The Medical Humanities public lecture series comprises medical practitioners, scientists, theatre-makers, artists and poets whose lectures and presentations engage with the growing interdisciplinary field of medical humanities, in pursuit of intellectual synergies and their application to medical pedagogy and practice. It is presented by the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, and the ICA.
Read more about the 2017 and 2016 Medical Humanities series below.
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2017
23 August: Ruth Levin-Vorster & Tracey Derrick | Theatre, Photography, Empathy & Healing
30 August: Marc Hendricks | 'Upright Citizen' and Other Stories...
6 September: Jay Pather & Nadia Davids | Theatre, Memory & the Post-trauma City
13 September: Amrita Pande | Made in India: A Performance Lecture
20 September: Sean Baumann | Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair
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2016
14 April: Carla Tsampiras | Time-Travelling Through an Epidemic: HIV, History and the Here and Now
21 April: Philani Sikhakhane, Sara Matchett & Mdu Kweyama | Theatre Arts, Precarity and Youth Health
28 April: Lester Davids, Shose Kessi & Berni Searle | Skin Lightening and the Politics of Beauty
5 May: Sean Baumann & Finuala Dowling | Madness, the Opera
12 May: Susan Levine & Steve Reid | Social Justice and the Medical Humanities: the Health of Marginalised People