminacy: F.
T. Marinetti’s Guts’
Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh) - ‘Of Steaks and Suffragettes: The Vegetarian Politics of
Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day’

Research Seminar 2 – Wednesday 10th May, 4pm
Microsoft Teams Link: https://tinyurl.com/digmod2
Louise Benson James (Ghent University) - ‘Of course one’s stomach being nearly the whole of
one, it is apt to have very large pains’: The digestive system in Radclyffe Hall’s Adam’s Breed
(1926).
Derek Ryan (University of Kent) - 'James Joyce's ‘Lestrygonians’ and the Modernist Gullet'

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Digestive Modernisms - Spring 2023 Research Seminar Series

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY and Advice Session for Research Networks in the Medical Humanities

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY and Advice Session for Research Networks in the Medical Humanities

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http://nnmh.org.uk/what-makes-a-good-research-network-nnmhr-new-networks-grant-26th-april/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-makes-a-good-research-network-nnmhr-new-networks-fund-tickets-569239790537

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Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research

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Online Event hosted by the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR)

Weds 26 April, 14:00pm (GMT)

Register here.

To coincide with the 2023/24 round of our NNMHR New Networks scheme, we invite you to this online discussion and advice event about the ins and outs of running a medical humanities research network. The event will offer advice on the application process and reflections for those applying for this grant, and will also be of general interest to all scholars and practitioners engaged in critical medical humanities research anywhere in the world.

We will be joined by three sets of speakers:

Camille Bellet (Manchester University)

Camille will discuss the recent launch of the Nonhuman Animals in the Medical Humanities Network ( https://namhnetwork.wordpress.com/). Based at University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and funded by NNMHR, the NAMHN brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, artists, writers, practitioners, and activists to rethink and revive the role of non-human animals within the medical humanities. She will outline the network's planned use of an 'exchange platform' to support dialogue between scholars, artists, writers, practitioners and activists interested in post-humanist and multispecies approaches as well as how the project's partners are coordinating their network's objectives and rationales with its day-to-day practices.

Arya Thampuran (Durham University)

Arya will discuss her roles across a set of research network activities in the medical humanities: her leadership of the Black Health and Humanities network ( https://www.blackhealthandhumanities.org/) as it moves from one institution to another, the imminent launch of the Neurodivergent Humanities network, and the research seminars conducted through the Cultures of Madness project. She will focus particularly on how to build a sense of community beyond old models of 'academic networking', thinking through how networks can reframe the "research output" in ways that speak instead to collective interests, values, and learning needs from researchers who sit at the intersection of arts, academia, and activism/across different disciplines and fields. She will connect these discussions to the practicalities of care: how to maintain connections across hybrid work-spaces, how to develop non-extractive and collaborative methodologies in the medical humanities, how to engage with material that intersects with researchers' lived experiences, and how to develop mentorship models for researchers.

Jemma Walton and Kate Errington (Birkbeck)

Jemma and Kate will discuss their ongoing project Broadly Conceived ( https://broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/), a growing research network project that began life as a reading group and continues to expand in exciting new directions and opportunities. They will outline how they set out to create a supportive, interdisciplinary space for postgraduate and early career researchers interested in reproductive health knowledge and activism. Their discussion will focus on the importance of social media and creating online presence, as well as how the Broadly Conceived project focuses on collaboration and networking to build insight and connections with academics, as well as activists and other kinds of practitioners.

The event will be chaired by James Rákóczi (Durham/Northumbria), project lead of the Ends of Knowledge network ( https://www.endsofknowledge.com/), on behalf of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research.

The deadline for the second round of the NNMHR New Networks in Critical Medical Humanities Funding Scheme is Friday 12th May, by 17:00 (GMT). Apply now!

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What Makes a Good Research Network? NNMHR New Networks Grant, 26th April - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research

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Online Event hosted by the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) Weds 26 April, 14:00pm (GMT) Register here. To coincide with the 2023/24 round of our NNMHR New Networks scheme, we invite you to this online discussion and advice event about the ins and outs of running a medical humanities research network.

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Movement and Bodies - January Colloquium Event 

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Movement and Bodies - January Colloquium Event 

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In person and on Zoom (email movandcare@gmail.com for link)

Friday, January 20th, 9 a.m. London time/10h, heure de Paris
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, 20, avenue George Sand, 93210 La Plaine Saint-Denis

Christine Leroy -

Phenomenology, Contact Improvisation, and Clinics: Lived Bodily Boundaries
Marie Mazzella Di Bosco -

What is “healing” in the context of “free-form” and “mindful” movement practices like 5 Rhythms Dance or Movement Medicine? An ethnographical and relational approach.

