Forthcoming events

• The University of Hull
• 13 March 2010
• Contact opendays@hull.ac.uk (tel +44 (0)1482 465293)

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/Student/srs/opendays.aspx

• The Hospitium, Museum Gardens, York YO1 7FR
• 15 March 2010
• Contact info@yorksphilsoc.org.uk (tel 01904 656713)

Time: 19:30 - 21:00

Speaker: Dr Rob Newton, Hull York Medical School

This lecture is part of the York Festival of Science and Technology.

Suitable for Adults
Non-members welcome
FREE Admission for Members
Non-Members are kindly asked to make a donation of ?3 on the Door
No Booking Required

For more information contact the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
The Lodge, Museum Gardens, York YO1 7DR
http://web@yorksphilsoc.org.uk

• University of York Biology Lecture Theatre (K018)
• 15 March 2010
• Contact sh768@york.ac.uk (tel 01904 328845)

Dr Veronica Grieneisen
Department of Computational & Systems Biology, John Innes Institute
15 March 2010, 13:15, K018

Details to be confirmed
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/cii/news/seminars.shtml

• York Neuroimaging Centre, York Science Park York YO10 5DG
• 16 March 2010
• Contact reception@ynic.york.ac.uk (tel 01904 435346)

Time: 17:30 and 18:30

This special event offers a fascinating insight into neuroimaging. The open evening begins with an introductory talk providing an introduction to brain imaging, followed by tour of the Centre's scanners.

Two sessions are available, starting at 17:30pm and 18:30 respectively.

Each session lasts approximately 1 hour. Numbers are restricted to 25 per session.

Suitable for Adults
FREE Admission
Booking Required
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• The University of York, Physics Lecture Theatre P/X/001
• 17 March 2010
• Contact emma.edmunds@hyms.ac.uk (tel )

Time: 17:30 - 18:30

Speaker: Professor Janet Darbyshire


We are delighted to be able to welcome Professor Janet Darbyshire, Director of the Medical Research Council's Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), to speak to HYMS staff and students as part of the Academy of Medical Sciences Visiting Lecture Scheme.

Janet, who is also Joint Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network, will talk on the subject of "Challenges to clinical trials today." This is a marvellous opportunity to hear one of the country's most successful clinicians talk about the challenges facing researchers today.

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• University of York Williamson Rooms, Centre for Immunology & Infection, Biology
• 17 March 2010
• Contact sh768@york.ac.uk (tel 01904 328845)

Dr Victor Tybulewicz
School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
17 March 2010, 16:00, Williamson Rooms
'Role of Rac GTPases and their exchange factors in ymphocyte development and function'

Abstract: to be confirmed
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/cii/news/seminars.shtml

• Lindsey Suite, Staff House, University of Hull
• 19 March 2010
• Contact hilary.hamer@hyms.ac.uk (tel )

Launch event of Humber Obesity, Nutrition, Education and Innovation Project.

12:15-15:00

Keynote speaker: Tim Smith, Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency
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• Medical Society Rooms, 23 Stonegate, York
• 26 March 2010
• (tel )

Time: 19:30

Speaker: Dr Mark Howson,York GP and former Professor of Physics, Leeds University.
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• Hull Truck Theatre, 50 Ferensway, Hull HU2 8LB
• 21 - 23 April 2010
• (tel )

This specialist conference has been organised by Professor Peter Dettmar, a leading research scientist from innovative Hull-based company Technostics, along with Professor Alyn Morice, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at HYMS and the University of Hull; Stephen Ell, an ear, nose and throat consultant based at Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust; and Professor Michael Fagan, a specialist in medical and biological engineering from the University of Hull.

The event is being supported by Hull Forward, Hull & East Yorkshire Conferences and the Hull Truck Theatre.

Full story can be found at the link below. Details to follow.
http://www.hull.co.uk/news.asp?PageID=74&NewsID=1017

• University of Hull, Staff House
• 6 - 7 May 2010
• Contact M.Inahara@hull.ac.uk (tel )

This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary set of speakers to look at the experience of bodily vulnerability and consider its implications for the understanding of embodiment and selfhood.

The resources of phenomenology will be put into conversation with accounts of the lived experiences of those living with illness, pain or other kinds of bodily vulnerability. Contributions will be made from, philosophers, health practitioners, medics and others.

Sponsors:

AHRC (as part of: The Concepts of Health Illness and Disease, Research Network

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/courses/philosophy/ahrc_chid_network.shtml)

Faculty of Health University of Hull

Hull York Medical School (HYMS)

Department of Humanities University of Hull



Programme: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/humanities/philosophy/research/centre-for-research-into-embod/workshops-and-conferences/phenomenology-of-ilness-may.aspx

Papers



Fredrik Svenaeus Illness as unhomelike being-in-the world: Heidegger and the phenomenology of medicine



Katherine J. Morris Living the ambiguity of diagnosis: a case study



Matthew Ratcliffe Phenomenology of Depression



Lisa Folkmarson K?ll Pain Embodied in Expressive Space



Havi Carel The Phenomenology of Illness



Deborah Padfield Bodies in Pain (including slides of her work)



Jack Wilson Sartre: illness and the experience of the body



Carol Eastwood Towards a Phenomenology of Endometriosis



Minae Inahara The Sound of Pain: Embodied Subjectivity and Onomatopoeic Expressions in Japanese



Patricia McGettigan Falling: from the perspective of patients



Julie Jomeen Women's lived experience of their pregnant bodies



Michael Gillan Peckitt Limping After Leder and House



Annabel Howe ?I?ve been playing in the house of ages?: Dementia, Advance Decisions and Embodied Experience



Lesley Jones & Robin Bunton Wounded or Warriors , deafness, technology and the body



Diane Pitt The Role of Phenomenology in Clinical Diagnostics: the Experience of Women with Heart Disease



Anthony Wilde Levinas and the Vulnerable Body



Stephen Burwood Torture







For maps and directions:



http://www2.hull.ac.uk/the_university/directions_to_the_university/directions_to_hull.aspx



http://www2.hull.ac.uk/pdf/2D_hullcampus_2009.pdf

To register:



Please email Dr Minae Inahara (M.Inahara@hull.ac.uk) to reserve a place for this workshop



(There is no registration fee.)



Email Contact: M.Inahara@hull.ac.uk
Link: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/humanities/philosophy/research/centre-for-research-into-embod/workshops-and-conferences/phenomenology-of-ilness-may.aspx

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/courses/philosophy/ahrc_chid_network.shtml)

• Medical Society Rooms, 23 Stonegate, York
• 21 May 2010
• (tel )

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• York
• 7 July 2010
• (tel )

http://www.hyms.ac.uk/undergraduate/open-days.aspx

• The University of Hull
• 10 July 2010
• Contact opendays@hull.ac.uk (tel +44 (0)1482 465293)

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/Student/srs/opendays.aspx

• City Hall, Hull
• 13 July 2010
• (tel )

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• York
• 5 October 2010
• (tel )

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• The University of Hull
• 9 October 2010
• Contact opendays@hull.ac.uk (tel +44 (0)1482 465293)

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/Student/srs/opendays.aspx