Médecine et média

Medicine and Media. A gathering of Francophone and Anglophone projects in medicine and the humanities

European Conference

April 7-8, 2016

WELLCOME LIBRARY
183 Euston Rd
London NW1 2BE

MAISON FRANÇAISE
D’OXFORD
2-10 Norham Rd
Oxford OX2 6SE


Thursday, April 7
10:30 ARRIVAL at the Wellcome Library,
183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE

11:00 – 13:00 PRESENTATION of the Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Library innovative programs
ROUNDTABLE on interdisciplinary practices between medicine and the humanities
- Wellcome Trust Grant Advisor
- Alexis ZIMMER, Person-Oriented Medicine
- Jocelyn ARQUEMBOURG and Antoine ANDREMONT, Bacterial resistance to antibiotics: an interdisciplinary approach

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCHBREAK @ WELLCOME
Trip to Oxford from Paddington Station (Departure times: 15:06; 15:22; 15:52 – 1 hour trip)
Luggage deposit and room check-in @ Keble College, OX1 3PG, Oxford

18:00 – 19:30 Maison Française d’Oxford,
2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE

PROJECT PRESENTATION SESSION 1
Chair: Catriona SETH, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, Oxford University
- Alexandre WENGER and Julien KNEBUSCH, The Image of the Poet-Physician
- James KENNAWAY, Fashionable Diseases
- Liliane CAMPOS and Pierre-Louis PATOINE, Literary Organisms
- Berris CHARNLEY and Sally FRAMPTON, Constructing Scientific Communities

19:30 POETRY READING with Tiffany ATKINSON

20:00 BUFFET DINNER

Friday, April 8
9:00 – 10:15 PROJECT PRESENTATION SESSION 2
Roundtable on Databases
Chair: Carle BONNAFOUS-MURAT, President of the University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
- Lauren KASSELL, The Casebook Project
- Christian BONAH, Medfilm
- Elaine LEONG, The Recipe Project
- Patrizia D’ANDREA, CAMELIA

10:15 – 10:45 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 12:30 PROJECT PRESENTATION SESSION 3
Chair: Anne SIMONIN, Maison Française d’Oxford
- Cressida JERVIS READ, Invisible Crises, Neglected Histories: Malaria in Asia c.1900-Present
- John MANTON and Guillaume LACHENAL, MEREAF
- Amelia BONEA and Jennifer WALLIS, Diseases of Modern Life
- Maria de JESUS CABRAL and Marie-France MAMZER, Narrative and Medicine

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:30 – 16:30 METHODOLOGICAL GROUP WORK (5-7 per group) on specific issues. Each group is given a problem (such as sustainability) and raises issues and several ways of dealing with each issue.
- The humanities and other institutions (museums, hospitals,
medical institutions)
- Longevity-sustainability
- Public engagement and outreach
- Career management (group work vs. individual career)
- Working in multilingual environment
- Sources & resources, working with archives in an interdisciplinary context

16:30 – 17:00 TEA BREAK

17:00 – 18:30 FEEDBACK FROM EACH GROUP AND GENERAL DISCUSSION (10 mins per group)
Chair: Sophie VASSET, Université Paris Diderot

20:00 DINNER