MEDICAL HUMANITIES TERM CARD TRINITY TERM 2026
MEDICAL HUMANITIES TERM CARD TT 26
TRINITY ‘26 EVENTS
Tuesday 28th April, 5.30-7pm, SR 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Roundtable
Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicine
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/healing-in-a-technological-age-spirituality-religion-and-the-practice-of-medicine
Friday 8th May, 3-5pm, SR 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Seminar
Speaker: Helen Scot-Fordman (UCL) Commentator: Joe Gugh (Oxford)
Understanding Symptoms: Diagnosis, Cure, and Bodily Reintegration
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/understanding-symptoms-diagnosis-cure-and-bodily-reintegration
Monday 11th May, 1:45-3:45pm, SR 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Workshop
Faith, Culture, and Public Health: Translating Religious and Cultural Practices into Infectious Disease Prevention
Monday 18th May, 1-3pm, SR 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Seminar
Speaker: Naz Gün (Centre Georg Simmel, France). Commentator: Jonathan Price (Oxford)
The Integrity of the Human Species: Comparative Legal Perspectives
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-integrity-of-the-human-species-comparative-legal-perspectives
Thursday 21st May, 2.30-4pm, Learning C., Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Workshop
The Medical Humanities Meet Medical Students
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-medical-humanities-meet-medical-students
Tuesday 9th June, 3-5pm, Venue to be announced
Workshop
Medical Humanities – Global Health Glossary - Equity
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medical-humanities-global-health-glossary-equity
Thursday 11th June, 2-6pm, SR 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Workshop
Medical Detachment: Past and Present
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medical-detachment-past-and-present
Thursday 11th June, 5.30pm, The Ultimate Picture Palace, Jeune Street, Cowley Road
Film screening and panel discussion
Ethics In Film presents: Gattaca (15)
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/ethics-in-film-presents-gattaca-15
Thursday 18th – Friday 19th June, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
DPhil and ECR Workshop
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/objectivity-and-subjectivity-in-medicine
This event comes with a Call for Abstracts: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for-abstracts-objectivity-and-subjectivity-in-medicine
Friday 26th June, 2.30-4pm, Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Seminar - Immunity and the Humanities Program
Speaker: Maebh Long (Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Otago)
Shielding Power: Early Formulations of the Immune Self
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/shielding-power-early-formulations-of-the-immune-self
Monday 6th – Tuesday 7th July, SR 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Workshop
Plague in the Nineteenth Century: Epidemiological and Epistemological Connections
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/plague-in-the-nineteenth-century-epidemiological-and-epistemological-connections
REGULAR TERMLY EVENTS
Weekly on Fridays throughout the term (except for week 2)
DPhil and Early Career Medical Humanities Researchers writing group
Co-convened by Yuxin Peng and Gordon Barrett
More details: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medical-humanities-early-career-and-dphil-writing-group-ht2026
Tuesday 12th May, 5.30-7pm, Online
The Boundaries of Humanity Discussion Group
Convened by Andrew Moeller
12th May: Should We Choose Our Children? Preimplantation Genetic Testing in an Age of Human Enhancement
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-boundaries-of-humanity-discussion-group
Last Tuesday of each month, SR 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and online
Health and STS Reading Group
Convened by Utsa Bose and Hannah Shrader
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/health-and-sts-breakfast-reading-group
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