This symposium will showcase innovative work being undertaken in the critical medical humanities at the ANU and beyond. The event will feature a keynote address from Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland), whose work on the history of science, technology and medicine, as well as on collaboration between the arts and sciences has been ground-breaking in and beyond Australia. The program includes an interdisciplinary roundtable featuring scholars from medicine, anthropology, literature, screen studies and health care. We aim to showcase the wide-ranging projects ANU is currently exploring and open up new avenues for conversation and collaboration across campus, around Australia, and internationally.

PROGRAM

Keynote Presentation (followed by Q&A)

Moderator: Keren Hammerschlag

Keynote: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stevens (President, Cultural Studies Association of Australia, and Convenor, Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network, University of Queensland). Her latest book, Normality: A Critical Genealogy.

Morning Tea

'Hearts in and out of place' Roundtable:

• Dr Michelle Barrett (ANU Medical School) 

• Dr Katharina Bonzel (Screen Studies, SLLL, ANU)

• Dr Claire Hansen (English, SLLL, ANU)

• Dr Michael Stevens (Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW)

• Dr Bríd Phillips (Health Humanities, UWA)

• Dr Jenny Davis Barnett (School of Languages and Culture, UQ)

Lunch

‘Bodies in and out of place’ Roundtable

Moderator: Keren Hammerschlag

• Associate Professor Alison Behie (Head of School of Archaeology and Anthropology)

• Dr Katherine Carroll (Sociology)

• Dr Mary Dahm (ARC DECRA Fellow, Institute for Communication in Health Care)

• Dr Jane Desborough (ARC DECRA Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health)

• Lucy Irvine (Lecturer, School of Art and Design)

• Dr Rebecca Mayo (Lecturer, School of Art and Design)

• Dr Brett Scholz (Senior Research Fellow, ANU Medical School)

• Professor Carolyn Strange (Head, School of History)

To enquire, please contact:

Dr Katharina Bonzel (Katharina.Bonzel@anu.edu.au) and Dr Claire Hansen (Claire.Hansen@anu.edu.au).