MHRC events programme 2024-2025

Semester 1

23 October 2024  Dieter Declercq, ‘(Medical) Humanities as Helping Work?’  4 University Gardens, room 203

 

6 November 2024 Malica Willie, ‘Disability as Creative Space’,  Boyd Orr 411- note different room

 

20 November 2024 Baher Ibrahim,

‘Refugees and Mental Health in Glasgow: an Oral History Project’ 4 University Gardens, room 203

 

Semester 2

 

22/01/2025 1-2 pm

 

Dr Mia Chen Ma, ‘Dissecting the Future in Chinese Science Fiction: Lu Xun, Transnational Surrogacy, Male Pregnancy, and Strange Children’

 

Discussion Group

4 University Gardens, room 203 or join on ZOOM

 

 

29/01/2025 4-5 pm

 

Conversation about Queer Medical Humanities with Dr Ben Dalton and Dr John Gilmore

 

Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health

 

Online webinar

Register here

 

 

30/01/2025 4-5 pm

 

Dr Arthur Rose, ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Shame and Medicine: John Berger’s A Fortunate Man (1967) and Polly Morland’s A Fortunate Woman (2022)’

 

Discussion Group

 

Co-hosted with Infrastructure Humanities Group

 

Advanced Research Centre – Room 225 or join on ZOOM

 

 

05/02/2025 1-2.30 pm

 

Dr Hilda Reilly, ‘From PhD thesis to book that people might actually want to read”

 

PG-R and ECR Work in Progress Group

 

Advanced Research Centre – Room 225 or join on ZOOM

 

 

12/02/2025 1-2 pm

 

Dr David McOmish and Silvana Bogdanova, ‘Cosmopolitan Science in action: the role of heterodoxy and pluralism in the development of a modern medical education in early modern Scotland’

 

Discussion Group

 

Advanced Research Centre – Room 225 or join on ZOOM

 

 

 

26/03/2025 1-2 pm

 

Dr Samuel Stapley (Glasgow Royal Infirmary), ‘Perspectives on Frida Kahlo and Disability’

 

Discussion Group

 

2 University Gardens, room 208 or join on ZOOM

 

 

 

11/06/2025 12-1 pm

 

Dr Sibylle Blaimer, ‘Reflections on a Poetics of Corpulence (1770-1832)’

 

Discussion Group

**POSTPONED**

Advanced Research Centre – Room 225 or join on ZOOM

**POSTPONED**

 

11/06/2025 2-5 pm

 

End of academic year research showcase and drinks reception Hunterian Anatomy Museum & Lecture Theatre