‘Generate: Prompting the New in the Medical and Health Humanities’
An online symposium organised by the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Health Hub.
11-12 May 2026
PROGRAMME:
Monday 11th May
12.00 Welcome and Introductions
12.05-13.00 Panel: Clinical Encounters, Diagnosis, and Knowledge-Making
Chair: Charlotte Baker, Lancaster University
‘Generating Environmental Health: Medical Curricula and the Production of Health Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe’
Carlos Fernando Teixeira Alves (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
‘Generating Disorder: Speech, Body, and Case Writing in Late Imperial Russian Psychiatry’
Polina Kosaretskaia (HSE University, Russia)
‘Functional Seizures and the Generative Potential of Video-Based Diagnostic Encounters’
Paula Muhr (Brand University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
‘Re‑Personalizing the Patient? Precision Medicine and Epistemic Injustice’
Niloufar Hosseinalipour (University of Minnesota)
13.00-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.00 Workshop: The Margins of Disability in sub-Saharan Africa: What ‘counts’ and who decides?
Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University, UK)
Elvis Imafidon (SOAS, University of London, UK)
Kobus Moolman (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Kirsten Deane (University of the Western Cape, South Afrca)
Emelda Ngufor Samba (University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon)
Jason Richardson (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Mooniq Shaikjee (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
14.00-15.00 Panel: Technology, AI, and the (Re)Production of the Self
Chair: Ben Dalton (Lancaster University)
‘Generating the Trackable Self: Health apps and the politics of wellbeing’
Maricella Mogollon (Lancaster University, UK)
‘Prompting the self: generative AI and the automation of therapeutic dialogue’
Joshua Clark (UCL, UK)
‘Liminal Health Activism in Trans-Inclusive Primary Care’
Inna Blus-Kadosh (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
15.00-15.15 Comfort break
15.15-16.15 Panel 6: Public Health, Media, and Collective Narratives
Chair: Steph Wright (Lancaster University)
‘Unsettling the Imperative to Produce Evidence: Neurodiagnostic Intermediality in Daniela Tarazona’s The Divided Island’
Velebita Koričančić (Anahuac Mexico University / National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM)
‘“Africa must demonstrate leadership and solidarity in the face of this crisis”: Syndemic Resilience in Online News Coverage of Mpox in Africa’
Caroline Williamson Sinalo (University College Cork, Ireland)
‘Producing Childhoods on the Okhta: Making Babies and Toys in the Soviet 1930s’
Pavel Vasilyev (HSE University, Russia)
Tuesday 12th May
9.00-10.00 Creative Practices, Art, and Healing
Chair: Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University)
‘Working with Clay: Myths, moulding and (re) making the working self’
Jo Carruthers, Lee Hansen, Kath McDonald, Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster University, UK)
‘New things and new knowledge? The case of endometriosis’
Susanne Ilschner (Australian National University)
‘The health of the haunted bodies’
Joe Varghese (Reading University, UK)
10-10.15 Comfort break
10.15-11.15 Panel – Gender, Health, and Marginalised Experiences of Care
Chair: Alex Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University)
‘”How can we make this comfortable?”: Imagining ‘good’ trans deaths and dying through the materiality of care.’
Thy O’Donell (Australian National University)
‘”Proud to Resemble No Other Being”: Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940) and the Generative Potential of Monstrofuturism’
Nat Paterson (University of Glasgow, UK)
‘Communal art as a tool for healing and learning’
May Farres (McGill University, Montréal, Quebec) and Jessica King (School of Professional Studies, City University of New York)
11.15-11.30 Comfort break
11.30-12.00 Workshop – “Seeing the island anew”: Scenario-based futures and the medical humanities
Matt Finch (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK)
Alberto Giubilini (Uehiro Oxford Institute, UK)
Cristina Voinea (Uehiro Oxford Institute, UK)
Halina Suwalowska (Ethox Centre, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) at the University of Oxford, UK)
Charlotte Dewarumez (University of Toulouse, France)
Eleanor Kerfoot (History, University of Oxford)
12-12.30 Lunch
12.30-13.00 Workshop: The Body Is Not an Object: Reconceptualising Embodiment in Practice
Finty Royle (Lancaster University, UK)
Pranj Pokharel (Lancaster University, UK)
13.00-14.00 Panel: Reproduction, Bodies, and Biopolitics
Chair: Ben Dalton (Lancaster University)
‘Reproduction and National Regeneration: Holistic Fertility Centres and the Body in India’
Adhvik Shetty (University of Oxford, UK)
‘Pregnancy Beyond the Binary: Trans and Non-Binary Migrant Experiences of UK Maternity Healthcare’
Diya Paresh Padiyar (Lancaster University, UK)
‘”The Mothers of Gynecology”: Medical Reparations in Reproductive Healthcare’
Laura Smith (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
‘When the womb turned into a cemetery: An auto-ethnography of silent miscarriage’
Sayendri Panchadhyayi (RV University, Bangalore, India)
14.00 Closing remarks