Come and join us to imagine a future for the critical medical humanities in-and-against the university!
We invite members! We invite reading group proposals! We invite members to lead reading groups! We invite collaborations!
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For year 2022/23, reading group or research seminar/workshop proposals can speak to, but are not limited by, the following organising themes and questions:
- FORMATIONS: What kinds of relationships are possible between medicine, therapeutic practice, and the critical humanities? How are these entities constructed and constrained by the “impact”-seeking university? Does a commitment to the critical medical humanities necessitate a reflexive interest in the funding streams of interdisciplinary knowledge-production?
- HIERARCHIES: How are (perceptions of) the medical humanities shaped by existing hierarchies of disciplines, and how do these relate to social injustices of race, class, gender, disability, nationhood, and sexuality? How might a collective examination of the use of paradigmatic “objects” of medical humanities (e.g. lived experience) draw attention to the smoothing effects and wider tensions of the field’s ambitions for more ‘equitable’ futures?
- PEDAGOGIES: Is there a role for critical medical humanities in healthcare education? What would allow these fields to converse beyond alleged divides between ‘applied’ and ‘critical’ approaches? How can we communicate the importance of medical humanities without relying upon understandings drawn from the field’s origins in liberal humanist ideology?
To discuss a proposal or collaboration in the first instant, email James Rákóczi or Harriet Cooper at endsofknowledge [at] gmail [dot] com