Interdisciplinary perspectives on health through the Arts and Humanities
Over recent decades, our understandings of health and wellbeing have increasingly shifted from the ‘individualised’ and ‘medicalised’ view that dominated at the turn of the twentieth century, towards a more holistic approach, giving thought to how an individual’s environment can also impact and shape their health and wellbeing, whether at a personal, local, or global level.
This one-day conference is hosted by the University of Nottingham Health Humanities Early Bird Researcher Group and Midlands4Cities. It aims to bring together postgraduates and early career researchers from a wide range of disciplines across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences to discuss and explore the multifaceted relationship between our health and environment. We are therefore particularly keen to receive papers which investigate or reveal how physical, mental, emotional, and social health is intrinsically entwined with our wider material, physical, social, cultural, natural, and political environments.
Potential themes for papers might include, but are not limited to:
- The impact of Climate Change on people's health
- Feminist movements and health
- Historical perspectives on health
- Representations of health in literature and media (written, visual, film etc.)
- Communicating health to the public
- Health Humanities Early Bird Researcher Group
As well as exploring the relationship between health and environment, we are also eager for the conference to facilitate networking and the development of connections between researchers across the Health Humanities. We therefore invite all prospective attendees, if they so wish, to produce a poster on their research for exhibition and circulation at the conference. These could showcase research into any aspect of health, wellbeing, and healthcare in the Arts and Humanities, as well as projects that seek to explore how the arts and humanities can facilitate practical improvements in health and wellbeing.
For more information on Health Humanities at Nottingham, please visit Nottingham Health Humanities