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CALL FOR PAPERS
Health and Welfare Research Group Annual Symposium, Wednesday 16th June 2010
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge
This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together researchers working on
diverse aspects of health and welfare. The one-day workshop is designed to
showcase on-going research by postgraduates and early career researchers,
in order to promote academic exchange and future collaboration. Havi Carel,
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England and
author of 'Illness' (2008), will give a keynote address.
The Health and Welfare Research Group is a graduate-faculty research group
at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH). From an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, the group
studies the construction and conceptualisation of human and social
well-being in diverse historical periods and geographical areas. The Group
also considers the impact of these ideas on the contemporary practice of
healthcare and the implementation of welfare policy.
The Symposium will focus on the three themes which have been explored in
the Health and Welfare programme of reading groups and seminars for
2009-10. These are: war, industry and medicine; bodily excess; and global
health and wealth. We welcome proposals for papers or posters from
researchers working in any discipline that addresses one or more aspect of
these themes. Please send a title, short abstract (no more than 150 words),
and details of institutional affiliation to [log in to unmask] by
Monday 3 May 2010.
For further details of the Group, see
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/33/health--welfare.htm.
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