Institute for Medical Humanities

🎉We're delighted to welcome Richard Walsh to the Platform as a Visiting Fellow. Based in the Narrative & Cognition Lab, Richard will be exploring the problem of the implicit with respect to narrative.

Read our interview with Richard to find out more - including what he'd title a film about his research!

Introducing Richard Walsh: New Visiting Fellow in the Narrative and Cognition Lab | The Platform We are delighted to welcome Richard Walsh to the Platform, who joins us as a Visiting Fellow in the Narrative and Cognition Lab. Richard is a Professor of Narrative Studies in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He will be a Visiting Fellow in the Narrative an...

🎥Due to popular demand, we've released more tickets for our upcoming symposium from the Visual & Material and Narrative Practices Lab! Themed around the intersection of gender and genre, this in-person event will celebrate and explore the latest work on moving images in Medical Humanities.

Registration details below:

Gender and Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image An exciting one-day symposium at Durham University celebrating the latest work on moving images in the Medical Humanities.

Get Involved — ReaderBank EXPERIENCE get involved BIG SOMETHING BE PART OF Each year, the ReaderBank releases new studies, activities, and surveys for readers to participate in. These will normally orientate around a theme. There are many ways of getting involved with ReaderBank! Sign Up to Readerbank In 2023, we investigate...

💡What are the benefits and challenges of working with a working group as part of a humanities PhD?

In their new Project Short - published today on the Working Knowledge website - Veronica Heney, Ashley, Eleanor Higgins, Naomi Salisbury and Sarah-Jayne Hartley reflect on some of the complexities of working in this way, describing both the decision-making processes and how the group shaped the research project.

Read more about "Engagement, experience and power: Working with an advisory group" below:

https://medhumsplatform.org/new-publication-working-with-a-lived-experience-advisory-group-as-part-of-a-phd/

Our summer newsletter has just landed in inboxes! Follow the link below for all the latest news and insights from IMH and the Platform, including:

🌏 how you can get involved our global hashtag and health humanities survey
📚 upcoming ReaderBank activities at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
💡 recent highlights from The Polyphony

Find out what we’ve been up to here:

IMH newsletter: February 2024 News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.

🎉Today's the day! Welcome to everyone joining us in Durham for the in-person launch of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.



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Collective trauma has had many names. Mass psychogenic illness, mass sociogenic illness, reactive psychological disaster syndrome, mass hysteria and choreomania are some of them. What do these collective illnesses have in common? How can historians make sense of the real psychological and bodily experiences of the collectively afflicted in the absence of pathological causes, normatively conceived? Dr Rob Boddice will discuss this in our forthcoming research seminar. Everyone is welcome!

Wed, 28 Feb 2024, 16:00-18:00, hybrid event

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Is there a history of the nocebo effect? Global reflections Dr Rob Boddice puts the case for a history of the nocebo effect and the power of situated belief to cause real and lasting harm.

Save the date for a hybrid seminar with Dr Tanisha Spratt (King’s College London) brought to you by The Black Health and the Humanities Network and the Measurement Lab:

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:30 - 18:00 GMT

The presentation will be followed by a facilitated discussion chaired by Dr Arya Thampuran and Dr Coreen McGuire.
This seminar is part of a series of research events exploring issues at the intersection of race, healthcare, and research culture.

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Tanisha Spratt on Self-Identity as Method: Exploring Light-Skin Privilege This hybrid seminar is a collaboration between the Black Health and the Humanities Network and the Measurement Lab.

We are getting ready for the launch of the Affective Experience lab, one of six labs in Durham University’s new Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

Wed, 7 Feb 2024 13:00 - 16:00 GMT, Tom Percival Annexe

The lab will experiment with innovative methodologies from across disciplines to generate new insights about the relationship between emotion and health. It is led by Corinne Saunders and Fraser Riddell, from the Department of English Studies at Durham University, alongside an interdisciplinary team from the Institute of Medical Humanities.

Affective Experience Lab: Launch Event An opportunity to shape the work of the Affective Experience Lab by mapping research interests and exploring possible connections.

CANCELLED: Ken Kosik's hybrid talks on Fri,1 and 2 Feb 2024

We are really sorry to inform you that the visit and talks by Professor Kosik planned for this Thursday and Friday have to be cancelled due to the speaker falling sick. While we wish Ken a speedy recovery, we will keep you updated once his talks and visit are rescheduled to a later date.

Ken Kosik: A Neuroscience of Disembodiment: Brain Organoids A hybrid Passport Talk brought to you by the Narrative and Cognition Lab

Join us for a hybrid seminar 'Storying Later Life: Key Concepts in a Narrative Perspective on Ageing' by Prof William Randall, Emeritus Professor of Gerontology at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada.

Tue, 30 January 2024, 12:00–13:30 GMT | Online & In-person

The event will be available on a hybrid basis and include a light lunch for in-person attendees at 12:00. The online talk will start at 12:30. The seminar is organised by the Narrative Practices Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

Storying Later Life: Key Concepts in a Narrative Perspective on Ageing A hybrid seminar organised by the Narrative Practices Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.