Frankenstein@200 Legacy


Stanford Frankenstein@200 initiative logo was designed by Stanford medical student Ryan Brewster


The drawing on the right was a Kindergarten student's response to Frankentstein during a Frankenstein@200 party. (>>>)

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The 2018 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference will be held at Stanford University from April 20-22, 2018.

A celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through an
exploration of medically-based ethical dilemmas and an examination of the
relevance of Frankenstein in moral imagination today.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Alexander Nemerov
Professor, Art and Art History at Stanford University

Lester Friedman
Professor, Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Alvan Ikoku
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Medicine at Stanford University

Catherine Belling
Associate Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University

 


Hippocrates Cafe
Friday, April 20, 2018



Related Publications

Belling, Catherine. (2018). A Year of Frankenstein. Literature and Medicine 36(2), 261-263. Johns Hopkins University Press

Kavey, A. B. & Friedman, L. D. (2018). Introduction: Chemistry, Disability, and Frankenstein. Literature and Medicine 36(2), 264-268. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Holmes, M. S. (2018). Born This Way: Reading Frankenstein with Disability. Literature and Medicine 36(2), 372-387. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Webster, A. (2018). Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Tale of Biomedical Salvation. Literature and Medicine 36(2), 439-463. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Garland-Thomson, R. (2018). Far from the Tree: Choreographies of Family Obligation in the Ballet of Frankenstein. Literature and Medicine 36(2), 464-494. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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