An initiative of the CHCI Medical Humanities Network Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
Date: Monday 29th June 2015
Location: Old Committee Room, King’s Building, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
The Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London, would like to invite you to our second workshop on medical humanities and ageing. We are one of the six CHCI member centres and institutes working on a project to further the development of medical humanities as a subject of study: each partnering centre conducts specific research on ageing, undergirded by collaborative reflection on issues of evidence, value, and evaluation.
Programme:
10:00 – 10.30: Welcome
10:30 – 11:30: Panel: Reflections on Old Age
Dr Claire Hilton, Sauerkraut and African Violets: the Art of Old Age Psychiatry
Dr Elizabeth Barry, ‘Narrower and Narrower would her Bed Be’: Woolf, Beauvoir and the Change of Life
11:30 – 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00: Panel: Stories from the End of Life
Dr Columba Quigley, How We Die: Palliative Care and an Ageing Society
Dr Maria Vaccarella, Narrating Decay
13:00 – 13:30: Concluding remarks
Seating is limited, so if you would like to attend, please contact Dr Maria Vaccarella (maria.vaccarella@kcl.ac.uk) by Monday 15th June 2015
Details and podcasts of our first workshop on Medical Humanities and Ageing can be found here
Humanities and Health 
Hi I am not clear when this workshop is 6th June or 29th June? Geraldine Mason
It’s on the 29th June! Thanks very much for spotting the typo, Geraldine!