UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday 28 October, 1-2pm, Confucius Institute Kitchen: FASS Health Hub ‘social’, cake included.
 
Monday 18 November, 6pm, The Storey: A conversation with A.K. Blakemore, award-winning author of The Manningtree Witches, and The Glutton. The event is free, but registration is required here: https://tinyurl.com/2texsn3s 
 
Thursday 12 December, 1-2pm, Bowland Main B153: Exploring the funding landscape for the medical humanities with Andrew Wilkinson (Research and Enterprise Services)
 
21-23 May 2025: ‘TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers’, NNMHR Congress (online). Deadline for Cfp: 31 December 2024.  For further information, see: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/fasshealthhub/symposium/

 

PAST EVENTS

Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 May 2024: Intersectional reflections on wellbeing and healthcare spaces, an online symposium organised by the FASS Health Hub. See our programme here.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 12-1pm: ‘The Medico-Environmental Humanities: Representing Ebola in Véronique Tadjo’s En Compagnie des hommes/In the Company of Men (2017)’, Dr Steven Wilson (Queens University Belfast), Bowland Main B153

Thursday 7 March 2024, 12-1pm: ‘Negotiating discomfort: eating disorders, interpretation, and comics’, Tom Hey (ELCW), County South B59

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12-1pm: ‘Social prescribing for young people’s wellbeing: A sociomaterial, place-based and emotional take’, Dr Natasa Lackovic (EdRes), County South B89

Thursday 7 December 2023: ‘The funding landscape for the medical humanities’, an information session for colleagues in FASS led by Andrew Wilkinson from Research and Enterprise Services.

Monday 27 November 2023, The Storey Lecture Theatre, The Storey, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster: ‘Writing sexual violence in the age of #MeToo: a conversation with author Winnie M. Li as part of the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence’. With Dr Zoe Lambert (Creative Writing) and Dr Stephanie Wright (History) and kindly sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine (sshm.org), Iredell Trust and Lancaster University’s Law School.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 2-4pm, The Gregson Community and Arts Centre, Olive Bar (stage half):  Creative writing workshop with author Winnie M. Li as part of the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, in collaboration with Lancaster University’s Department of History. The workshop will reflect on some historical examples of sexual violence and how these might help us to write about such themes in the present day. Kindly sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine (sshm.org), Iredell Trust and Lancaster University’s Law School. 

Tuesday 21 November 2023: CWD-FASS Health Hub Research Seminar: Dr Michael Brown (Lancaster), ‘Bloodless Surgery and Surgical Wars: Medicine, Empire, and European Modernity, 1870-1902’

Wednesday 8 November 2023, 9-9.45, Health Innovation Campus, Business Lounge, B20

Health@Lancaster Collaboration Cafe with Professor Charlotte Baker and Dr Stephanie Wright, discussing the emerging FASS Health Hub and its aims and ambitions

What can wellbeing and health research look like in the arts, humanities and social sciences? An online symposium organised by the FASS Health Research Hub, Lancaster University, 22-23 May, 2023: FASS-HH-Symposium-Programme-May-2023

FASS Health Hub-Medical Humanities Lancaster seminar series, 2022-23: HH-MH-seminar-series-2022-23