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Movement and Bodies - January Colloquium Event

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In person and on Zoom (email movandcare@gmail.com for link) Friday, January 20th, 9 a.m. London time/10h, heure de Paris Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord, 20, avenue George Sand, 93210 La...

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Music, Medicine and History Wednesday Seminar Series - January 18th 2023  

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Music, Medicine and History Wednesday Seminar Series - January 18th 2023  

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Our inaugural Wednesday Seminar will be online on January 18th 2023 at 3pm (UTC).
We are delighted to welcome James Kennaway, who will be giving a paper on 'Enchanted Technology: Sound & Mind Control in Conspiracy Theory'.

Zoom link: https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/85496607816

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"Disability, Bad Horror, and M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’"

Our podcast _Drawing Blood_ engages with art, histories of science and medicine, and the macabre. Very often interacts with medhums themes and questions!

For example, this new episode covers harmful representations of disability in movies, art, and society; aging and chronic illness; the history of medical experimentation; critical disability studies; and “crip time”. You can listen at the links above, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Previous episodes include plastic surgery and Andy Warhol; medieval depictions of surgeon-saints Cosmas and Damian; and human remains in museums.

Happy listening!

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Cultures of Madness Seminar Series -      Haunting, alienation & uncertain selves: White is For Witching (24 Jan 2023, 4-5pm, Zoom)   

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Cultures of Madness Seminar Series -      Haunting, alienation & uncertain selves: White is For Witching (24 Jan 2023, 4-5pm, Zoom)   

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Register here to receive Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunting-alienation-uncertain-selves-white-is-for-witching-tickets-488738258287

Join Kelechi Anucha, Veronica Heney, and Arya Thampuran for a discussion of Helen Oyeyemi’s captivating 2009 novel White is for Witching. The novel follows Miranda Silver, a young woman who has lost her mother, and whose experiences of grief and mental distress are intertwined with the malevolent presence and even actions of the family home, The Silver House. Refusing conventions of genre and form the novel draws variously on gothic, magical realist, and Afro-Caribbean folklore to create a dazzling prism of both urgency and instability. Through this multiplicity of uncertain hauntings the reader is encouraged to engage with themes of (un)reality, hostile spaces, and what it means to both consume and be consumed. Following initial prompts and provocations, the event will prioritise wide-ranging discussion between all attendees, as we explore the complexities and nuances of this extraordinary text.

“The first madness was that we were born”: Cultures of Madness in 21 st Century Writing

Hosted by the University of Durham Institute for Medical Humanities, the ‘Cultures of Madness’ seminar series attempts to consider the representation of madness and mental distress in innovative and important literary texts published across the previous two decades. In particular the series draws on a wide range of fiction and memoir to explore the different frames and conceptual structures through which madness, mental distress, and non-normative mental states are understood, experienced, and represented. Drawing on Decolonial, Neuroqueer, and Mad approaches the series draws into relation gender, race, class, and sexuality to consider genre, form, voice, and structure in 21st century literatures of madness.

Rather than academic presentations, each event will begin with brief reflections from the co-convenors, introducing the text(s) and offering conceptual frameworks, pressing questions, or areas of potential exploration. For the following 40 minutes all attendees will be welcomed to participate in wide-ranging discussion, exploring what it means to ‘read madness’ through and with the text, or alternatively what it means to read the text through and with our experiences of madness. The series explicitly does not focus on the presentation of existing work; rather we hope to centre and enable the broad exploration of cultural texts, the sharing of ideas and conceptual frameworks, and the opportunity to generate innovative critical vocabularies for the discussion of mental distress and madness in cultural texts.

Full Seminar Series - dates for your diary, Eventbrite pages to follow.

The Vegetarian, Han Kang – Tuesday 8th November 2022

White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi – Tuesday 24th January 2023

Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi – Tuesday 21st March 2023

The Terrible, Yrsa Daley-Ward & I want to die but I want to eat Tteokbokki, Baek Sehee – Tuesday 23rd May 2023

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Medical Humanities and the Ethics of Editing

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Medical Humanities and the Ethics of Editing

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Click here to learn more and register for the NNMHR's first event of 2023. January 12th, 5pm to 6:45pm.

What are the opportunities and pitfalls in the relationship between editorial practice and the medical humanities?

With speakers from The Polyphony, Synapsis, the Literature and Medicine journal, and NIHR!

