Dr Keren Hammerschlag, Senior Lecturer, Art History and Curatorship, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, is co-hosting a one-day symposium, 'Bodies In and Out of Place: New Perspectives in the Critical Medical and Health Humanities.'

This symposium will showcase innovative work being undertaken in the critical medical humanities at the ANU and beyond. The event will feature a keynote address from Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland), whose work on the history of science, technology and medicine, as well as on collaboration between the arts and sciences has been ground-breaking in and beyond Australia. The program includes an interdisciplinary roundtable featuring scholars from medicine, anthropology, literature, screen studies and health care. We aim to showcase the wide-ranging projects ANU is currently exploring and open up new avenues for conversation and collaboration across campus, around Australia, and internationally.

Co-organisers: Dr Katharina Bonzel (Katharina.Bonzel@anu.edu.au), (Screen Studies, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, ANU). Dr Claire Hansen (Claire.Hansen@anu.edu.au), (English, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, ANU)

Keynote: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland)

Participants: Associate Professor Alison Behie (Head of School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU)
Dr Katherine Carroll (Sociology, ANU)
Dr Mary Dahm (ARC DECRA Fellow, Institute for Communication in Health Care, ANU)
Dr Jane Desborough (ARC DECRA Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU)
Lucy Irvine (Lecturer, School of Art & Design, ANU)
Dr Rebecca Mayo (Lecturer, School of Art &  Design, ANU)
Dr Brett Scholz (Senior Research Fellow, ANU Medical School)
Professor Carolyn Strange (Head, School of History, ANU)
Dr Michelle Barrett (ANU Medical School)
Dr Michael Stevens (Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW)
Dr Bríd Phillips (Health Humanities, UWA)