Edinburgh Health and Medical Humanities Network

We offer a platform for critical health & medical humanities scholarship by fostering interdisciplinary engagements across @EdinburghUni. Based @IASH_edinburgh

[Edinburgh Health and Medical Humanities Network @EdHealthMedHums]

CONFERENCE: 9-11 October 2026 Covid Legacies: Long-Term Social and Cultural Effects hosted by ANAMED, the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilization (Istanbul, Turkey)

Abstract Deadline is 30 June
https://t.co/V7U3PKLQjy

[GENDER.ED @ University of Edinburgh @UoE_GENDER_ED]

TOMORROW!

Queer in a Wee Place – LGBTQ Lives and the 2026 Scottish Election - organised by the By
Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, supported by GENDER.ED.

21 April, 3pm, EFI

Register: https://t.co/OWBmiJds53

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

Adolescent health is at a tipping point ⚖️

Without targeted action by 2030, at least half of the world’s adolescents will live in countries where they are at risk of poor health in areas such as mental health & overweight.

Find out more 👉 https://t.co/LXO13bAjmf

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

[Global Black Studies at Duke @DukeAAAS]

Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness Movement, Method, Poethics

Edited By @DukeAAAS's @Crichlow & Patricia M. Northover
https://t.co/2lPewsLOGb

[Eeva Savolainen @Eeva_Savolainen]

@EdHealthMedHums @the_polyphony Thank you for letting me know - hope this one works! https://t.co/adfmONcR5C

[Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak]

Klaxon-not all gloom. Our brand new inter-uni seminar titled 'Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair' kicks off 2nd May: Paris Book Launch of Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime.
Online speaker series next.
Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye.
https://t.co/NOXX4Insy8

[GENDER.ED @ University of Edinburgh @UoE_GENDER_ED]

Sirisha Naidu brings ecological concerns into discussions of social reproduction in today's blog: "The ecology of capitalism represents crises for the working classes imposed by and within capitalism." Read the blog post here https://t.co/aeEcJxWV7c

[Edinburgh Health and Medical Humanities Network @EdHealthMedHums]

@the_polyphony @Eeva_Savolainen The link is not working.

[Eeva Savolainen @Eeva_Savolainen]

Thank you so much @the_polyphony for publishing my wee aphasia poem!

[The BSLS @TheBSLS]

CFP: Aesthetics of the Clinic, 11 June 2025, University of Cambridge

Abstracts due 1 April!

https://t.co/U3F5INBDu5

[FORUM Journal @forumjournal]

@LLCatEdinburgh
@EdinburghUni
@sgsah
@sgsahblog
@CEhub_Sgsah
@glasgowmedhums
@bavs2019
@BAVS_UK
@BAVS_PGs
@UoE_GENDER_ED
@the_polyphony
@EdHealthMedHums
@IASH_Edinburgh

[Spanish & Portuguese at Cambridge @SpanportMMLL]

Investigating water's queer cinematic potential, Dr Geoffrey Maguire's wonderful new book "Bodies of Water" proposes that we think not only about water but also through it, illuminating new directions for the study of queer world cinema and its evolving aesthetic strategies.

[Care For Gaza @CareForGaza]

CARE FOR GAZA | 2024

[Mona Baie @monabaie_]

We are very much looking forward to this guest lecture by @franger_monika ! Thank you so much for coming all the way to Fribourg to talk about this important topic. #LongCovid #MedicalHumanities

[Alberto Giubilini @AlbertoGiubili1]

Scholars in medical humanities (understood broadly): Please consider submitting an article for this special issue of the Monash Bioethics Review: Medical Humanities in the 21st Century: their meaning, value, and place in academic and societal discussion https://t.co/DcmQeSySjZ

[Alberto Giubilini @AlbertoGiubili1]

Jointly organized by Uehiro Oxford Institute @ethicsinthenews , TORCH Medical Humanities @OxMedHum, and Stanford Boundaries of Humanity project

[Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) @BiomedSelfSoc]

We're #hiring - passionate about health and gender? Have a background in qualitative social sciences research? Want to inform policy based on lived experience? Then this PhD, part of the EU Horizon-funded EUmetriosis project, might be for you!

More info:https://t.co/l98UbqgZoI

[SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) @SSHMedicine]

Details of some upcoming #histmed events in October
#histSTM
https://t.co/ev2ldB7FGx

[Veronica Heney @VeronicaHeney]

I was honoured to be involved with this @TheLancet Commission as part of the lived experience group led by @DrAmyChandler - we were able to raise important points about ongoing punitive treatment & the value of peer support & engaging with diverse voices: https://t.co/BRBiPTF5pI