Event archive
Missed one of our events? Not to worry! Many of our sessions are recorded and can be accessed below.
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Academic Year 2025-2026
Lab Coat Lunch 5: SOUL PAINT: What are you feeling?
8 July 2026
The fifth of the ‘Lab Coat Lunch’ series, hosted by the Visual and Material Lab, features creator and co-director of SOUL PAINT Sarah Ticho discussing how the immersive reinterpretation of arts and health can support reflection, insight, and shared understanding.
Lab Coat Lunch 4: Combining 3D bioengineering and arts practice for patient engagement
13 May 2026
In the fourth of the ‘Lab Coat Lunches’ series, hosted by the Visual and Material Lab, bioengineer Giovanni Biglino discusses how three-dimensional (3D) technologies are revolutionising the medical landscape, from 3D-printed organs models to virtual reality simulations of surgical procedures.
Book Launch: Blood, Sweat and Tears by Ruben Verwaal
11 May 2026
In the launch of Blood, Sweat and Tears: A History of Bodily Fluids, 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. The panel includes Amanda Herbert, Claire Turner, and Harriet Barratt.
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Lab Coat Lunch 3: After the War – Arts and film practice in hospice care
29 April 2026
The third of the ‘Lab Coat Lunches’ series, hosted by the Visual and Material Lab, features Steve Geliot‘s exploration of the differences between working as an artist in acute hospital settings and working creatively in ‘end of life’ care.
Image credit on video slide: ‘Glittering Landscapes’ by Steve Geliot at St Wilfrid’s Hospice
Lab Coat Lunch 2: Maternal Machines and other fantasies of care
25 March 2026
In the second of the ‘Lab Coat Lunches’ series, hosted by the Visual and Material Lab, Paulina Yurman presents the visual and material methods at the heart of her project Maternal Machines, adopting speculative design, drawing, making and participatory workshops to explore understandings of health and care.
Image credit on video slide: Paulina Yurman’s art for the Maternal Machines project.
Lab Coat Lunch 1: Bringing together glass art and tissue engineering to improve cancer care
4 February 2026
The first of the ‘Lab Coat Lunches’ series, hosted by the Visual and Material Lab, features Matt Durran discussing his collaboration with the Royal Free Hospital in London, bringing together modern technologies and traditional craft techniques.
Image credit on video slide: Matt Durran’s bespoke glass moulds for cancer patients at the Royal Free Hospital
Materialising Methods Symposium Keynote: Art, Science, and the Politics of Methods
20 February 2025
Keynote delivered at the Materialising Methods symposium, hosted by the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Dr Hannah Rogers explores how the tools of Science and Technology Studies (STS) can provide critical insights into art and science projects, highlighting the practices of these knowledge-making communities as discussed in her book Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022).