Tuesday 4th February 2025
CHHS / School of Modern Languages: Fascism’s Forgotten Victims – Interned LGBT People in Italian psychiatric hospitals, 1922 – 1943
Speaker: Gabriella Romano (Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, Temple University, Rome)
5.00-6.30pm
ARTS CMPLX 1.H0020, Woodland Road, University of Bristol
Wednesday 5th February 2025
Interactive workshop with Dr Simon Hall and Dr Catherine Lamont-Robinson on a new Brigstow Institute project, ‘Prosthetic Futures‘.
2 – 3:30pm
G16 Cotham House, University of Bristol and via Zoom.
For more information about the event please email: kathryn.body@bristol.ac.uk
Past events
Friday 22 November 2024
‘Bodies: 2’ is an all-day event showcasing the significance of the medical humanities to our thinking about health and healthcare.
Some of this year’s speakers include: Joanna Cannon (The Trouble With Sheep and Goats, Three Things About Elsie, Breaking and Mending, A Tidy Ending), Rachel Clarke (Dear Life, Breathtaking, The Story of a Heart), Nathan Filer (The Shock of the Fall, This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, Co-Director of the Research Centre for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Creativity), Kat Lyons (Bristol City Poet), Henry Marsh (Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery, Admissions, And Finally, pioneer of awake craniotomy techniques and neurosurgery in Ukraine), Matt Morgan (Critical: Stories from the Front Line of Intensive Care Medicine, One Medicine: What Animals Can Teach Us), Anthony Warner (The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating, The Truth About Fat, Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World Without Destroying It), Benji Waterhouse (You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here).
The day is aimed at the general public, health professionals and all of us who have been, or will be, patients.
Tickets may be brought for the whole event, or the day or evening separately.
10 – 5:15pm
Wills Memorial Building
Queen’s Road
Bristol
Full details about the event and ticket purchase
Monday 16th September 2024
Lorna Mitchell, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Plant Humanities
University of Bristol, Arts Complex, Woodland Rd, Room G33
Wednesday 25th September 2024
CHHS, EPIC & ‘Beyond Voice’ Research Seminar: ‘Mania and the capacity for silence’ (Dr Dan Degerman)
University of Bristol, G2 Cotham House
Thursday 26th September 2024
‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences
9:30 – 5pm, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building (L103)
Please direct any questions to the Centre administrator, Kathryn Body: kathryn.body@bristol.ac.uk