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Arden Hegele is Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she also teaches in Medical Humanities. She is founding editor, with physician Rishi Goyal, of the health humanities journal Synapsis. Her recent publications include Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading (Oxford University Press, 2022) and the edited volume Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2022). One of the stated missions of Synapsis is to develop conversation amongst those 'thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing'. Arden will discuss the origins of Synapsis as a "Department Without Walls", and her aim as editor to build community across biomedical science, humanistic study, and public engagement.
Adam Harangozó, 'Making Medical Knowledge Accessible.'
Adam Harangozó is the first Wikipedia Editor in Residence at the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Adam has previously worked in a similar role for the Blinken Open Society Archives in Hungary and organises Wikipedia related events for vulnerable and less represented communities. He also writes articles regarding cultural and political issues, his latest publication being 'Passenger Pigeon Manifesto'. His role at NIHR is to develop pathways for healthcare professionals and academics to make their research more visible and accessible through Wikipedia editing. Adam will discuss the opportunities and difficulties of this editorship role at NIHR and outline how researchers and patient representatives alike can become involved in open access healthcare communication projects.
Catherine Belling, 'Challenges of Editing Peer-Reviewed Journals in Health Humanities Research.'
Catherine Belling is Associate Professor of Medical Education at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. She was editor-in-chief of Literature and Medicine from 2013 to 2018 and has been Editorial Board Member of many further leading journals such as Journal for Medical Humanities and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Her publications include A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria (Oxford University Press, 2012) and multiple editorials such as 'Reading like an editor: a farewell note' (Literature and Medicine, 2019). Catherine will discuss the unexpected challenges and under-acknowledged responsibilities of being editor-in-chief and participating on editorial boards.
Chase Ledin, 'Cultural Translation and Editing as Leadership.'
Chase Ledin is an Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at Edinburgh University. He is acting Editor-in-Chief of The Polyphony, a Durham University-based web platform that aims to stimulate conversations in the critical medical humanities. He has published numerous research articles about representations of chronic HIV, most recently 'Stories of HIV activists during COVID-19 in the UK' with Olujoke Fakoya and Jaime Garcia Iglesias (2022). Chase will discuss current and upcoming intiatives of The Polyphony, such as the Polyphony Meets China project between the Narrative Medicine Research Centre (NMRC) at Southern Medical University (SMU) and Durham's Institute for Medical Humanities. He will consider how editors relate the day-to-day decision-making of editing whilst overseeing a team of editors and cultivating broader ambitions for a journal's future.

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Medical Humanities and the Ethics of Editing

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Arden Hegele is Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she also teaches in Medical Humanities. She is founding editor, with physician Rishi Goyal, of the health humanities journal Synapsis. Her recent publications include Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading (Oxford University Press, 2022) and the edited volume Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2022).

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Call for Submissions: NNMHR Congress 2023

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Call for Submissions: NNMHR Congress 2023

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An opportunity to be involved in one of the biggest events in the medical humanities conference calendar of 2023.

Please submit your proposal for the Congress by Friday 13 January 2023. You can access further information, as well as the form to submit proposals through this link.

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Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research

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What does the 'critical' in critical medical humanities mean to you?

What has critical medical humanities accomplished in the past ten years, and to what extent has it delivered on its early claims and promises?

What is happening in the field today (and conversely, what is not happening enough)? Where is this happening, who is involved, and who and what has been left out or marginalised in this turn?

What should be the aims and ambitions of critical medical humanities for the next ten years? What forms of material change should the field seeks to bring about, in what sites and settings, how, and for whom?

'Critical' is a mobile and multifaceted term that signifies differently according to context. It can imply urgency and importance, perhaps even danger or crisis; it might suggest productive analysis and evaluation on one hand, or scepticism, negativity and fault-finding on the other; for many scholars it brings to mind the literary, philosophical and political traditions of critique.

This congress marks a decade since the 'critical' turn in medical humanities. It takes as its starting point an experimental symposium hosted by Durham University in late 2013, which sparked a series of conversations around the 'critical' that fundamentally reshaped the field. Reframing the critical as collaborative and 'entangled' rather than necessarily oppositional, and emphasising the benefits of cross-disciplinary collaboration, methodological experimentation, creative risk taking and reflective practice, 'critical' medical humanities was proposed as a way of moving beyond a servile or antagonistic relation to medicine and practices of healthcare (Viney et al 2015). Ten years later, this congress invites a consideration of the extent to which the early promises of critical medical humanities have or have not been fulfilled.

