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Working with people to reduce health risks from toxic exposure An interdisciplinary team of researchers from four South African universities are looking for a highly skilled postdoctoral candidate to join our research project titled “Health impacts on children living near an accidental release of pesticides near Durban, South Africa”. This...
The symposium is an extension of the ideas put forward through the edited collection of works presented in the book Bodies of Knowledge: Childhoods in Health and Affliction (2021) by Efua Prah and Susan Levine. The symposium aims to continue the discussion about young people, adolescents, and childhoods across varied...
Join us for the concluding event of Season Three of Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health with: Dr Chisomo Kalinga (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Carla Tsampiras (University of Cape Town) on Thursday 16 June at 4:00pm - 5:00pm BST (online)
Led by Angela Woods (Director) and Ben Alderson-Day (Co-director), the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) will tackle intellectual and practical barriers – of diversity, connection, risk, evidence and scale – faced in medical humanities research.
A weekly seminar hosted by the University of Johannesburg's Departments of Sociology, Anthropology and Development Studies.
The Call for Papers for Critical: NNMHR Congress 2023 has now gone live.
The Call for Papers for Critical: NNMHR Congress 2023 has now gone live.
This event is the first of five events that takes place annually, once in each of the 5 countries that are part of the Re-imagining Reproduction: Making babies, making kin and citizens in Africa project. The keynote speakers will discuss the idea of whether there is a need to re-imagine...
During the first quarter of 2021 UGHE institutionalized Hamwe Festival and other arts in health activities, that transitioned from project in incubation to a university department. To support the new department in the achievement of its mission, UGHE will put a board of external advisors in place. The role of...
Critical Food Studies together with the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN) will be hosting the Virtual Humanities Conference on the dates 17 – 19 November 2021. This virtual conference seeks to draw innovative humanities and creative work together...
