Research Seminars
The Centre for Culture and Health explores the connections between culture, health, and illness from a multidisciplinary perspective. It is interested in all aspects of research and education relating to health and culture from pedagogical, narrative, artistic, philosophical, and biosocial perspectives (and many more!).
Research Seminars in Spring 2026
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Programme Spring 2026
January 13
Shilpi Rajpal, University of Copenhagen, “Decolonizing Mental Health: The Making of Modern Indian Psychiatry in India”
Andrew Burchell, Uppsala University, “Chronic Consumers: Patient Organizations, Advertising, and the Negotiation of Diabetes in 20th-century Europe”
February 17
Maria Teresa Marangoni, University of Exeter, “Cultures of Health and the Shape of Local Governance”
Mikko Kemppainen, Tampere University, “Runni Spa as a Scene of Natural Health Culture in Early 20th-century Finland”
March 31
Garima Shrivastava, Uppsala University, “Beyond Access: Understanding Self-Managed Abortion Through Entanglements of Law, Body, and Technology”
Sarah Howard, University of Bristol, “Childcare and Health in Socialist Ethiopia”
April 21
Laure Pesquet, Sorbonne University, “The Medicalization of Maternity in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt: State Politics and Women’s Healthcare”
Sara Villamarín-Freire, University of Santiago de Compostela, “Can Illness Cure the Disembodied Father? Writing the Vulnerable Paternal Body in Contemporary Literature”
May 12
Ivana Zečević, University of Groningen, “Exploring the Multiplicity of Childbirth Practices in Villa Maria (Uganda) and Mua (Malawi) Missions, 1900s-1980s”
Jesper Vaczy Kragh, University of Southern Denmark, “Child Psychiatry in the Clinic and Beyond”
Research Seminars in Autumn 2026
The Centre for Culture and Health at the University of Turku will also be organising a research seminar programme for Autumn-Winter 2026. If you are interested in presenting your research in the future, please get in touch with Avril Tynan (aatyna@utu.fi) and Ranjana Saha (ranjana.saha@utu.fi).
We are interested in hearing from researchers at all career stages, whose work intersects with culture, health and illness. Whether your research is in its early stages or already advanced, come and present in a relaxed and friendly environment. Presentation languages are English and Finnish. All welcome!
