Next week, join us for a dynamic day exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities 🩰
📆 Tuesday 28 April, 10am-4pm
📍 Durham
Book your free spot:
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Join us on 8 May for “The Relationship is the Therapy: A Symposium on Therapy, Research & Practice”: a thought-provoking event bringing together practitioners, researchers & anyone curious about human connection at the heart of therapeutic work.
Book for free:
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Join Katharine Cheston, IMH Honorary Fellow, on Monday 11 May as she discusses the treatment of people with ME and its wider implications in terms of affective injustice in healthcare.
🕰️ 12–1.30pm
🎟️ Free to book!
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📚️ Join us on Mon 11 May 4–5.30pm for the launch of 'Blood, Sweat and Tears: A History of Bodily Fluids'.
Author Ruben Verwaal will be joined by historians & scholars of medical humanities to take a deep dive into the story of bodily fluids.
Book your free spot!
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How big is a ‘drop’? 💧 @beccajackson.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Measurement Lab and the Affective Experience Lab, recently co-authored a prize-winning paper on the story of the non-standard unit of a 'drop'.
Read the paper:
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Interested in a workshop for early-career UK researchers on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities? Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project & NNMHR.
📆 29-30 Oct 2026 | University of Stirling
Apply by 15 May
@npapadogian.bsky.social
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ICYMI – Recordings from the one-day workshop 'The Senses and Medical Humanities' organised by @claireturner.bsky.social of our Affective Experience Lab are now available to watch online. Thanks to everyone who joined us for this event!
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Last chance to update our interactive Global Medical Humanities Map! 🌍
To update your organisation's info or to add a new medical or health humanities institute, centre or network, please complete this short survey by tomorrow (31st March).
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Keen to move and be moved? Join us for Dancing Across Disciplines, a one-day event exploring dance across forms, spaces, and academic fields, with talks, practice showings, & discussion. No dance experience required!
📅 28 April | Durham
🎟 Free – register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...
A montage of images showing a masonry style medieval painting with flower and stem motif, two people looking at the painting, and a man holding an oyster shell to the camera.
A medieval wall painting hidden for centuries is giving new clues to the grand past of Durham Castle.
The painting, a masonry pattern with central flower and stem motif, was revealed during renovation work and recorded by @arcdurham.bsky.social and @durhamhistory.bsky.social 👉 tinyurl.com/3ewkbjd9
Photograph of book, The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, on a table
Photograph of open book, opened on title page of chapter within
Delighted to see my chapter within the newly published Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Really proud of how this piece came together with Lizzie and Rebecca's excellent guidance (it's not about trees, for once), & now looking forward to reading the other chapters in the collection.
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Intimate Energies: How Do Museum Collections Help Us See Unrecognised Actors in the History and Future of Energy?- University of Leeds - School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB080/a... #skystorians 🗃️
Digital publication day! 🎉
I'm very proud of this little book on a difficult subject, one I take very much to heart (as I try to do with all my work, but especially this one). Gothic Dementia is free to download until April 12th!
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Hey! Is the dream of the 90s (sustained ambitious attention to the fin de siècle American novel) alive?
Yes! In this AzQ special issue @rafaelwalker.bsky.social and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner 😎
Open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582
📢 We are hiring at IMEIS, Durham University
The School of Government and International Affairs is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics (with a focus on the Arab states).
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For academic enquiries: Professor Bahar Baser – bahar.baser@durham.ac.uk
🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)
Our brilliant colleagues Kevin Gillan and Vanessa May @uomsociology.bsky.social will be launching their new ed vol, Interrogating the Global Social Challenges @brisunipress.bsky.social at #BSA2026. FYI #sociology, on Vanessa's behalf (all deets and invite via link below).
🎉 Join us on 20 April to celebrate 25 years of Medical Humanities at Durham and honour Professor Jane Macnaughton, whose work has helped shape the field and establish Durham as a global hub for medical humanities research.
Learn more and register 👇️
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Planning to host an online-only version of this workshop in May (provisionally 20th). Let me know if you'd be interested in presenting your work - there are still several slots available!
Through case studies from around the world, the book examines lockdowns, masks, vaccines, modelling, dissent, and the politics of ‘following the science’.
This book is co-authored with Pieter Streicher from the University of Johannesburg, and published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social.
Researchers in Museums: Collections and Archives Workshop Series. Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds. 13 May; 18 June; 9 July; 1-4pm. I am delighted to be working with Thackray Museum of Medicine to host three workshops for ‘Researchers in Museums’. These interactive workshops offer early career researchers an opportunity to learn about the potential of museum collections to enrich their research. Each workshop will include: ‘Cancer in the Collections’: a unique insight into how one researcher, Dr Claire Turner (Durham University) uses Thackray’s extensive collections and archives to support her own research. Stores Tour: an exclusive guided tour of Thackray’s stores by its Collections Team, with the opportunity to learn more about the history of the museum and the objects, books, and archival materials it holds. Research Room Time: a chance to look in greater depth at books, objects and archival materials drawn from the museum’s collections. Personal Research: option to request and view an object related to your own research. Each session can accommodate up to 8 attendees, each of whom will receive a £20 bursary towards travel to the workshop. To be eligible to attend, you must be: An early career researcher (MA, PhD, or within two years of finishing the PhD) Working broadly within the field of medical humanities Expressions of interest should include a short summary of your research, how you meet the workshop criteria, and your preferred workshop date (max 250 words). All EOIs should be submitted to claire.o.turner@durham.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 17 April.
I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!
Looking forward to a Medical Humanities Network & @standrewsanthro.bsky.social seminar on March 25 with Lucas Michallet-Lanzarone on the history of vet medicine and brucellosis among sheep in XX century France medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/medhums/event/
Next Wednesday 25 March, join us for the second instalment of Lab Coat Lunches! We'll be joined by Paulina Yurman who will present methods at the heart of her Wellcome Trust-funded project Maternal Machines: Design Speculations about Fantasies of Care.
Sign up:
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Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...
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Still time to book - Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
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An image divided into three parts. In the top half is the opening of my poem Living Somewhere. In the bottom left corner is the cover of the journal it was published in, Northampton Poetry Review. In the bottom right is the end of the poem.
Had my first piece of original poetry published in Northampton Poetry Review last year and finally got my hands on a hard copy.
It’s about Corby, my hometown, and I started it way back in lockdown. I think it’s quite sprawling and messy but I do like the penultimate stanza.
Boost for Waterford tourism as Japanese mayor visits Lafcadio Hearn Gardens
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Mayor Uesada travelled from Matsue — a historic city in western Japan — accompanied by several senior …
Join us next Wednesday at Teikyo University's Lafcadio Hearn Centre for music inspired by early translations of Japanese literature. Four composers respond to Hearn's ghost stories and dialogues, performed by pianist Satoko Inoue and reader John McLachlan.
Text exceeds the character count on Bluesky. If you’d like to read the interview, please get in touch and I’ll send a copy.
My book, Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, comes out a month today!
I had a chat with Booktime magazine all about it, as well as my love of independent bookshops like @urmstonbooks.bsky.social, @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social and @serenitybookshop.bsky.social 🐈⬛
Front cover of a book _The Politics of Personal Experience_. The cover is mainly red with wavy white lines. The main title text is black on a white background.
The book is finally finished. It comes out 25th April 2026. It’s about historians’ “personal experiences”, how these might relate (critically and analytically) to their histories.
It is called _The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes_