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Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · 22d

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

Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 22d

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

Contents | Journal of Romance Studies 25, 3

This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 22d

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

Contents | Journal of Romance Studies 25, 3

This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Katie Cross @drkatiecross.bsky.social · 27d

"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!

A poster advertising the webinar. Text reads: "Why are women's symptoms so often dismissed, misdiagnosed, or disbelieved? This webinar explores the intersection of chronic illness, gender bias, and the credibility gap in healthcare. Drawing on research from her upcoming book, Dr Eilidh Galbraith examines how structural inequalities and medical misogyny shape diagnostic practices, clinical listening, and the ethics of care. Through shared lived experience with panelists Charli Clement, author of "All tangled up in autism and chronic illness," Natalie Busari, founder of "the Nerve of my MS" and Tanya Marlow, speaker and author of "Those who Wait" (2017), this session invites participants to reflect on what it means to be heard and to be believed in a system that too often fails those in pain."

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Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Language scholars produce illustrated health booklet on burnout

An illustrated booklet designed to help people talk about burnout and related feelings of stress and fatigue has been published by modern language scholars. The Burnout Booklet: A Health Resource for ...

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Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 28d

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!

Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Language scholars produce illustrated health booklet on burnout

An illustrated booklet designed to help people talk about burnout and related feelings of stress and fatigue has been published by modern language scholars. The Burnout Booklet: A Health Resource for ...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Medicine without Doctors @medicinewithoutdoctors.org · Aug 26

🚨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

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact @bgstorytelling.bsky.social · Aug 18

🎙️ 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 💙.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 🏥❤️

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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David Kopacz, MD @drkopacz.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy

"Bibliotherapy" has been soaring in popularity as a means of improving people's wellbeing. But getting it right depends on the book, and the person.

www.bbc.com

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Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · Jun 16

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!

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Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

A copy of the book The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · May 20

...in a coupla weeks time...

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · May 29

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...

Toward Multilingual Narrative Medicine

How could narrative medicine support healthcare professionals’ linguistic skills and sense of social belonging? Anna Ovaska, Sonja Sulkava, Viola Parente-Čapková and Riitta Jytilä share their exper…

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · May 15

*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:

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Reading Bodies Multilingual Network @readingbodies.bsky.social · May 16

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...

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Hugh Roberts @hughgaroberts.bsky.social · May 12

@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

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Hugh Roberts @hughgaroberts.bsky.social · May 12

@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

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · May 7

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...

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · May 7

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!

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Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · Apr 28

Happening next Wednesday - everyone welcome!

Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Apr 24

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...

Practice Research and Chronic Illness: ‘Fatigue Questionnaires’

Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.

thepolyphony.org

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