To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month. bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖 @davidbolt13.bsky.social

@katharinemurphy.bsky.social and I are very grateful to @cforsdick.bsky.social for wrapping up our takeover of @the-polyphony.bsky.social and for his generous words about the @readingbodies.bsky.social project 💙

My post is up! Thanks to the editors of The Polyphony and to @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @oliviaglaze.bsky.social for providing a space to discuss how past cultural narratives are shaping our present.

In Part 2 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, @oliviaglaze.bsky.social considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...

In Part 3 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, Nicolás Fernández-Medina examines the Spanish avant-garde’s response to the biomedical sciences through the lens of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s pioneering avant-gardism. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/22/b...

@katharinemurphy.bsky.social introduces the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/20/h...

Happy to share that my piece - 'Languages, Medical Humanities and Policy: Intersections in Research and Practice’ - is out today on @the-polyphony.bsky.social as part of this week's @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover! thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...

Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

As part of our Special Issue, I wrote my first article engaging with Disability Studies & crip theory (eek) and discovered the brilliant work of @sunaura.bsky.social, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril & @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, among others. I couldn’t recommend their work more! 🔗 tinyurl.com/2emhnz7w

Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm

"Incredible Women: Chronic Pain, Credibility, and Gender Bias" 📆 Wednesday 17th Sept, 6.30pm on MS Teams 📢 Dr Eilidh Galbraith discusses the findings of her @abdndivinity.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk research project with a panel of guests. 🔗 DM me for event link or see poster for details!

Delighted to share a news story about our Reading Bodies health resource, The Burnout Booklet, created with @oliviaglaze.bsky.social and illustrated by Hannah Mumby. @readingbodies.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

So excited to share this open-access resource, shaped by real stories of burnout from our creative writing workshops & anthology. Hoping it shows how languages research can make a difference in healthcare spaces!

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism). At:University of Edinburgh Starting: April 2026 Deadline: 2 October 2025

Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙 The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series. #histmed

🎙️ Elena Semino, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University joins host Dr. Joe Bianco to discuss the subtle and surprising ways that language 🗣️ and humor 😂 shape health experiences 💙.

Fantastic to have MADE For Health back on Lancaster University campus this week as part of the Social Enterprise in Residence scheme! MADE For Health are a company whose mission is to transform hospital architecture by putting patients and clinicians at the heart of the design process 🏥❤️

Join us at the British Academy on Tue 24 – Wed 25 June, for a conference exploring ethical and political issues that can arise in the context of communicating about health and health care, bringing together experts in philosophical ethics and health practice. Book your ticket: buff.ly/NsoFDd6

When times are hard Reading helps www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!

I just received my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, feat. a lengthy introduction my @drgavinmiller.bsky.social and I, and a chapter on pregnancy from me. #medicalhumanities #sf #sciencefiction #disabilitystudies

...in a coupla weeks time...

How could narrative medicine support healthcare professionals’ linguistic skills and sense of social belonging? Anna Ovaska and colleagues share their experiences of developing a new narrative medicine reading group model in Finland. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/29/m...

*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & 19CC Bham to explore sensational tales of disease:

Thank you so much to everyone who attended this event last week, and in particular Sarah Moss, @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @laurasalisbury.bsky.social. If you couldn’t attend - fear not! - you can find a recording of the conversation on our website: readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/2025/05/16/w...

@okhromeychuk.bsky.social 'We Are War: On Bearing Witness and Sharing Pain' talk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social 4 June, 5-5pm + reception and book signing @exetercityoflit.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social

@okhromeychuk.bsky.social 'Trigger Warning: A Workshop on Writing Pain' @exeterphoenix.bsky.social 3 June 5-6.30pm @exetercityoflit.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social

Registration for the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions is now open! 🗓️ 24-26 June 2025 (single day tickets available) 📍In-person at Durham University, or online 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-n...

For those very few remaining people who are not yet sick of listening me to talk about my book, I’ve sent in the final revised manuscript!! 📖Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity📖 FORTHCOMING with Edinburgh University Press early 2026!

Happening next Wednesday - everyone welcome!

