January
11-15:
Drew University’s Transatlantic Connections Conference in Bundoran, Ireland. Thematically revolves around Equality Emerging: The Field of Medical Humanities’ Influence on Healthcare Access and Delivery.
March
9-10:
First International Arts & Dementia Research Conference in London, England.
9-11:
Health Humanities Consortium 3rd Annual Conference at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, TX. Conference theme: Diversity, Cultures, and Health Humanities.
10-11:
2017 International Conference on Medical Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. The conference will explore the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It will promote an interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, health care and the body. The conference will also focus on the issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill.
24:
Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind hosted by ArtsAdmin in London, England. This one-day symposium draws upon histories of madness, its exhibition, and how it has been staged as cultural performance. Spectacular Evidence will also explore the behaviors and ‘performances’ acted out in the relationship between patient and physician.
30-Apr. 1:
GHHS 2017 National Conference at Westin O’Hare in Chicago, IL. This year’s theme is “Cultivating Resiliency Through Humanism and Community.”
April
3-4:
Other Psychotherapies–across time, space and cultures at the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland. Topics include Ancient approaches to psychotherapy, Geographies of Psychotherapy, Postcolonial/Indigenous Psychotherapies, and Subcultural Psychotherapies.
20-21:
The Globalisation of Autism: Historical, Sociological, and Anthropological Reflections at Queen Mary, University of London in London, England. This symposium will consider how and why autism became a global category, and what the implications of this are for understanding autism, research networks, and health policy in the future.
21-23:
Speak, body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life at the University of Leeds in Leeds, England. Speak, body sets out to investigate artworks that emerged coincident with the crisis of capitalism in the 1960s and 1970s in order to consider what they can tell us about contemporary transformations in art and politics.
28-29:
Creating Space VII: Dreaming the Myth Onward: The Stories We Don’t Always Tell (A CCME pre-conference) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Creating Space (CS) is an annual meeting exploring the evolving use of arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) in healthcare education.
May
19-20:
CHCI Medical Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida.
27:
Conflict, Healing, and the Arts in the Long 19th Century at Durham University in Durham, England. This conference will investigate the ways in which the arts—materially, sonically, and aesthetically—promoted, transformed, and negated experiences of healing for soldiers, civilians, and communities between 1774 and 1918 across European Empires, the Americas, Asia, and Africa.
June
21-24:
SLSAeu Conference: Empathies – European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.
29-30:
Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference at the University of Exeter in Exeter, England.
July
3-5:
International Conference on ‘Medicine, Literature and Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World’ at the University of St. Andrews in St. Andrews, Scotland. This conference aspires to bring together experts in medicine, literature, history, and related or connected disciplines, including the visual arts, to share research and ideas with a focus on medicine and its role in the Spanish-speaking world in the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. The aim is also to foster an interdisciplinary approach to answering questions that have arisen in the research focus stated above, and propose future collaborations.
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