Katja Herges

Physician turned literary scholar. PhD German @ucdavis. medhums, chron illness, life writing, feminism, posthuman. Views my own

[Steven Wilson @PrStevenWilson]

Pleased to receive the hard copy of *Cultures of Palliative Care*, vol 42.1 of Literature and Medicine. Terrific essays on end-of-life care from different cultural and linguistic perspectives, plus a compelling ‘front matter’ section on Afterlife. https://t.co/rDMyHEYiGn

[Monika Pietrzak-Franger @franger_monika]

Very much looking forward to talking about #visual #culture, #sexuality and #Cultural #Studies

[MedHums_BMJ @MedHums_BMJ]

Read the Call for Proposals for a forthcoming Medical Humanities Special Issue on “Queer Medical Humanities” https://t.co/fIsKnoHMtq #medhums

[Angela Marques Filipe @Angela_SocSci]

My new article "Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities" is now available: https://t.co/hqWh8cPSRw
Chuffed to see this long-form photo essay and foray out, fully OA @MedAnthroTheory, and moved that it was published on #LongCovidAwarenessDay

[Arya Aryan @Arya_Aryan1981]

Delighted to announce the interdisciplinary workshop “What are the Medical Humanities? Current Trends and Future Developments” on 8 March 2024.
You will find the programme by clicking on the link:
https://t.co/mKiHdXGkK9

[Dr Marie Allitt @MarieAllitt]

Here is a really easy opportunity to educate yourselves about ME/CFS & post-viral illness more widely, in this excellent thread by Laura.
Also a great reminder that we need the history & lived experiences of illnesses & diagnoses in order to understand medicine today & always

[Centre for Culture and the Mind @cultmindcenter]

If you are an anthropologist, historian, psychologist and/or literary scholar working in medical humanities: check our the two new postdoc positions opened in our center below, and consider applying and joining our interdisciplinary team!

[Monika Pietrzak-Franger @franger_monika]

I am incredibly grateful to my co-editor @a_m_elsner and all our contributors for the insights on how the #COVID19 pandemic has changed #medicalhumanities @BPrainsack @KirstenOstherr @davidhoustonjon

[Katja Herges @katjaherges]

I am grateful to Uta Melle, Jackie Hardt and Esther Haase for the images and the collaboration.

[Katja Herges @katjaherges]

Look what is in my mailbox! My article re-examines the politics of gender and sexuality in breast cancer photography. Thank you @literature_med for making it open access. Please have a look- there are many pictures! https://t.co/2V5bm0DwEv

[Medical Humanities Glasgow @glasgowmedhums]

Call for Book Proposals - for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine, w/ @drgavinmiller as Lead Editor, published w/Edinburgh University Press; @EdinburghUP @DurhamIMH @NNMHRmed @MedHumsIreland
@AHumanities @NarrativeMed https://t.co/7hpEJWoUnM

[Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum]

@oonagh_cousins For more thoughts on Long Covid - and the parallels with the viral sequelae of other pandemics - you might want to read my and @TheLakshmiK article in The Lancet https://t.co/Te5s4L5dnX

[UTP Journals @utpjournals]

In the latest issue of Seminar, Katja Herges (@katjaherges) of @CIRHI_UniWroc discusses critical questions raised by "Herznovelle" and "Schuppenhaut” regarding approaches to decolonization in German studies and medical culture. Learn more in 59.3: https://t.co/JfVSElATrv

[UTP Journals @utpjournals]

Explore desire, race, and gender in #German medical romance #literature through the narratives of "Herznovelle" and "Schuppenhaut.” Learn about bourgeois sexuality and whiteness in modern culture in Seminar 59.3: https://t.co/JfVSElATrv

@katjaherges @CIRHI_UniWroc @ucdavis

[Hard Times Magazine @hardtimesmag]

In our new issue on 'health' @franger_monika writes on Long Covid: Digital Health Technologies, Patient Activism, and Illness Narratives. Also articles on poetry, childhood, concerts, sex education, stories, the NHS and care! https://t.co/B54BY70qWo

[Hard Times Magazine @hardtimesmag]

Hard Times 107 on 'health' is out! Ownership, care, stories, poetry, concerts, childhood, digital tech, sex education. Here is a list of the contents. https://t.co/B54BY70qWo

[Malte Thießen @maltethiessen.bsky.social @malte_thiessen]

"Covid-19 pandisziplinär und international", ed. Alexander Krämer & Michael Medzech in @SpringerNature, with fascinating insights in a global comparative #epidemiology of Covid and historical, political and religious impacts of the pandemic in English and German.

[Xavier Bonilla @xavierbonilla87]

🚨 A huge happy #pubday to @manon_garcia. I highly encourage everyone to buy her book, The Joy of Consent, which is out today! Listen to my conversation with her in a few weeks!

[DisabilityMatters @DisMatters]

Our first event is now live! Join us in December for a series of Online Symposia.

We'll be welcoming 12 different speakers to explore how their work has been transformed by engaging with critical disability studies. Book your free ticket now at https://t.co/17jIjPje4g