Medical Humanities Award Grant
Funded by the Stanford School to Medicine to broaden international connections in Medical Humanities.
WHAT: A 5K grant for a short visit (2 weeks) to cover travel and expenses for a visit to a medical humanities program.
WHEN: April 2025- end of Fall 2025.
WHERE: Medical Humanities Programs in Europe and other countries, including US Programs.
See details below for possible programs to visit, and related programming. We have contacts in these programs who are ready to host you. You may also suggest your own location/program; but, please be in touch with them and get detailed information in advance, as well as make at least one contact who plans to host you, to share with us in your application.
WHO: Graduate students, Clinical Students, Residents, and Fellows at the Stanford School of Medicine.
WHY: To broaden awareness of and connection to Medical Humanities research & programs in other countries and states.
REPORT: After your return, we ask that you do a short report of your visit in the form of a presentation for Stanford students and researchers at an upcoming medical humanities event (such as the Spring Medical Humanities Showcase at the Stanford Humanities Center).
Deadline: March 14, 2025
APPLY: SEED GRANTS
Delacroix on the 25th of April in Athens, Nikias Skapinakis, 1975. Image courtesy of Pedro Ribeiro Simões
Programs to Visit
Durham University, Institute for Medical Humanities. (Durham, UK.)
Activities: Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK.
Submissions due 2/28.25.
Contact: Prof. Angela Woods.
Languages: English.
NOTES: This one the main centers for what is known as the “Critical Medical Humanities” across Europe. They are very well connected internationally.
Universidade de Évora, Sociology of Health and Medicine. (Évora, Portugal.)
Activities: Sociology of Health & Medicine Mid-term Conference, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 11 to 12 June 2025.
Contact: Prof. Ana Patrícia Hilário.
Languages: Portuguese, English.
Link: https://www.rn16midtermconf2025.uevora.pt/page/
NOTES: They are interested in more international collaboration among students.
Sorbonne Université. MA program in Medical Humanities.
Salpêtrière teaching hospital Medical Humanities Program. Hôtel-Dieu Hospital Medical Humanities Program.
(Paris, France.)
Activities: Attending seminars connected to the MA program in Medical Humanities (first two weeks of April). IN FRENCH.
RÉCITHÉRAPIE: ongoing monthly talks and festival on storytelling and health. Upcoming lectures on 12 March, 9 April, 14 May, 9 July. Festival on 11 June. IN FRENCH.
Languages: French
Contacts: Prof. Jean-Cassien Billier (Sorbonne), Dr. Michèle Levy-Soussan (Hôtel-Dieu).
Link: https://humanites-biomedicales.sorbonne-universite.fr/linitiative-humanites-biomedicales
NOTES: Stanford has an ongoing connection with these programs; we have done reciprocal conferences since 2019 and are continuing to exchange ideas and research. Though the activities above are held in French for students and the general public, the researchers themselves speak English and would be able to welcome students in English.
Université de Lorraine, Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences (Medical Humanities connected to philosophy and history of medicine and science). (Metz, France.)
Activities: April 2025 visit by Prof. Aude Bandini, Philosophy, U. of Montreal, teaching a mini course on medical ethics. French Congress in History of Sciences and Techniques with a session on Writing about disease (9-11 April)
Annual CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading, and Medicine based in Ghent, Belgium: https://www.charm.ugent.be/
The CHARM-network consists of a selection of global partners working in the internationally thriving domain of medical and health humanities (MHH). In our post-Covid-times, the new field continues to gain in importance, serving worldwide as the interdisciplinary home of scholars in medicine and nursing, sociologists and psychologists of (mental) health, specialists in health communication.
Conference: Health, diseases and environment: between the global and the local (November 5-6, Nancy, France)
Contact: Prof. Claire Crignon.
Languages: French
Link: https://philo.shs-nancy.univ-lorraine.fr/membre/-claire-crignon
NOTES: Aside from the two conferences/courses, they have ongoing programs connected to the Center for intErdiscipLinary rEsearch and expertiSe on Transitions (CELEST), with work on Transitions in health policies and practices Health policies (confronted with the challenges of societal, environmental and biographical transitions).
Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Linköping University. (Linköping, Sweden.)
Activities: Linköping University Medical Ethics Conference (LIMEC), 12-13 June
Abstracts due March 31, 2025.
Contact: Prof. Kristin Zeiler
Languages: English, Swedish
Links: https://liu.se/en/article/limec
https://liu.se/en/employee/krize91
NOTES: The Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics is extraordinarily interdisciplinary, bringing together medical professionals and researchers who work in sociology, policy, philosophy, ethics, the arts, and the law.
Leuven Centre for Health Humanities (LCH²). (Leuven, Belgium.)
Activities: Disability Film Festival in Leuven, 22-26 April 2025
Lecture series on Health and the Built Environment
PhD seminar talks on 8 and 22 May
Visit with curators from the Vesalius museum on care, medicine, and society, due to open (provisionally) at the end of this year.
Contacts: Prof. Pieter Adriaens, Prof. Joris Vandendriessche
Languages: Dutch/Flemish, English.
Link: https://ghum.kuleuven.be/LCHH/research_seminar_2024-2025
NOTES: This center has a number of different programs and the film festival will have an interesting international scope.