French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersectionalities
As part of strategic attempts to ‘de-centre’ the medical humanities from its longstanding focus on anglophone cultural contexts, research in Modern Languages has foregrounded the importance of linguistic and cultural sensitivity in analyses of the factors that condition the operation and implications of modern medicine. The particular contribution the French-speaking world has made to the development of a more global medical humanities has recently been outlined in the état présent ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities’ (French Studies 78.2, 2024).
The so-called ‘first wave’ of research at the intersection of French studies and the medical humanities produced an important body of work analysing representations of corporeality and the power dynamics at play in the medical encounter. More recently, the field has begun to engage in a significant theoretical turn, analysing how healthcare is marked by the effects of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, belief systems, histories and structural inequalities. As the medical humanities in a French cultural and linguistic context interacts more explicitly with multidisciplinary and multimodal strategies that decipher and document the factors at stake in the representation of medical experiences, the field is increasingly characterised by intersectional approaches, including with scholarship on the environment, law, post/colonialism, digital humanities and translation.
This conference will showcase the ramifications of innovative approaches in a French cultural and critical context for the broader development of the medical humanities as an interdisciplinary field.
Registration Fees:
Conference registration for non-presenters: £40 (to include lunches, teas/coffees, reception)
Conference speakers: free
PG/ECR Workshop only: free
There will be an optional dinner at TAS on 3rd September with payment made on the night. Please indicate if you would like to attend when registering.
This event is generously supported by the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (Initiative Fund), the Society for French Studies (Workshop Grant), and a QUB Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Initiative Fund.
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