Greetings Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum!

The Health Humanities Consortium, in collaboration with the Medical Futures Lab at Rice University, is pleased to introduce the Health Humanities Syllabus Repository, a new curricular resource for medical/health humanities educators working in academic, professional, and public settings.

The…[Read more]

Greetings all,

Please see the CFPs below from the Forum on Medical Humanities and Health Studies.  Brief abstracts are due Sunday, March 3.  MLA 2020 will take place January 9-12 in Seattle, WA.

LGTB Health Humanities

Intersections of health, gender, and sexuality, including interdisciplinary approaches to health activism from HIV/AIDS to t…[Read more]

CFP: Methods of Health Humanities

Chapter proposals due July 1, 2017

The health humanities are taking shape as a unique field of study, promoted through international organizations and journals, formalized through a wide variety of curricular structures with similarly varied learning objectives. This diversity raises the question of what…[Read more]

I am posting the following on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo:

Dear Colleagues,

We hope you’ll consider joining us at Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 5-6 for the international Hippocrates Symposium on Poetry and Medicine.  This gathering of health humanities scholars and poets from around the globe is being convened this ye…[Read more]

Posted on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo, rcampo@bidmc.harvard.edu:

Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium at Harvard Medical School on 6th May 2017

Proposals for abstracts and oral presentation are now being accepted for 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium, to be convened at Harva…[Read more]

“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Sari Altschuler

Deadline: August 16, 2015.

This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]

Good morning colleagues,

I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more]

Hello,

I am writing to request your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies.  I am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only b…[Read more]

Greetings colleagues,

I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies.  I am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more]

Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)

Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]