How are health and illness socially constructed? What role do subjective negotiations of age(ing) and care play in scientific and social debates about health? And how can artistic representations and lived experiences contribute to rethinking these questions?
Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary field of research at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, health sciences, and medical theory. This lecture series, part of the Master's Module+ Health Humanities at the University of Graz, invites participants to understand health and illness beyond clinical and medical categories and to consider them in their social, cultural and political complexity.
Speakers:
Elisabeth Medicus, Erin Gentry Lamb, Anita Wohlmann, Ulla Kriebernegg, Martina Zimmermann, Patrick Schuchter, Alekszandra Rokvity, Garry Barker, Katja Heitmann, Iza Kavedžija, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, Peter Goggin, Amelia DeFalco, Christoph Singer, Margret Jäger
Further information can be found here.
The lecture series is supported by the research network "Heterogeneity and Cohesion" and the GEWI focus area “Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics.”
First Session:
Introduction to the CIRAC Health Humanities Lectures
Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 5:00–6:30 p.m. in HS 47.02, Heinrichstraße 78A