TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers
For 2025, our theme is TONGUES: Medical Humanities Across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers.
This workshop features an exciting array of papers, interventions and creative sessions, organised into 27 panels and sessions over three days. Papers will be presented in a range of languages, and automatic live translation will be provided. The workshop will take place online, using Microsoft Teams.
We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be:
Professor Steven Wilson (Queens University Belfast), The “Language Worlds” of Health and Illness
Professor Nandini Bhattacharya (University of Houston), Medicine and Its Alternatives in the Global South
Sophie Guingouain (Manchester Metropolitan University), The obvious and not-so-obvious challenges when approaching medical translation
The congress is free to attend, but registration is required. Please use this link to sign up for the congress (this will enable us to send you links to the individual congress sessions, as well as any updates to the programme): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tongues-medical-humanities-across-linguistic-and-cultural-frontiers-tickets-1336592727829