Events

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Upcoming events

26.11.2026 Modernism and Medicine – Ulrika Maude presents new work in Medical Humanities

Thursday November 26, Cal2102, 14-16

Professor Ulrika Maude, University of Bristol, presents new publications in the field of modernism and medicine, including Samuel Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge UP, 2025) and Key Concepts in Medical Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2027). 

Ulrika Maude is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Bristol, where she also directs the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science.

Event open to all and followed by coffee and cake. 

Past events

29.10.2026 Research Seminar: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motherhood (online)

10.9.2026 Histories of Healthcare (Galleria Lahja, SIG 213, 14-16)

23.3.2026 Book launch: Empiirinen kirjallisuuden ja lukemisen tutkimus – Menetelmiä ja käytäntöjä (14:15-17:00, Arcanum A113)

16.3.2026 Seminar – Endometriosis Research Now: Innovations in Narrative and Digital Medicine (15:00-17:00, Arcanum A112).

23.2.2026 From PhD to Publication: How to Write a Book, Meredith Carroll.

10.12.2025 Flash Seminar (Centre for Culture and Health/SELMA event).

9.12.2025 Research Seminar: Arts & Humanities in the Clinic.

19.11.2025 Current Intersections Seminar. Conversations on: Forests and Wellbeing.

4.11.2025 Research Seminar: Kieli & Kulttuuri (in Finnish).

7.10.2025 Research Seminar. Trauma & Testimony

9.9.2025 Centre for Culture and Health: Meet the Team

3.6.2025-29.6.2025 ‘Modern’ Mothering, Childhood and Healthcare. Exhibition (Turku City Library)

20.5.2025 Current Intersections Seminar: Autism in Representations and Social Interaction

9.5.2025 Danielle Spencer presents “Narrative Medicine and Metagnosis”

5.2.2025 Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing: Mental Health, Culture and Communication (Zoom)

12.11.2024 Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing: Agency and Care in Literature and Film

14.5.2024 Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing: Mind and Body in Culture and Health

12.4.2024 Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing: Structural racism and migration

8.3.2024 SELMA & Kulttuurin ja terveyden tutkimusyksikkö: Symposium – Humanistinen terveyden ja sairauden tutkimus: lähestymistapoja, menetelmiä, käsitteitä.

23.11.2023 Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing: Linguistic inclusion in social and healthcare services

12.10.2023 LaWen, KULTVAn sekä Kulttuurin ja terveyden tutkimusyksikön etäseminaarisarja, Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing, seminaari: Narratives of Illness and Recovery

11.5.2023 LaWen, KULTVAn sekä Kulttuurin ja terveyden tutkimusyksikön etäseminaarisarja, Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing, ensimmäinen seminaari: Can we talk about death?