Events, Lectures, News
Evening Lecture with
Rita Charon, MD, PhD
(the founder of Narrative Medicine)
December 2, 2015; 6.30 pm
Hörsaal 19, Anatomie
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
From the twentieth century to the twenty-first century, the interpretative models and spaces of action in medicine have shifted from observing and influencing biological processes towards the biological and technological shaping of health and disease. Examples are manifold: assisted reproduction, prenatal diagnostics, organ transplantation, longevity and dying – in all of these boundary experiences, the role of medicine has changed fundamentally and has influenced the ways in which we conceptualize and deal with human life.
These developments have also resulted in new approaches to explaining and understanding human life and life narratives in social and cultural studies (life writing). As a result, the field of the humanities with its expertise in narratives and interpretation has increasingly been incorporated in biomedical research and health care. The inter-disciplinary graduate program is dedicated to investigate the complexities of narrativity and narratability between the life sciences and life writing.
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Guest Lecture
Paula A. Treichler
“Medicine, Money, and Illness Narratives: Whose Story?”
11/24/2015
4-6pm, SB II, 03-436
Paula A. Treichler is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS, A Feminist Dictionary, and The Visible Woman: Imagining Technologies, Gender, and Science.
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Guest Lecture
Elisabeth Engel
“‘Risks will be Taken:’ Insurance and the Uncertain Beginnings of American Independence, 1770s -1840s”
11/18/2015
4:15-5:45pm, Philosophicum, P103
Elisabeth Engel is postdoctoral research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. In her lecture, she will explore how notions of “risk” were constructed and inscribed into the everyday routines of revolutionary Americans as the British imperial power retreated.
Events, Lectures, News
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Greg Robinson is Professor of History at the Université du Québec À Montréal, Canada and Obama Fellow. He is visiting the University of Mainz in May and will give several lectures dealing with a variety of topics.
A preliminary program can be downloaded here.