Asking 'what matters for critical medical humanities now?', this call for papers encourages delegates to identify and address the most significant issues - thematic, methodological, structural - facing the field today. For example, how is critical medical humanities responding to the long-overdue call to decolonise global health, or to the challenges of climate change? We also invite delegates to consider the ways in which critique intersects with material practice and embodied experience - how critical medical humanities 'matters' - and to reflect upon how the field might actively produce transformative material change.

Practical details

CRITICAL will be the fifth annual congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR), jointly hosted by the NNMHR and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. The previous congress, held online in 2021, was attended by over 1,300 delegates from across the globe, including Europe, USA, South Africa, the Middle East, and Australasia.

The 2023 congress will similarly take place entirely online, with the explicit aim of encouraging international participation and remaining accessible and inclusive of those who might find attending in person difficult for health, financial, caring or geographical reasons.

We particularly welcome proposals from those who do not necessarily identify themselves as medical humanities researchers, as well as from those working outside the formal structures of the university.
We invite abstract proposals for the following types of contribution:

Ready-formed panels. As well as the tried-and-tested 'three papers and a Q&A' format, we encourage experimentation with alternative presentational formats (performance, dialogue, 'in conversation with', etc.). Panels should be for sessions of 90 minutes in duration. (750-word (max) abstract including panel title, plus short (50-word max) bio for each contributor.

Individual 20-minute papers (which will be grouped into thematic 90-minute panels by the conference convenors). 250-word (max) abstract including title, plus short (50-word max) bio.

Lightning talks (using Ignite [20 slides, 15 seconds each) or Pecha Kucha [20 slides in six minutes] formats). 250-word (max) abstract including title, plus short (50-word max) bio.

Video poster presentations. 250-word (max) abstract including title, plus short (50-word max) bio.

Proposals should address one of the following thematic strands:
Critical (what?)

What has critical medical humanities accomplished in the past ten years, and to what extent has it delivered on its early claims and promises?

What are the most pressing issues and challenges for critical medical humanities today? What should it focus its attentions on? What should be the aims and ambitions of critical medical humanities for the next ten years?

Who and what has been left out or marginalised by the critical turn? How does critical resonate in different ways across different fields, and what affordances does 'critical' have beyond the academy? Are there limitations to the critical that need to be acknowledged and worked around?

Collaboration (with whom?)

If the critical was a call to collaboration, how has this worked in practice? Has the critical turn helped or hindered wider engagement with activists, professionals and stakeholders in other arenas? How critical medical humanities can work more effectively with third sector partners?

How has critical medical humanities' relationship with aligned and emergent fields including (but not limited to) critical disability studies, neurodiversity studies, trans studies, mad studies, climate change and extinction studies, and critical university studies evolved in the past decade, and to what effect?

To what extent has an emphasis on collaboration and entanglement helped generate methodological innovation across different disciplines and sectors, and does the current emphasis on collaboration risk privileging some kinds of collaborators over others?

Contexts (where?)

Where does critical medical humanities happen? What are its normative sites of practice? How and where does it operate beyond the university?

How has the critical turn in medical humanities manifested differently across different national contexts and different disciplines?

How has the critical medical humanities responded to recent calls for decolonisation of the field? How can critical medical humanities better foreground and support non-western perspectives whilst avoiding an extractive logic?

Methods (how?)

How do questions of ethics, care and epistemic injustice shape the methods of critical medical humanities?

To what extent can pedagogy in critical medical humanities be considered an area of active methodological experimentation?

Materialities (to what effects?)

How are different minds, bodies and subjects (both human, non-human, more-than human and post-human) made to matter through different methodological and disciplinary approaches?

Are there specific local and global health challenges that critical medical humanities particularly well-equipped to address?

What transformative material effects has the field had on human health (broadly understood) in the past decade, and where and what might it aim to 'matter' in the future?

How to submit proposals for NNMHR Congress 2023:

Please submit your proposal for the Congress using this form by Friday 13 January 2023. All proposals will be reviewed by staff at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University in consultation with the NNMHR Congress Steering Group, and presenters will be notified by mid-February. If you have any questions, please contact the conference organisers at *protected email*.

The NNMHR Congress is free to attend.

Our hashtag is #nnmhr2023.

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What does the 'critical' in critical medical humanities mean to you? What has critical medical humanities accomplished in the past ten years, and to what extent has it delivered on its early claims and promises? What is happening in the field today (and conversely, what is not happening enough)?

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Announcement of the first Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) event of 2023! Online only. 'Medical Humanities and the Ethics of Editing' Thursday 12th January 2023, 5pm GMT. Click...

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