MEDICAL HUMANITIES BULLETIN 1-Aug-2011 MEDICAL HUMANITIES BULLETIN 1 August 2011

Latest news and notices August is shaping up to be busy with over 10 events – from concerts to workshops – coming up this month. Have a look at our upcoming events for more details. There are also plenty of new calls for papers and conferences in this newsletter. The information and announcements in this newsletter are available online as normal and you can find general information on the mailing list, and how to subscribe and unsubscribe, here. Creative Doctors’ Network The CDN performance event scheduled for Thursday, 4 August 2011 – 'Performing Arts' - has been cancelled due to venue issues. The next CDN event of 2011 will be on Visual Arts night on Thurs, 3rd November. Upcoming Events Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, NSW Inc – Upcoming Medical History events  11 August 2011 - Anti‐colonial climates: physiology, ecology and the politics of global population, 1920s–1960s - 6.00–7.30 pm. Presentation by Professor Alison Bashford at the Nicholson Museum, Main Quadrangle, University of . Contact Catherine Waldby, 02 9036 7206 or [email protected]  17 August 2011 - A genetic journey through cancer: from rarity and family to aspirin and nanowires - 3.45–5.00 pm. Presentation by Sir John Burn at level 4, Lowy Cancer Research Centre (C25), UNSW Kensington Campus. Contact Cristina Kennett, 02 9385 3064 or [email protected]  22 August 2011 - The return of the POW: war, trauma and the authentic voice of the survivor in Australian history - 12.00–1.30 pm. Presentation by Dr Christina Twomey at the Refectory, Southwest corner of the Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney. Contact James Curran, 02 9351 2988 or [email protected]  25 August 2011 - Fatness 1950: weight stigma, psychiatric medicine and pharma in midcentury America - 6.00–7.30 pm. Presentation by Professor Nicholas Rasmussen at the Refectory, Southwest corner of the Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney. Contact Catherine Waldby, 02 9036 7206 or [email protected]  3 Sep - The long reach of Cecil Cook’s career: presenter Mr Barry Leithhead. 2.00–4.00 pm at the Conference Room (4.5), Kerry Packer Education Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Johns Hopkins Drive, Camperdown. Please RSVP to the Secretary, Peter Hobbins, at [email protected] or on 02 9569 5561.

Sydney Medical School 2011 Seminar Series - Controversies and Leadership in Health  Tuesday, August 2nd - Doctors and the Drug Industry - Practising clinicians may develop a relationship with the Pharmaceutical Industry. Are all these relationships ethical?  Monday, August 8th - Doctors in Court - Two Senior Counsels with a special interest in medical negligence cross-examine leading clinicians in a courtroom roleplay.  Monday, August 15th - “Public and Private Hospitals – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” - Public and Private Hospitals play a vital role in Australian healthcare. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? How could they work better together? These 90 minute seminars are open to all and are held in the Footbridge Theatre from 5pm-6.30pm. More information available in this PDF.

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Concord Clinical Week 2011 and ANZAC Research Institute 10th Annual Symposium, 9-12 August 2011 . The theme for Concord Clinical Week this year is 'The Cost of Medicine'. The theme for the ANZAC Research Institute Symposium is 'Immune Therapies for Cancer'. 'The Great Debate' will be held on Thursday, 11 August, with the topic 'Men Age More Gracefully than Women'. Location: Concord Clinical Sciences Building, Lecture Theatre, contact Winston Cheung [email protected] For more info: http://www.anzac.edu.au/index.php?section=3

Monday 15th August 2011, Only critique what you love: doing scientific data outside-in, a workshop with Adrian Mackenzie and Celia Roberts. 1.30-4.00pm at the UNSW, Goodsell rooms 221/223. RSVP: Niamh Stephenson, [email protected] or 02 9385 1281. This participatory workshop will be framed around a discussion of 3 papers. Reference papers are:  C. Roberts and A. Mackenzie. (2006) ‘Science: Experimental sensibilities in practice’. Theory, Culture and Society: Problematizing Global Knowledge, Special Issue 23(2-3): 137-162. http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/vol23/issue2-3/  C. Roberts (2010) ‘Early puberty: A social scientific pinboard’, Critical 20(4): 429- 438. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09581596.2010.508103  A. Mackenzie & R. McNally (under review) ‘Protean Proteins: Methods in pursuit of identity and difference’ - email [email protected]

Australian Doctors Orchestra, Concert, Sydney Town Hall, Sunday, 18 September Each year, the Australian Doctors Orchestra plays in different venues, for different charities. This year, the Australian Doctors Orchestra (ADO) will be performing at the Sydney Town Hall on Sunday 18th September at 2.00 pm. Doctors from throughout Australia come together to play for the Australian Doctors Orchestra which has performed annually since 1993. This year the ADO is supporting “Youth Off The Streets” and “Children’s Hospital Institute of Sports Medicine”. The concert programme is: Walton: Crown Imperial; Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Soloist: Ben Martin; Elgar: Enigma Variations; Conductor: Warwick Stengards Booking via: www.ado.net.au Ticket prices: $35, $25 concession, $15 students.

