Health and Welfare Research Group: a one-day symposium
Friday 13 June 2008
CRASSH
Call for papers deadline 11 May 2008
This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together researchers working on diverse aspects of health and welfare. The one-day workshop organised by the Health and Welfare Research Group is designed to showcase ongoing research by postgraduate and early research fellows in Cambridge. It attempts to promote academic exchange and to encourage future collaboration.
The Health and Welfare Research Group is a new graduate-faculty research group at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). From an interdisciplinary perspective, the group explores the malleable and sometimes recursive nature of knowledge about health, disease, and society. The symposium aims to use this comparative approach to focus on the construction and conceptualisation of human and social well-being in diverse historical periods and geographical areas. Discussion of the impact of these ideas on the practice of healthcare and the implementation of welfare policy is particularly encouraged.
The symposium will focus on three themes - 'Classification', 'Identity' and 'The Body'. These strands have been the focus of the seminar programme during the academic year 2007-08, which has encouraged interchange between researchers not just from arts, humanities and social science faculties, but also from scientific and medical backgrounds. A keynote lecture by Professor Joanna Bourke, of Birkbeck, University of London, will draw these themes together at the workshop.
We therefore invite proposals for papers from postgraduate and early career researchers from any disciplinary background that address one or more aspect of these themes. Please send a title, short abstract, and details of institutional affiliation to the convenors at healthandwelfare@CRASSH. cam.ac.uk by 11 May 2008.
Organising Committee
* Bonnie Evans (HPS)
* Julia Moses (History)
* Sian Pooley (History)
Please contact the convenors if you have any queries about the Symposium or future events organised by the Health and Welfare Research Group.
Advisors
* John Forrester (HPS)
* Simon Szreter (History)
For further details, see the Health and Welfare Group's page
