Symposium: “Looking at Bodies, Sex and Gender in the Health and Medical Humanities” (5/6 June 2024)

The ANU Health Humanities Network is delighted to invite you to the 1.5-day symposium on 5th and 6th June, 2024. Aimed at bringing together ANU researchers and scholars from around Australia, the symposium will foreground intersections of sex and gender with medicine and health education in humanities, history, social sciences and creative arts research.

Registration will close by the end of Tuesday 28 May.

This symposium is brought to you by the ANU Health Humanities Network with the generous support of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts.

PROGRAM:

Day 1: Wednesday, 5 June, SRWB Room 2.02

9.00am: Opening and Acknowledgement of Country

9.10am - 11.00am: Lightning Talks: Interdisciplinary research snapshots

Moderators: Dr Keren Hammerschlag (Art & Design) and Prof Celia Roberts (Sociology) 

11.00am - 11.30am: Morning tea

11.30am - 1.00pm: Welcome

Prof. Kate Mitchell, Director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts

Research panel: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Moderator: Dr Bonnie McConnell (Music)

• Prof. Jo Winning (Monash), “Re-embodiment as Radical Collective Practice: a proposition”
• Dr. Chloe Green (ANU), “‘A body that is not to be trusted’: Chronic Fatigue and Queer Kinship in Alice Hattrick’s Ill Feelings.”
• Dr Jacinthe Flore (Melbourne), “After ‘pink Viagra’”

1.00pm - 1.50pm: Lunch

2.00pm - 3.45pm: Roundtable: Challenges and opportunities at the intersection of gender, sexuality and the health and medical humanities

Moderators: Prof Alison Behie (Archaeology & Anthropology) and A/Prof Katie Sutton (Literature, Languages & Linguistics). With speakers:

• Prof Bronwyn Parry - Dean, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
• A/Prof Elizabeth Stephens - Communication and Arts, UQ Queensland & Convenor, Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network
• Prof Birgit Lang - Languages and Linguistics, U. Melbourne
• Dr Karin Sellberg - Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, UQ

4.15pm - 5.30pm: Keynote Address (RSSS Auditorium)

Prof. Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University) "Historians, Bodies and Visual Culture."  

Moderator: Dr Keren Hammerschlag

Informal drinks @Badger & Co

Day 2: Thursday, 6 June, SRWB Room 1.02

All Day: Honours/HDR/ECR masterclass: “Borderline images and how to use them: A visual medical humanities masterclass” with Prof. Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham)

9.30am: Coffee/Tea

9.45am – 11.00am: Teaching and Learning: New directions and communities of practice in Health Humanities education

Moderators: Bonnie McConnell (ANU: CASS), Lillian Smyth (ANU: CHM).

Panel: Sandra Carr (UWA), Christine Phillips (ANU), Chris Browne (ANU)

11.00am - 12.15pm: Research Networking

Moderators: Katie Sutton (ANU: CASS), Elizabeth Stephens (UQ)

12.15pm: Closing Remarks

12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch (with masterclass participants)