IASH Intellectual and Literary History

For all medical and health humanities enthusiasts out there, I'd like to draw your attention to our Australasian health and medical humanities network facebook group! We're planning to post updates on what's happening in our community in this new group chat - including events, project updates, film releases, etc. - and we're also hoping to get some creative conversations going! Please, join us if you're interested! Everyone is welcome - including international friends and colleagues!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556784279134

Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network The Health and Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary cluster of fields focused on the social dimensions and cultural aspects of health and medicine. Key aims of the Australasian Health and Medical Humanities include: integration of humanities subjects into health and medical education; establishing postgraduate training in health and medical humanities subjects; and promoting individual and collaborative research in the health and medical humanities.

The 2nd Australian Health & Medical Humanities Public Lecture is on tomorrow, Wednesday June 1! Join us at 5.15 pm on zoom here (no need to register): https://uqz.zoom.us/j/88291357442

The lecture, on "Gender and the Medical Humanities," will be delivered by Associate Professor Alison Downham Moore, with a response by Dr Mia Harrison.

Brisvegans are welcome to join us in the Writers' Studio at UQ - venue info in link below:

2nd Annual AH&MHN Public Lecture: Alison Downham Moore – Australasian Health & Medical Humanities Network

IASH's Phil Almond on how the West discovered the Buddha via the Conversation.

Friday essay: how the West discovered the Buddha From talk of a ‘poisonous doctrine’ to mistaken beliefs that he hailed from Africa, Western thinkers got Buddhism wrong for a long time.

Great piece by IASH's Philip Almond which discusses some key facts about "virgin" Mary via the Conversation.

5 things to know about Mary, the mother of Jesus In the New Testament, there is nothing about Mary’s birth, death, appearance, or age. What we do know about the mother of Jesus is, in fact, quite surprising.

Ian Hesketh examines some of the mythmaking techniques of Big History via Aeon Magazine

We should be wary about what Big History overlooks in its myth | Aeon Essays Sweeping the human story into a cosmic tale is a thrill but we should be wary about what is overlooked in the grandeur

IASH's Phil Almond discusses Scott Morrison's "religious paradox" via Crikey

The Morrison religious paradox For such an evangelical, in many ways Scott Morrison shows no real Christian values on the most important topics, such as welfare, equality and immigration.

Check out the inaugural issue of the Australian Journal of Law and Religion

Home - Australian Journal of Law and Religion The Australian Journal of Law and Religion is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the complex and dynamic interactions of faith and law in Australia and the South Pacific.

IASH's Phil Almond discusses the issue of Adam, pre-Adamites and the dispute over the Indigenous peoples of Australia via ABC Religion and Ethics

The division of the races From the time of the voyages of Columbus and Vespucci, there arose the question of the origin of the inhabitants of the New World, and how they fitted into the scheme of the Old. One solution was the belief that there might have been different origins of humankind rather than one — Adam and Eve. W...

IASH research fellow Nick Heron discusses his recent Journal of the History of Ideas essay on "Kantorowicz’s Dante" via the JHI blog.

Nicholas Heron on Kantorowicz's Dante - JHI Blog by contributing editor Shuvatri Dasgupta

IASH's Philip Almond poses a series of questions about Morrison's religious beliefs via youtube.

Scott Morrison says he is guided by his religious beliefs. Should we be concerned? "It's a miracle,' some of the mainstream media declared when Morrison won the May 2019 election. He himself believed that was the case, so we're told.Scott M...

Iash's Philip Almond on five things worth knowing about the Devil via The Conversation

Friday essay: Satan is back (again) — the Devil in 5 dark details By the end of the 19th century, the Devil had become a figure of myth. Ironically, that helped his image proliferate in popular culture.