Open lecture series: Bridging Humanities and Medicine for Sustainable Impact

Résumé de la formation

The lecture series is tailored for students and scholars from any discipline eager to explore innovative and deeply interdisciplinary approaches to wide-ranging health issues and complex societal problems.

This online lecture series is designed to highlight the critical interdependencies and synergies between the humanities and medicine. Traditionally seen as separate realms – arts and sciences – this series demonstrates the power of their convergence in addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Featuring distinguished researchers from the Circle U. Universities, this lecture series delves into how the synthesis of perspectives from medicine and the humanities is pivotal in tackling the key focus areas of the Circle U. alliance – climate change, democratic deficits, global health disparities, and the evolving challenges of artificial intelligence.

Programme

Open Online Lectures Programme:

Lecture 1: How can the medical humanities contribute to sustainability and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals ?
Lecture 2: Medical Humanities in medical education: Teaching the ethics of care through cinema
Lecture 3: The lived experience of rare disease recovery
Lecture 4: Accepting uncertainty and transforming medical knowledge into clinical wisdom, the role of the humanities and learning for the spaces between the facts
Lecture 5: Health and Media Literacy in Times of Crises: Learning from Literary and Cultural Studies
Lecture 6: The Translation of Knowledge in Clinics and Homes

Formateurs et formatrices

• Eivind Engebretsen, Professor of medical humanities, University of Oslo, Dean of the Circle U. Open Campus
• Céline Lefève, Professor of medical humanities, Université Paris Cité
• Elise Ricadat, Assoicate Professor in clinical psychology, Université Paris Cité
• Flora Smyth Zahra, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinarity & Innovation Dental Education, King’s College London
• Professor Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Chair and Professor of British Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Vienna
• Anna Louise Skovgaard, medical anthropologist at Aarhus University

Informations pratiques

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