Thank you, Graham!

Conference flyer for a workshop on clinical spaces March 19 and 20, 2026, in Magdeburg. Map showing the location of Haus 64 with parking areas marked and contact details for Dr. Christian Vogel alongside photos of clinical spaces and a waiting area with chairs.

Program for the conference can be found here: https://get.med.ovgu.de/workshop_gesundheit_gestalten.html

Excited and honored to be presenting at this conference on clinical spaces in Magdeburg tomorrow. Looking forward to conversations with medical historians, hospital planners, and visual artists, among other fields and professions!

besonders Beiträge zu somatischen/körperlichen Krankheiten sind sehr erwünscht 😊
#medicalhumanities
#gamestudies

best. class. ever. :)

I’m thrilled to announce that the Injury Studies Network website is now online!

We are an international community of researchers, practitioners, artists, and advocates committed to the interdisciplinary study of injuries.

Visit the site to learn more and connect!
#Histsci #Histmed #injurystudies

Ein sehr schöner Band ist es geworden! Herzliche Gratulation und vielen Dank für das Vertrauen & die Zusammenarbeit @alinaboy.bsky.social; @nomosverlag.bsky.social.

Neu erschienenen: Der Band „Heilorte“ fragt nach der soziokulturellen und topografischen Verortung von Krankheit und Heilung in der Literatur von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart.

Vielen Dank an alle Beitragenden und den Rombach-Verlag @nomosverlag.bsky.social!

Infos:
www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/heilort...

„I thought of rosy sunset mists, of pink froth at a horse’s mouth” „I thought of rosy sunset mists, of pink froth at a horse’s mouth” was published in Mental Health in Literatur, Populärmedien und Medizin on page 143.

Vor ein paar Tagen ist 'Mental Health in Literatur, Populärmedien und Medizin' erschienen, hg. von @marcellafassio.bsky.social. Ich durfte auch ein Kapitel beisteuern, in dem es um Behinderung & Resilienz in Denton Welchs 'A Voice Through a Cloud' geht. OA hier www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Thank you for sharing, Ria. I hope things are good with you too, and that there'll be an opportunity to meet again soon!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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:

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...

What’s in a Name? GTE and Medical Humanities in Germany Mona Baie considers the significance of naming practices and the pitfalls of linguistic hegemony in the medical humanities through the example of the German teaching and research field GTE (History…

I wrote about GTE and medical humanities in Germany, and what this example might tell us about naming practices and linguistic hegemony in the medical humanities more broadly. Thanks to Jordan McCullough for the invitation and for being the best editor out there! thepolyphony.org/2024/11/28/g...

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

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...