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SUMMARY:Global Medical Humanities: Exploring the ‘Milieu’ - Speaker to
  be confirmed
DTSTART:20211006T150000Z
DTEND:20211006T173000Z
UID:TALK162766@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:Global Medical Humanities: Exploring the ‘Milieu’\n6 Octob
 er - 8 October 2021\nWolfson College and Online\n\n*Please register for in
 -person or online attendance via http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29933.
 *\n\nConvenors\nAriane Hanemaayer (Visiting Fellow\, CRASSH\, Brandon Univ
 ersity\, Canada\, University of Exeter)\nEftihia Mihelakis (Brandon Univer
 sity\, Canada)\n\n\nSummary\nThe medical humanities is a field as diverse 
 as CRASSH\, representing the arts (e.g.\, literature\, theatre/performance
 \, fine arts\, and film)\, social sciences (e.g.\, sociology of health and
  disease\, anthropology of medicine\, the biopsychosocial model\, social d
 eterminant of health\, health geography)\, and humanities (e.g.\, bioethic
 s\, history of medicine\, philosophy of medicine\, comparative literature\
 , and spirituality and healing). The interdisciplinary strength of this fi
 eld is its ability to imagine otherwise\, to view and analyse medical prac
 tice\, knowledge and beliefs\, and experiences of health and/or illness fr
 om perspectives beyond the imperialism of biomedicine in our daily lives. 
 While some uses of the medical humanities have been instrumental in their 
 appropriation of the tools\, methods\, and ideas of 'outside' disciplines 
 to improve medical education or health care\, the medical humanities also 
 offer the critical and political promise of promoting and including otherw
 ise marginalised voices and practices in medicine. \n\nOur contemporary wo
 rld has been globalised\, and medicine has been organised and reorganised 
 accordingly\, both conscientiously and unwittingly. As lines between disci
 plines have been moved\, settled\, and colonised\, so too have the health 
 sciences and practices. Our health\, our discourse and knowledge\, and our
  health systems may appear as natural to us\, but their naturalisation is 
 tied to the globalising and organising currents that insert themselves the
 rein. This terrain of struggle\, of movement\, of practice\, requires cros
 s-disciplinary conversation and analysis. To fully understand how medicine
  and the medical humanities coalesce\, conjunct\, and construct one anothe
 r\, we present three days of diverse and multi-disciplinary events in an i
 n-person and digital hybrid format. \n\nThe events will engage with this i
 dea of the global\, medicine\, and the medical humanities through the spec
 tre of the milieu. The milieu is conceived as a space where language\, pra
 ctice\, stories\, knowledge\, and experiences combine and are combined. Th
 e milieu is pressed upon from the outside\, to recall a Deleuzean construc
 tion\, yet its contours also push back. With this focus\, we restore the m
 ilieu as central to understanding both medicine and the medical humanities
 \, their relationship\, function\, and role in imagining what is possible 
 within and outside the current space of practice and analysis. Each worksh
 op\, keynote presentation and panel will cultivate conversation across gen
 res\, performances\, knowledges\, and experiences. The panels aim to be tr
 ansformative in our local milieux while also inciting radicality globally.
LOCATION:Wolfson Colleg and online
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