Thank you for sharing, Ria. I hope things are good with you too, and that there'll be an opportunity to meet again soon!
18.06.2025 14:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This looks excellent! It was a pleasure to be one of the speakers at a #MedHums event in Fribourg a couple of years ago - the team there is doing great work.
17.06.2025 16:17 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much Ria @riacheyne.bsky.social! I just posted a new version with alt text, does this work? Apologies for not adding alt text earlier.
17.06.2025 09:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Poster for an international conference on "Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature" (4th and 5th July, 2025), featuring event details and a grayscale architectural illustration.
A conference schedule for Friday, 4 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.
Programme Friday 4th July
9:15-10:00 King: Welcome and Introduction
1. Section: Medical spaces across time
10-10:45 Sam Cohn: Pandemics and the re-shaping of cities
10:45-11:30 Astrid Köhler: The medicalization of the spa in the nineteenth century
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:45 Monika Ankele: The concept of “humanization” in the context of architecture and reform in 19th and 20th century psychiatry
12:45-14:15 Lunch
2. Section: The history and future of the modern hospital
14:15-15:15 Keynote Annmarie Adams: Medicine by design: the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943
15:15-16:00 Victoria Bates: Feeling blue: colour and the modern British hospital
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30 – 17:30 Keynote Magnus Nickl: Healing Architecture – Next Generation
19:00 Conference Dinner
A conference schedule for Saturday, 5 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.
Programme, Saturday 5th July
3. Section: The modern hospital and technicalization
9:30-10:15 Flurin Condrau: Patients, doctors and technology: towards a history of intensive care units in Switzerland and the UK
10:15-11:00 Gina Rauschtenberger: Computer architecture and new forms of organization. On the building history of Aachen University Hospital as a technical object 1960-1980
11:00-11:30 Coffee
4. Section: Literary representations of medical spaces
11:30-12:15 Alina Boy: Spa Culture. Spaces of Healing in 20th Century German Literature
12:15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14:45 Keynote Katrin Dennerlein: Narrating medical space in literature: Thomas Mann, the Chicago ‘Billings Hospital’ and “The Genesis of Doctor Faustus” (1949)
14:45-15:30 Mona Baie: Beyond heterotopia: on the semantics of clinical spaces in autopathographical prose of the 20th and 21st centuries
15:30-16 Coffee
16:00-16:45 Marc Keller: Spaces of assisted dying in contemporary German- and French-language literature and film
16:45-17:30 Final discussion
Abstract Conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature:
Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the ‘spatial turn’ has attracted many contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. architecture and urban planning, sociology, history, literature, and media studies. Overall, it laid the groundwork for a new conception of space: no longer a fixed container, but a dynamic category that shapes phenomena and relationships while itself being constantly reconfigured by them. Considering the broad debate following this impulse, however, one puzzling absence makes itself felt. This is the multiplicity of medical spaces that have emerged over time: from the medieval lazaretto, the psychiatric asylum, and the sanatorium to the university hospital of the present, etc. The multidisciplinary conference explores the emergence and determinators of these spaces and processes, investigating the actors, power relations, objects, boundaries, and thresholds that constitute them. Inversely, it also examines how they shape codes and roles as well as how they are represented in media, literature, and art.
Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!
17.06.2025 09:39 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Promotionsprojekt LitWiss/Medizingeschichte/Medical Humanities: Bei uns am Lehrstuhl für Medical Humanities in Fribourg ist eine Promotionsstelle (100%, 4 Jahre) im neuen SNF-Projekt von Prof. Martina King ausgeschrieben. Es geht um ärztliche Schriftkommunikation aus narratologischer Perspektive:
19.04.2025 09:20 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Literary Disability Studies
Ich freue mich sehr, dieses Semester bei der Vorlesungreihe „Literary Disability Studies“ des Offenen Hörsaals der FU Berlin mit einem Vortrag zu klinischen Räumen in der Literatur dabei zu sein. Mehr Informationen zur Reihe (& den Link zum Livestream!) gibt es hier: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/offene...
14.04.2025 16:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
0,75-1 Akad. Mitarb. (m/w/d) "Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin" (Univ. Tübingen)
Job: 0,75-1 Akad. Mitarb. (m/w/d) "Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin" (Univ. Tübingen)
http://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-142912
Tübingen, , Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Tübingen, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.05.2024
20.03.2024 19:13 — 👍 1 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote for The Polyphony! :) Read my review of the three-day conference ‘Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: British and Continental Perspectives’, and why we need *multilingual* literary and cultural disability studies, here 👇
thepolyphony.org/2023/12/18/m...
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