Conferences/EventsConferences/EventsJurnet’s House Lecture in Jewish Studies 2025: Jewish Country Houses: Histories and HeritageDescriptionUEA is delighted to announce that Juliet Carey and Abigail Green have been named 2025 Jurnet's House Lecturers in Jewish Studies. Their lecture on the topic of 'Jewish Country Houses: Histories and Heritage' will take place on 26 February. We celebrate their co-edited volume Jewish Country Houses published by Brandeis University Press and Profile Books. All are welcome. Juliet Carey is Senior Curator at Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection). Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European History at Brasenose College, Oxford. She was Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project 'Jewish Country Houses – Objects, Networks, People'. Date: Wednesday 26th February Location: Julian Study Centre Lecture Theatre 0.01 Time: 17.30 to 18.30 Free entry, ticket required.
Patients as Co-Investigators: Redefining Medical ResearchDescriptionThis event is part of the Healing Horizons: Reimagining Healthcare for Everyone public philosophy series. Speakers Prof. Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University, Sweden), Jo Hunt (Uppsala University, online), Harriet Cooper (UEA), and Monica Greco (Bath University) explore the emerging role of patients as active participants in medical research, challenging traditional paradigms and offering unique insights to enhance clinical knowledge. Location: Council Chamber, AHB Date: Thursday 8th May Time: 17.00 Free entry, ticket required.
Gentle Medicine: Rethinking Healthcare in the 21st CenturyDescriptionThis event is part of the Healing Horizons: Reimagining Healthcare for Everyone public philosophy series. Speakers Dr. Fay Dennis (Goldsmith London), Prof. Alex Broadbent (Durham University), and Prof. Elselijn Kingma (KCL) examine the concept of "gentle medicine" as a response to current criticisms of medical science and practice, balancing scientific rigour with patient-centred care. Location: Council Chamber, AHB Date: Thursday 15th May Time: 17.00 Free entry, ticket required.
Visual Pasts, Material Presents, Archival Futures. Postcolonial Temporalities in the Making.DescriptionThis conference aims to bring together current research on visual, material and archival collections and explore the ways in which their materiality is shaped by time and place. Held in museums and archives, objects, natural specimens, human remains, photographs, films, sounds, drawings, documents and more embody the disruption created by missionaries, militaries, colonial officers, scientists, explorers or humble travellers in territories which endured colonisation. Through the act of collecting, classifying, storing and exhibiting, museums, anthropology and imperial politics shaped an ethnographic present in order to dominate colonised peoples, whose own temporalities had no space to exist. This conference will explore how accessing archives and museum collections can enable communities to recover their past and rekindle “alternative stories” as well as disrupt the discourses constructed by Western views.
Reframing AddictionDescriptionThis event is part of the Healing Horizons: Reimagining Healthcare for Everyone public philosophy series. Speakers Raphael Scholl (University of Geneva) and Philip Ball (science writer London) discuss alternatives to the brain disease model of addiction - how can evolutionary perspectives help us understand human vulnerability to substance abuse and addiction; what are the implications of the evolutionary perspective on clinical practice and public policy?
Location: SCVA Date: Thursday 26th May Time: 17.00 Free entry, ticket required.
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