{"id":2443,"date":"2019-06-13T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2019-06-14T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:31:26","slug":"dieter-declercq-secures-funding-for-medical-humanities-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/06\/13\/dieter-declercq-secures-funding-for-medical-humanities-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieter Declercq secures funding for medical humanities conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/assistant-and-associate-lecturers\/declerq.html\">Dr Dieter Declercq<\/a>, Assistant Lecturer in Film and Media in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/\">School of Arts<\/a>, has secured funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/british-aesthetics.org\/\">British Society of Aesthetics<\/a> to organise a conference which aims to stimulate interdisciplinary exchanges between analytic aesthetics and health\/medical humanities. The conference, entitled\u00a0&#8216;British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics and the Medical and Health Humanities&#8217;, will take place from Thursday 6 February to Saturday 8 February 2020, at the University of Kent&#8217;s Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be co-organised by Dieter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/newall.html\">Dr Michael Newall<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/hpa.html\">History of Art<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/shaughnessy.html\">Professor Nicola Shaughnessy<\/a>, Professor of Performance in the Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/drama.html\">Drama and Theatre<\/a>. The conference will explore the contributions of art and aesthetics to medicine, medical education and health care in all its aspects.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote talks will be delivered by <a href=\"http:\/\/sps.columbia.edu\/narrative-medicine\/faculty\/rita-charon\">Professor Rita Charon<\/a> (Columbia University), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/healthsciences\/people\/paul.crawford\">Professor Paul Crawford<\/a> (University of Nottingham),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucknell.edu\/academics\/arts-and-sciences-college-of\/academic-departments-and-programs\/philosophy\/faculty-and-staff\/sheila-lintott\">Professor Sheila Lintott<\/a> (Bucknell University), and <a href=\"https:\/\/uc.academia.edu\/JeneferRobinson\">Professor Jenefer Robinson<\/a> (University of Cincinnati) alongside confirmed responses from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/people\/382\/anderson-julie\">Dr Julie Anderson<\/a> (University of Kent), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/bolaki.html\">Dr Stella Bolaki<\/a> (University of Kent),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/philosophy\/people\/john\/\">Dr Eileen John<\/a> (University of Warwick) and <a href=\"https:\/\/ahc.leeds.ac.uk\/philosophy\/staff\/81\/matthew-kieran\">Professor Matthew Kieran<\/a> (University of Leeds).<\/p>\n<p>Dieter says: &#8216;We are very excited and grateful to the BSA for funding the first conference designed to bring together philosophers of art and scholars in the health\/medical humanities. We are very proud to have such an amazing line-up of world-leading scholars in both fields and we are certain that this event will foster many rewarding exchanges&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>More details, including a call for papers, will be distributed soon. In the meantime, contact Dieter for further information at: <a href=\"mailto:dd324@kent.ac.uk\">dd324@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Dieter Declercq, Assistant Lecturer in Film and Media in the School of Arts, has secured funding from the British Society of Aesthetics to organise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/06\/13\/dieter-declercq-secures-funding-for-medical-humanities-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219075,25563,1123,221729,168423,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}