MEDICAL HUMANITIES TERM CARD HILARY TERM 2026

MEDICAL HUMANITIES TERM CARD HT 2026

REGULAR TERMLY EVENTS

Weekly throughout the term

DPhil and Early Career Medical Humanities Researchers writing group

Co-convened by Yuxin Peng and Gordon Barrett
More details: https://torch.web.ox.ac.uk/event/medical-humanities-early-career-and-dphil-writing-group-mt2025

10^th February and 3^rd March, 5.30-7pm, SR 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

The Boundaries of Humanity Discussion Group

Convened by Andrew Moeller

• 10^th February: Mass Automation and Universal Basic Income with Marius Ostrowski
• 3^rd March: Life Extension with John K. Davis

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://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/health-and-sts-breakfast-reading-group

HILARY 2026 EVENTS

Thursday 5^th February, 5-6.30pm, Reuben College (Lecture Theatre)

Roundtable

God and Silicon Valley: The Place of Religion in the Development of AI
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/a-discussion-on-the-desirability-of-mass-automation-and-universal-basic-income-with-marius-ost

Friday 20^th February, 9.30-10.45am, Learning Centre (00.018), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Roundtable

The Valley Children: How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics

More details: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-valley-children-how-collaborative-creative-practice-can-help-us-make-sense-of-predictive-g

Thursday 26^th February, 7.15pm, Uehiro Oxford Institute (Suite 9)

Roundtable

An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing

More details:: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/an-interfaith-discussion-on-the-ethics-of-preimplantation-genetic-testing

Friday 27^th February, 3-4.30pm, Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Workshop

Music and the Medical Humanities
More details: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/music-and-the-medical-humanities

Friday 6^th March, 3.30-5pm, SR 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Book talk

Susannah Wilson (Warwick):

Unquiet Mothers: Violence, Care, and Maternal Ambivalence in 19^thCentury France

More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/unquiet-mothers-violence-care-and-maternal-ambivalence-in-19th-century-france

Friday 6^th March, 5pm, Tsuzuki Theatre, St Anne’s College

“Immunity and Humanities” Lecture

Elena Conis (Berkeley):

Contextualising the Modern Era of Vaccination

Launch of the “Immunity and the Humanities” Program
More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-not-vaccinate-some-historical-answers

Wednesday 11^th March, 3.30-4.30pm, Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Marlene Goldman (University of Toronto):

When the Medical Contract Meets Performance’s Imaginative Contract: Introducing Medicine as Theatre: Theatre as Medicine

Introduction of new co-edited volume, Medicine as Theatre: Theatre as Medicine.

More details: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/when-the-medical-contract-meets-performances-imaginative-contract-introducing-medicine-as-thea

Tuesday 28^th April, 5.30-7pm, Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Panel Discussion

Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicine

More details: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/healing-in-a-technological-age-spirituality-religion-and-the-practice-of-medicine

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