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Name: Launch Workshop – The Material Medical Humanities Collective
Start: 2026-12-14T11:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-12-14T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Zoom

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December

2026

Launch Workshop - The Material Medical Humanities Collective

Time: 11:30 am - 2:00 pmLocation: ZoomOrganiser: The Visual & Material LabEvent type Online

This is a call for collaborators to join a new ‘material medical humanities’ research collective led by Durham University and Birkbeck, University of London.

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A brightly-coloured artwork featuring the microscopic detail of a mitochondrial network, a series of oval shapes with yellow dots in the middle

Past events

Artwork by Sofie Layton showing a purple lab coat with screen printed silver shapes against a green painted background.

July

2026

Lab Coat Lunch 5: SOUL PAINT: Where are you feeling?

In this event we'll hear from Sarah Ticho, an artist–researcher and strategist working at the intersection of immersive media, creative health, and healthcare innovation.

May

2026

Lab Coat Lunch 4: Combining 3D bioengineering and arts practice for patient engagement

In this event we'll hear from Giovanni Biglino, a bioengineer trained in the humanities and the arts.

A black-and-white historical engraving showing two men performing an early blood transfusion experiment.

May

2026

Book Launch: Blood, Sweat and Tears by Ruben Verwaal

In this session, Ruben Verwaal is joined by historians and scholars of medical humanities, all of whom apply visual and material methods to analyse fluids in society, culture, and medicine.

April

2026

Lab Coat Lunch 3: After the War – Arts and film practice in hospice care and beyond

In this Lab Coat Lunch talk, Steve Geliot will explore the differences between working as an artist in acute hospital settings and working creatively in ‘end of life’ care.

March

2026

Lab Coat Lunch 2: Maternal Machines and other fantasies of care

Lab Coat Lunches 2026 – A new online event series exploring visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities

February

2026

Lab Coat Lunch 1: Bringing together glass art and tissue engineering to improve cancer care

Lab Coat Lunches 2026 – A new online event series exploring visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities

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February

2025

Materialising Methods

What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine, foregrounding questions of method, practice and ...

Silhouette of a film camera against a white background.

September

2024

Gender and Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image

An exciting one-day symposium at Durham University celebrating the latest work on moving images in the Medical Humanities.

Photograph of James Thompson sat by a window, mug in hand, talking.

July

2024

Care Aesthetics and Movement

A talk by James Thompson (University of Manchester) with a response from Emily Tupper, and a conversation chaired by Fiona Johnstone.

Easel and camera on a platform floating in the sea.

June

2024

Art and the Critical Medical Humanities workshop

A three-day workshop aimed at fostering dialogue, creating connections and activating new entanglements between art-led practices and the critical medical humanities.

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Events

Browse what's on

Launch Workshop - The Material Medical Humanities Collective

Past events

Lab Coat Lunch 5: SOUL PAINT: Where are you feeling?

Lab Coat Lunch 4: Combining 3D bioengineering and arts practice for patient engagement

Book Launch: Blood, Sweat and Tears by Ruben Verwaal

Lab Coat Lunch 3: After the War – Arts and film practice in hospice care and beyond

Lab Coat Lunch 2: Maternal Machines and other fantasies of care

Lab Coat Lunch 1: Bringing together glass art and tissue engineering to improve cancer care

Materialising Methods

Gender and Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image

Care Aesthetics and Movement

Art and the Critical Medical Humanities workshop

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