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\u2018<\/span><\/span>Generate: Prompting the New in the Medical and Health Humanities\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

An online symposium organised by the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Health Hub.<\/em><\/p>\n

11-<\/span><\/span>12<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>May 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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PROGRAMME:<\/p>\n

Monday 11th<\/sup> May <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

12.00\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome and Introductions<\/strong><\/p>\n

12.05-13.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel: Clinical Encounters, Diagnosis, and Knowledge-Making<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Charlotte Baker, Lancaster University<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Generating Environmental Health: Medical Curricula and the Production of Health Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe’<\/p>\n

Carlos Fernando Teixeira Alves\u00a0(Masaryk\u00a0University, Czech Republic)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Generating Disorder: Speech, Body, and Case Writing in Late Imperial Russian Psychiatry’<\/p>\n

Polina\u00a0Kosaretskaia (HSE University, Russia)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Functional Seizures and the Generative Potential of Video-Based Diagnostic Encounters’<\/p>\n

Paula\u00a0Muhr\u00a0(Brand University of Applied Sciences, Germany)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Re\u2011Personalizing the Patient? Precision Medicine and Epistemic Injustice’<\/p>\n

Niloufar Hosseinalipour (University of Minnesota)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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13.00-13.30\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

13.30-14.00\u00a0\u00a0 Workshop:\u00a0The Margins of Disability in sub-Saharan Africa: What \u2018counts\u2019 and who decides?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charlotte Baker\u00a0(Lancaster University, UK)<\/p>\n

Elvis Imafidon\u00a0(SOAS, University of London, UK)<\/p>\n

Kobus Moolman (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)<\/p>\n

Kirsten Deane (University of the Western Cape, South Afrca)<\/p>\n

Emelda Ngufor Samba (University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon)<\/p>\n

Jason Richardson (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)<\/p>\n

Mooniq Shaikjee (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)<\/p>\n

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14.00-15.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel: Technology, AI, and the (Re)Production of the Self<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Ben Dalton (Lancaster University)<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Generating the Trackable Self: Health apps and the politics of wellbeing’<\/p>\n

Maricella Mogollon\u00a0(Lancaster University, UK)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘Prompting the self: generative AI and the automation of therapeutic dialogue’<\/p>\n

Joshua Clark\u00a0(UCL, UK)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘Liminal Health Activism in Trans-Inclusive Primary Care’<\/p>\n

Inna Blus-Kadosh\u00a0(Bar-Ilan University, Israel)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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15.00-15.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Comfort break<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>15.15-16.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel 6: Public Health, Media, and Collective Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Steph Wright (Lancaster University)<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Unsettling the Imperative to Produce Evidence: Neurodiagnostic Intermediality in Daniela Tarazona\u2019s The Divided Island’<\/em><\/p>\n

Velebita\u00a0Kori\u010dan\u010di\u0107\u00a0(Anahuac Mexico University \/ National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM)\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘\u201cAfrica must demonstrate leadership and solidarity in the face of this crisis\u201d: Syndemic Resilience in Online News Coverage of Mpox in Africa’<\/p>\n

Caroline Williamson\u00a0Sinalo\u00a0(University College Cork, Ireland)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘Producing Childhoods on the Okhta: Making Babies and Toys in the Soviet 1930s’<\/p>\n

Pavel\u00a0Vasilyev\u00a0(HSE University, Russia)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Tuesday 12th May <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9.00-10.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Creative Practices, Art, and Healing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University)<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Working with Clay: Myths, moulding and (re) making the working self’<\/p>\n

Jo Carruthers, Lee Hansen, Kath McDonald, Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster University, UK)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘New things and new knowledge? The case of endometriosis’<\/p>\n

Susanne\u00a0Ilschner\u00a0(Australian National University)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘The health of the haunted bodies’<\/p>\n

Joe\u00a0Varghese\u00a0(Reading University, UK)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

10-10.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Comfort break<\/strong><\/p>\n

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10.15-11.15\u00a0\u00a0 Panel – <\/strong>Gender, Health, and Marginalised Experiences of Care<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Alex Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University)<\/em><\/p>\n

‘”How can we make this comfortable?”: Imagining ‘good’ trans deaths and dying through the materiality of care.’<\/p>\n

Thy O\u2019Donell (Australian National University)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘”Proud to Resemble No Other Being”: L\u00e9opold Chauveau (1870-1940) and the Generative Potential of Monstrofuturism’<\/p>\n

Nat Paterson\u00a0(University of Glasgow, UK)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘Communal art as a tool for healing and learning’<\/p>\n

May Farres (McGill University, Montr\u00e9al, Quebec) <\/span>and Jessica King (School of Professional Studies, City University of New York) <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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11.15-11.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Comfort break<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

11.30-12.00\u00a0\u00a0 Workshop – \u201cSeeing the island anew\u201d: Scenario-based futures and the medical humanities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matt Finch\u00a0(Sa\u00efd Business School, University of Oxford, UK)<\/p>\n

Alberto\u00a0Giubilini\u00a0(Uehiro\u00a0Oxford Institute, UK)<\/p>\n

Cristina Voinea\u00a0(Uehiro\u00a0Oxford Institute, UK)<\/p>\n

Halina\u00a0Suwalowska\u00a0(Ethox\u00a0Centre, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) at the University of Oxford, UK)<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u00a0Dewarumez\u00a0(University of Toulouse, France)<\/p>\n

Eleanor Kerfoot (History, University of Oxford) <\/span><\/p>\n

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12-12.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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12.30-13.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Workshop:\u00a0The Body Is Not an Object:\u00a0Reconceptualising Embodiment in Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finty\u00a0Royle\u00a0(Lancaster University, UK)<\/p>\n

Pranj Pokharel<\/span> (Lancaster University, UK)<\/p>\n

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13.00-14.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel: Reproduction, Bodies, and Biopolitics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Ben Dalton (Lancaster University)<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Reproduction and National Regeneration: Holistic Fertility Centres and the Body in India’<\/p>\n

Adhvik Shetty (University of Oxford, UK)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘Pregnancy Beyond the Binary: Trans and Non-Binary Migrant Experiences of UK Maternity Healthcare’<\/p>\n

Diya Paresh\u00a0Padiyar\u00a0(Lancaster University, UK)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘”The Mothers of Gynecology”: Medical Reparations in Reproductive Healthcare’<\/p>\n

Laura Smith (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘When the womb turned into a cemetery: An auto-ethnography of silent miscarriage’<\/p>\n

Sayendri\u00a0Panchadhyayi\u202f(RV University,\u00a0Bangalore, India)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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14.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Closing remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n

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