Though this will likely confirm my "homer" status, I am extremely pleased to present a Call for Papers on Graduate Education in the Medical Humanities: Models & Methods, sponsored by the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. As I am currently a Ph.D student at the Institute, this is a call near and dear to my heart.
Readers may download the flyer here (PDF): Download call_for_papers_education_conference.pdf.
The call is also copied here for convenience:
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) and the 20th anniversary of its Medical Humanities Graduate Program, the IMH is sponsoring a special conference, Graduate Education in Medical Humanities: Models and Methods, which will be held in Galveston in March 2008. The conference will provide an opportunity for faculty and students from throughout the world to come together to explore the assumptions and questions that characterize this evolving interdisciplinary field of graduate education. We invite you to join us to discuss this work and to share models and methods of successful graduate programs in medical humanities.
We are seeking proposals for presentations and working sessions that will explore topics such as the following:
- models of successful graduate programs in medical humanities;
- intellectual rationale and justification for such programs;
- methods of such programs;
- relationships between the historical studia humanitatis and the methods and goals of contemporary medical humanities;
- contributions of particular humanities disciplines, such as history, law, literature, philosophy, religious studies/theology, and art and visual studies;
- clinical connections and contributions;
- relationships between medical humanities and bioethics;
- future prospects for graduate students in medical humanities;
- and future models and methods for graduate education in medical humanities.
Please submit 250-word abstracts by e-mail no later than November 10, 2007.
Abstracts and inquiries should be directed to:
Professor Anne Hudson Jones
Institute for the Medical Humanities
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX
Phone: 409-772-9396
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