What’s On Events Calendar

Join another winter Confabulations event which will explore entanglements of art, psychiatry, and therapy, in their histories, practices and institutions.

• Research event

We are delighted to host Dr Jaipreet Virdi's lecture on Dorothy Brett's "The Stokowski Symphony", which will explore the ways in which the artist's most underrated portrait series captures how her hearing aids mediated her experiences of music.

• Lecture

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Join us for the last winter Confabulations event which will focus on entanglements of art, psychiatry, and therapy, in their histories, practices and institutions.

• Research event

An in-person event to mark the publication of Anne Whitehead’s Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective.

• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

You are warmly invited to attend the Postgraduate Durham University Open Day events to experience Durham campus first-hand and find out more about the new taught MA in Medical Humanities!

• Masters
• Open days & visits

You are warmly invited to attend the Postgraduate Durham University Open Day events to experience Durham campus first-hand and find out more about the new taught MA in Medical Humanities!

• Masters
• Open days & visits

You are warmly invited to attend the virtual Postgraduate Durham University Open Day and find out more about the new taught MA in Medical Humanities!

• Masters
• Open days & visits

Join us for another Confabulations event which will be this time a panel formed around the artwork of Kathy High, a key case study from the Stomach Ache project.

• Research event

This session will focus on the role of a producer in delivering successful virtual events.

• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

IMH seminar with Dr Robert Chapman on the ascent of cognitive generalism in the late twentieth century.

• Lecture
• Research event

Join us for another Confabulations event!

• Research event

Join us from 19-21 April 2023 for CRITICAL, the fifth annual congress of the NNMHR.

• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

IMH seminar with Dr Xine Yao on the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling in medicine.

• Lecture
• Research event

You are warmly invited to attend our virtual "Progress to PG" events and find out more about the new postgraduate programmes at IMH.

• Masters
• Open days & visits
• Everyone

You are warmly invited to attend our virtual "Progress to PG" events and find out more about the new postgraduate programmes at IMH.

• Masters
• Open days & visits
• Everyone

This seminar will draw on public health medicine consultant, lecturer, and author Dr Anya’s recently-published medical memoir, Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria, which charts the triumphs and failures of his student days through to his first demanding year as a house officer against the backdrop of political unrest, social change, and a worsening economy in Nigeria.

• Lecture
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

IMH seminar with Prof. Ericka Johnson on interdisciplinary medical humanities research on the prostate.

• Lecture
• Research event

A roundtable discussion between Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Keren Hammerschlag, Tania Cleaves (née Woloshyn), Rebecca Whiteley and Sonia Favi.

• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

There is increasing recognition of the co-occurrence of autism and psychosis. Despite this, there remains a lack of understanding of what may underlie co-occurrence, how to best measure co-occurrence, and the impact that co-occurrence may have on functioning, symptoms of psychosis, and other risks including depression and suicide. This talk will explore each of these areas in turn.

• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Calling Durham researchers working with visual methods and materials in relation to health! Join colleagues at all career stages from across the university for an experimental workshop where we will think about images and image-making beyond your own discipline, seed new ideas, and scope the potential for collaborations across institutes and disciplines.

• Workshop