New calls for papers Addiction and Its Others - University of California, San Diego, Mar 28 to Apr. 1, 2012 This call is for a panel to be proposed for the 2012 Cultural Studies Association Conference at the University of California. The panel will explore the ways in which the representation of addiction or compulsive behaviors constitute individual subjects as variously othered. Proposals are welcome from any discipline, especially ones that relate directly to the conference theme “Culture Matters” on culture and the material. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Scott St. Pierre, Oklahoma State University, at [email protected] no later than August 31. Representing Illness: Fiction’s Sick Bodies, NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) panel - Rochester, New York (Hyatt Regency Rochester), March 15 - 18, 2012. Physical illness forces us to confront the reality of the corporeal self at the very moment when physical identity is deteriorating. The significance of this panel is to explore the way in which the sick body, in its erratic and startling engagement with others and its surroundings, is a means of enscribing both individual and communal narratives. The panel seeks proposals that examine the representations and

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implications of sick bodies in both British and American fiction (Victorian / Modern). Send proposals and queries to Rita Bode at [email protected] or visit http://www.nemla.org. Deadline 30 Sep. Science and the Occult: from Antiquity to Early Modern Age - Department of History at Purdue University, April 27-28, 2012. The fascinating recurrence of alchemical symbols in European, American and Islamic thought, as well as specific non-rational methods employed by many scientists to promote rational discoveries, from Antiquity to Early Modern. Topics to be addressed could include; History of Magic, Alchemy, Witchcraft, Medicine, Herbalism, Kabala, Esoterism, Hermetism and Hermeticism, Divination, Tarot, Astrology, Tradition and Lore, Ciphers and Alphabets. Contact Angela Catalina Ghionea at [email protected]. Deadlines - Session Proposals: Sep 1, 2011, Papers: Oct 1, 2011. SAHMS Fourteenth Annual Meeting - Emory Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2-3, 2012. SAHMS welcomes papers on the history of medicine and science, broadly construed to encompass historical, literary, anthropological, philosophical and sociological approaches to health care and science including race, disabilities and gender studies. For questions or problems with the submission site, contact Dr. Lisa Pruitt ([email protected]), Program Committee Chair. We are very interested in papers on literature and medicine. To submit proposals, please visit the online submission site at: http://www.uab.edu/lister/sahms deadline is October 15. Science, Medicine, and the Making of Race - Mississippi, United States, March 8-10, 2012. This symposium seeks papers from the fields of history of science, history of medicine, and general history exploring the topic of how race and gender get written into (or out of) science, whether in the context of colonialism, slavery, healthcare policies, or museum collections. Please submit a 250-word proposal and a c.v. to conference organizers at: Theresa Levitt ([email protected]) or Deirdre Cooper Owens ([email protected]) before 16 December 2011. Upcoming conferences Virtual Anatomies: The Cultural Impact of New Medical Imaging Technologies - Brain Institute, University of Queensland, August 30-31. Over the last ten years, new imagining technologies have come to play an increasingly important role in medical research and practice. During the same period, images of the body produced by these technologies have come to circulate across a wide tange of popular contexts: on television shows, in government health campaigns and for advertising commercial products. The aim of this symposium is to assess the cultural impact of new medical imaging technologies and to examine the role of these technologies in reshaping how bodies are seen and what they are understood to mean. Registration is free but essential for catering purposes - contact Elizabeth Stephens at [email protected] Publications New calls for papers and submissions User Driven Healthcare (UDH): Medical Humanities - a special issue of the International Journal of User Driven Health. This special issue aims to examine the Medical Humanities in the context of developing countries and especially South Asia. For guidelines see http://new.igi- global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf Submissions and inquiries to Dr. Ravi Shankar at [email protected]. Submissions due October 30, 2011

Mosaic – special issue on Blindness - - Mosaic is a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature. We seek submissions relating to any of the following: blindness as disability; blindness in theory; exposition or exposé; architecture's historical and contemporary engagements with light and sight; humanism; image; history and philosophy of the senses; sexual difference; autobiography; surveillance; spectacle; animal ethics; perception; psychoanalysis; prosthesis; weeping; vision and visuality; haunting; gaze; the frontal perspective. Submit at www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic/submit Deadline February 21, 2012.

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New resources and exhibitions

Virtual Mentor issue July 2011 (Vol 13, No: 7) A PDF of the full issue is available online. It explores the ethics of writing about patients and examines the sometimes conflicting, sometimes synergistic duties of physician and author. http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/site/current.html Poemedica, a poetry chapbook by Rose Bromberg is available for pre-order at Finishing Line Press. Each poem in this collection conveys its own unique medical narrative and together, the poems represent a larger story of the patient experience. There is also an introduction discussing how poetry is used in medicine. Vaccine journal has released a special issue on Historical Influenza Pandemics which may be of interest to many historians of medicine. It is available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X

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