We're looking for a 3-yr PDRA in Health Inequalities to join us in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities Durham Institute for Medical Humanities, working with Jesse Proudfoot Durham Health & Social Theory Group.

BSA Medsoc AKA @[email protected] Med Anthro Theory Medical Anthropology Cost of Living Blog - health/sociology/politics please share if you can!

✨New publication✨Marc Keller & Anna M. Elsner have contributed to an edited volume on the #ethics of #assisted suicide. Check out their article on Emmanuèle Bernheim's 'Tout s'est bien passé'.

Bonus - the entire volume is available #OpenAccess

transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/ca/b…

Looking forward to receiving abstracts for the special issue of LSP on Languages in UK education: lspjournal.com/post/call-for-…

Why Scotland's curriculum review is an opportunity that we must not miss SCILT Literature&Languages University of Stirling ASMCF Tes Scotland UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social

The Reading Bodies project is hosting a creative writing workshop on burnout, overload, and resilience on June 14th at University of Exeter - all are welcome and we would love to see you there! Arts and Culture University of Exeter Exeter City of Literature Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

Continuing our #MultilingualMedHums theme, Benjamin Gagnon Chainey highlights the current lag between the anglophone and francophone health humanities in Canada and points to a number of possible solutions.
thepolyphony.org/2024/03/21/hea…

Today Anna M. Elsner and Marc Keller recorded the intro and outro for 'Assisted - The Podcast' in the Media Lab at the Universität St.Gallen (HSG). The first episode will be released this Friday at the launch of our website. Looking forward to it!

📢 Bridging Fellowships in Medical Humanities 📢

3 x 12mth Bridging Fellowships for recent PhD graduates in any relevant discipline to develop their research and careers in Durham Institute for Medical Humanities's Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

Apply April 15 durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

In the first post of an ongoing monthly series exploring podcasting practice in the medical humanities, Dr Élaina is cripping out introduces 'Massively Disabled: A Long COVID Research Podcast' (@massdisabledpod) and welcomes you to base camp...
thepolyphony.org/2024/02/28/mas…

Registration is now open to attend the annual ASMCF SSFH online Postgraduate Study Day on 16 March ! bit.ly/pgstudyday

Remember the deadline for our joint Outreach prize with SSFH is Thursday (29th). The fund is a great way to support taking French language, culture & history outside the Academy and engage with school-aged young people. We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Bringing research, practice and the public together is crucial: Assisted Lab's Marc Keller took part in a discussion on assisted dying tonight. Other guests were the Swiss physician and president of an assisted dying organisation, Erika Preisig, and journalist Matthias Ackeret.

Wir freuen uns auch! Marc Keller wird über Trauer, Depression und Liebestod in Texten und Filmen rund um die Sterbehilfe sprechen #assisted

The first in our four part series on the Sociability of Sleep (SoS) provides an introductory overview of the project and its resulting exhibition

thepolyphony.org/2024/02/12/soc…

In the latest piece from our #MultilingualMedHums theme, Avril Tynan, Anna Ovaska, and Åsa Slotte discuss the fragmented but rich range of medical humanities research and teaching in Finland
thepolyphony.org/2024/01/23/med…

We're seeking feedback! Readers and contributors are invited to complete this 10-min survey and share your experience of reading and/or writing for us. Your feedback will help to inform our future practices. 😎

Visit the survey: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0c…

deadline extended to jan 19th !

🚨New publication: *French Studies and the Medical Humanities*, by Anna M. Elsner and me, in French Studies: academic.oup.com/fs/advance-art…. This article charts the development of medical humanities in French-language cultural and critical contexts.

Looking forward to another year The Polyphony. As always, do get in touch with ideas for articles relating to psychology, therapeutics, posthumanism, interspecies medicine etc- my contact details can be found: thepolyphony.org/category/colle…
#medhums #posthums #histsci #psychology

Our EIC Dr Chase Ledin takes a look at activities from 2023 and thanks all our contributors and editors for their amazing work this year. 👏

Happy winter holidays, dear readers, and keep tuned for more exciting #MedHums content in 2024! ☃️ thepolyphony.org/2023/12/29/yea…