Medicine and Literature Conference 2011 - Reminder
CONTAGIONISM AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN MEDICINE AND LITERATURE BETWEEN
1880 and 1933.
25 - 27 August 2011,
The Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University.
Registration is still open for this Wellcome funded international conference, bringing together scholars working on the interface of medicine and literature to discuss the theme of contagionism and contagious diseases between 1880 and 1933.
Organised by Dr Thomas Rütten (Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University) and Dr Martina King (Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Glasgow University).
The Conference will address three main themes:
* Construction of Key Diseases
The way in which infectious diseases are caught in medical, philosophical and literary discourses around 1900.
* Infection as Metaphor
The development, around 1900, of 'infection' and 'contamination' into powerful metaphors laced with a wide range of political, imperialist and colonialist implications.
* Narrativity
The narrative potential of bacteriology and infectiology in popular depictions, raising issues of poeticity and genre, along with questions as to the suitability of such narratives for fictional worlds.
Registration is open until 9 August 2011. For more information about the conference and to register for a place, please visit:
If you have any questions, please contact the organisers: Dr Thomas Rütten (thomas.rutten@ncl.ac.uk) and Dr Martina King (Martina.King@t-online.de), or Centre Administrator Laura Cresser (laura.cresser@ncl.ac.uk).
Kindest regards
Laura Cresser
Centre Administrator,
Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, School of Historical Studies, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU
Email: laura.cresser@ncl.ac.uk
Tel.:0191 222 6542
Office Hours:
Monday 09:00-15:30 / Wednesday 09:00-15:00 / Friday 09:00-12:30