Conferences
The MHRC and its affiliates have held a number of conference at University of Glasgow, further cementing its nationally-leading status in the medical humanities.
The 2020 British Academy funded conference Representing Women's Health (Anna McFarlane) was an innovative one-day virtual conference held as part of the Products of Conception project.
The 2018 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded conference Writing Recoveries: International Conference for Writing Interventions for Mental Health (Carolyn Jess-Cooke) offered a three-day international exploration of research in the field of creative writing in therapeutic contexts.
The 2017 Wellcome Trust funded conference Other Psychotherapies (Gavin Miller, Ross White, Cheryl McGeachan and Sophia Xenophontos) brought contemporary Western expertise into dialogue with psychotherapeutic approaches from ‘other’ spatially, historically or otherwise ‘distant’ culture. It will lead to a forthcoming special issue of the field-leading journal Transcultural Psychiatry.
The 2016 Wellcome Trust funded conference Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities (Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane) concluded the research project of the same name, and led to a special issue of the field leading journal BMJ Medical Humanities.
The 2016 Disability and Shakespearean Theatre conference (Hannah Tweed and Susan Anderson [Leeds Trinity University]) was supported by the British Shakespeare Association. The conference discussed the depiction, treatment, and uses of disability in Shakespeare’s work (and that of his contemporaries) alongside analysis of the role of disability in staging of his plays.
The 2016 Wellcome Trust funded conference Discourses of Care (Karen Lury, Amy Holdsworth, and Hannah Tweed) supported and fostered collaborative work in relation to media and questions of care and well-being, focusing on care and care giving as critical concepts. It led to an edited collection Discourses of Care with a major academic publisher.
The 2015 Wellcome Trust funded conference Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts (Hannah Tweed, Diane Scott, and Johanna Green) was held in conjunction with University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections, and led to an edited collection Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern published with a major book series.
The 2013 Wellcome Trust funded Attentive Writers conferences (Megan Coyer, David Shuttleton, Gavin Miller, Elizabeth Reeder) addressed the relationship between healthcare, authorship and authority d through three inter-related strands of thematic enquiry: (1) an historical and literary examination of ‘attentive writers’; (2) a more devolved interrogation of the field of Narrative Medicine; and (3) an examination of ‘attentive writing’ as creative practice.