Join our next Media and Epidemics research seminar on Tuesday 6th May at 10am (Central European Time) when @M_Zdrodowska will discuss ‘The Mediated Practices and Narratives of Care: Artists and Activists Under Lockdown’ about #COVID19 and #disabilitystudies. Scan QR code for Zoom link ⬇️ #medhums

In the latest of our new practice research series, Alec Finlay explores the issue of belief in contested chronic illness through poetic subversion of NHS fatigue questionnaires. thepolyphony.org/2025/04/24/p...

My @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Jina B Kim for Care at the End of the World (@dukepress.bsky.social) is live. So excited for this book and its beautiful provocations to be out! Episode Page: newbooksnetwork.com/care-at-the-... Transcript: d8q167itd1z7d.cloudfront.net/craft/NBN_Ki...

Join us for the final public event of the Reading Bodies project, where @katharinemurphy.bsky.social will be in conversation online with bestselling author Sarah Moss, discussing all things writing, health and the body. Our Q&A will be chaired by @laurasalisbury.bsky.social 📣💬 shorturl.at/eSnpY

Looking forward to presenting alongside @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @petehr.bsky.social and Álvaro Gonzalez Montero for our panel 'Cultural Portrayals of Illnesses and Disabilities in the Modern Luso-Hispanic World’. Taking place on April 8 @ 9.00 - come along! 💬🩺

🚀 Delighted to announce the publication of our new #MedHums101 brochure: ‘What is Medical Humanities?’ We hope it sparks your imagination, inspires your curiosity & encourages you to engage in our vibrant interdisciplinary field! tinyurl.com/what-is-med-...

If you're interested in public engagement, check out @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my interview with the Public Engagement with Research (PER) team at @exeter.ac.uk, where we share our insights and top tips from our recent work on the Reading Bodies project: tinyurl.com/3mbtnyde 💬

CSMBR - EDWARD WORTH JOINT CONFERENCE: 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 (𝟏𝟑𝟓𝟎-𝟏𝟕𝟓𝟎): 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬, 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 Registrations Opening Soon: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../medical-... #CSMBR #EdwardWorthLibrary #Medicaleducation #Universities #Canon #Europe #KnowledgeTransfer #medicine

CFP: The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures. I'm delighted to share the call for papers for the @hematopolitics.bsky.social symposium this June at the wonderful @thackraymuseum.bsky.social in Leeds! Please share widely!

🦠 Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century, a free and online one-day interdisciplinary workshop. Thursday 1 May, 9.00am – 5.00pm (Central European Time). For the full program and to register for the workshop, visit: cn-csi.com/event/contag...

New this week on SYNAPSIS: Trishala Dutta writes on fungi as a mode of thinking about disability, ethics, and collective futures in the midst of capitalist ruination. Check out this fascinating piece here ⬇️ medicalhealthhumanities.com/2025/02/24/f...

Our first project blog! What does Cripping Breath mean to us? Meet the team www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

The latest episode of the Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health podcast has me and the excellent Stuart Murray talking about uncertainty - as a critical approach, in #MedHums, and in HE more broadly. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/con...

🌍 Global Medical Humanities: What next for the humanities in health research? An online roundtable on 7 March, 09.30–10.30 GMT exploring trends in medical humanities research now and in the future. 👉 Find out more and reserve your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-med... #DUglobalweek #medhums

This is the book series of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social Many of these titles are open access books free for anyone to read. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/socia...

Zeena Feldman reviews Meg-John Barker's Queer Creative Health zine series, produced for and with @queercircle.bsky.social: "zines are everything academia isn’t. They’re democratic. They’re radical. And they most definitely are not interested in respectability". thepolyphony.org/2025/02/20/q...

Job klaxons! We are recruiting three postdoc Fellows to work on the global histories of #HIV and #AIDS #activism in #India; #South #Africa; #Turkey and the Middle East. Thanks to generous funding from the UKRI. You may find the links in the comments below.

Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...

I’ve created a Starter Pack for anyone interested in the Queer Medical Humanities 🩺🏥🏳️‍🌈 - interdisciplinary approaches to queer and LGBTQIA+ healthcare across the humanities, arts, social sciences and medicine go.bsky.app/5LB1Drg

Are you looking to connect into conversations across the medical humanities? Do you want to learn more about the latest concepts, writers, projects and people animating the field? The Polyphony has arrived in BlueSky 🎉🦋🐟 Please join us & share widely @the-polyphony.bsky.social #MedHums