Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities

9.00 – 9.20 Registration

9.20 – 9.30 Welcome – Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

9.30 – 10.30 Keynote: Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku, Finland), ‘Counter-Narrating Cancer’Chair: Sarah De Mul (Open Universiteit)

10.30 – 11:00 Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Panel 1: Auto/ethnographic Tools and Scripts
Chair: Andries Hiskes (Universiteit voor Humanistiek en De Haagse Hogeschool)
Femke van Hout (Tilburg University), ‘Chronicling the Chronic – A Creative Approach to Narrating the Ongoingness of Chronic Pain’
Cato Denissen (Universiteit Antwerpen), ‘Visualizing Voices: The Impact of Language Portraits on Social Inclusion for People with Physical Disabilities’
Tess Casher (University of Oxford), ‘Did I Stutter?’
Emma Ettinger (University of Glasgow), ‘(Re)Staging Neurodiverse Sibling Relationships: Defining an Auto/Ethnographic Methodology in Disability Studies and Practice-Research’

12.30 – 13.25 Lunch

13.25 – 14.40 Panel 2: Sensory States and Contested Sites
Chair: Nadia de Vries (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)
Chiara Robbiano (Universiteit Utrecht), ‘“Seeing peach blossoms— eyes utterly overwhelmed”: Dōgen’s and Autistic Sensory Stories’
Sabina Dosani (University of East Anglia), ‘Products of Conception, Imaging & Imagining the Maternal Foetal Relationship’
Noa Roei and Simone Stergioula (Universiteit van Amsterdam), ‘Sensory Mapping in Emergency Care: Notes Towards Caring Research Methodologies’

14.40 – 15.25 Panel 3: Editing the Health Humanities
Chair: Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universeit Brussel)
FRAME editors (Universiteit Utrecht), ‘On Editing FRAME’s Medical Humanities Special Issue’
Colleen Derkatch (Texas Christian University), ‘What Does it Mean to Write the Health Humanities? The Role of the Founding Series Editors for John Hopkins University Press’s Health Humanities Series’

15.25 – 15.45 Coffee

15.45 – 17.15 Panel 4: Artistic Affordances and Archival Assemblages
Chair: Mia You (Universiteit Utrecht and Sandberg Instituut).
Fiona Johnstone (Durham University), ‘Critical Interlopers: Artists as Researchers in the Health Humanities’
Emilia Nielsen (York University, Toronto), ‘Creative-Critical Writing as Method and Research-Creation as Methodology in the Health Humanities?’Charlotte Roberts (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London), ‘Notes are Doorways’
Ruth Clemens (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) and Scout Tzofiya Bolton, ‘Poeting the Clinical Archive: A Dialogue’