This conference aims to place Medical Humanities as a vibrant field of enquiry firmly onto the scholarly agenda in South Africa. To this end, it hopes to draw local scholars and practitioners working in this area into conversation with one another and with international colleagues, whose research is located within established medical humanities projects.
The Medical Humanities research group at WiSER invites abstracts of up to 500 words for papers that speak to its broad, inclusive theme of 'Body Knowledge'. It welcomes submissions from scholars and practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines, including the arts, literature, film, sociology, anthropology, history, medicine, philosophy, ethics and psychology.
In addition to panel sessions, it is planning a public event that will draw in a wider Johannesburg audience, as well as an art exhibition and film screening.
20-minute scholarly papers might address, but are not limited to the following:
Abstracts of up to 500 words, together with a brief biography of 250 words, should be submitted to az.ca.stiw@reseN.eelhsA or az.gro.snrub@htac. For more information, go to http://wiserweb.wits.ac.za/event/call-papers-body-knowledge-medicine-and-humanities-conversation.