Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities | Workshop
DPhil and ECR Work-in-Progress Workshop
Friday 20 June – Saturday 21 June 2025 | Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Register here:
Day 1, Friday 20 June: 9am - 4.30pm (History Faculty, Lecture Theatre)
Day 2, Saturday 21 June: 9am - 12.30pm (History Faculty)
This one and a half-day interdisciplinary workshop invites DPhils and ECRs at the University of Oxford working under the umbrella of medical humanities to share their research in a supportive environment. Those who work on topics concerning health, medicine, and disease from literature, anthropology, history, philosophy, politics, and other humanities and social sciences perspectives are invited to submit abstracts. Discussion will focus on the ways in which life and death are evidenced, understood, and represented in both academic and clinical contexts.
The workshop will include a keynote lecture by Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University: The Precarious City: New Regimes of Death and Disease in Early Modern Istanbul (open to all, regardless of participation in the workshop). See programme here.
If you have any special dietary requirements please email: medhum@torch.ox.ac.uk
Organizers: Hande Alinay; Eleanor Kerfoot, Yuxin Peng.
Medical Humanities Hub, TORCH Research Hubs
